You're still a lifesaver, 7 years later. And I still spit my drink at 'Thank you achievement!"

8 minutes to finally explain that its the width of two of the long parks next to each other.

it took you 12min to say "use the parks" but its a good tip, i like it. Thank you.

Once you have laid down the parks it is important to make sure your roads are at an exact 90 degree angel. Since the space between buildings is minimal, the slightest inward curve will mess up the grid and prevent one side from building larger buildings. If you want to be sure, line both sides of the block with parks. If both sides fit in you know you did it right.

This is by far the most helpful video demystifying the large buildings!

Thank you! I'm a new player to SC5 and I thought I understood the right line but wasn't 100% sure. You cleared it up and showed me exactly what I wanted to know. I think Maxis actually took a step back with clear zoning visuals vs. SC4 though...

Very useful, I knew I was on the right tracks using parks to space for me but was using the wrong sized parks. Perfect spacing always takes up most of my time

Thank you for this explanation... i started to build my city on SImCity 4 principals and i got whole area covered and nowhere to build anymore,this 1 helped a lot!

I watched this video around the time it was uploaded. I still play the game and just came back to re-learn this tactic. thanks man

This is not exactly what I was looking for but this was IMMENSELY helpful. Thanks a lot.

Thanks, I was struggling with road congestion and density, this resolves it!

Learned so much from this video. Thanks, man. Probably will start a new region due to this tip and trying get better at processor, PC, and TV production. Just sucks not knowing exactly how much space is needed for trade, utilities, tourism, etc. when dealing with such small cityscapes.

he: "and you can see that the buildings are..." I: "burning to the ground?" he: "...perfectly spaced." I: "Well, yeah I guess that too."

I have found that if you go to exactly the end of the second park to start the second road, you will NOT get back to back high density. One side will be stuck with med density. You need to leave just a little bit extra room to ensure you get back to back. Excellent idea, though. Thanks for sharing.

Fabulous video. Changed my approach completely.

Ignoring the guidelines is the most useful tip for this version of Simcity and the most counter-intuitive thing they could've done

Great video and explanation. Will be using this in my next game, thanks for posting!

Great tutorial, really helped me, Thank you.

Clever observation. .. Very helpful for these tiny maps. Thanks

Thx man :) it was so difficult to get it right.

With square blocks you can set up one, then create more roads using the square road tool (hold shift to lock it square) and quickly replicate the blocks. I like it. It isn't really necessary to have high density roads on all four sides, just the 2 opposing sides the buildings will front. So if you make the other 2 streets low density then you will get stop signs instead of lights, which I would think will help traffic quite a bit.

This a good guide. Thanks man even 10 years later im still learning about this great game. shame that EA will no longer support this kind of game

I figured that out not long after making this video. Thanks!

Keep in mind that if the road isn't a perfect 90 degree angle compared to the park the zone won't have enough room for high density (because a tiny corner is occupied by road). You can make sure that roads are perfect 90 degree roads you can hold shift while drawing them.

Just playing around with this technique tonight and I found (for me with the expansion) that the distance you need is as close to 2174§ as you can get. Your mileage may vary, but that gave me the width of 2 tree rows in a row like he used in the video. And I agree with the non-abusive voices in the comments that say that sometimes having the extra space between the roads for a park between high density blocks does WONDERS for keeping the Sims happy.

Awesome tutorial! way to use the parks as a measuring tool...good job my man!

Thank you good sir, I learned a couple tips today.

Finally a good explanation about this issue!

Thank you for this video! It helped me in my biggest problem! :D You made yourself 100% clear, the video was straight and good! I really liked it! Thumbs up went on it, plus a Subscribe! - Keep it up bro!

great video, very useful. Thank you.

Great guide! Thanks a lot! Good stuff, now my Old NY style brick and brown stone buildings can be doubled in awesomeness! ;) Subbed.

Thanks for ur guide, very well explained :)

Good video, great explaination. Thanks bro !

You;ll see it in your video where 3 of them are HD and on the block that's left there are 3 small strips of houses equally divided. That's the size of each cursor block. You're right, it tend to change when there are things around the end of the road. Try it with a road long enough so that the cursor doesn't have anything to "snap" into. I'm not 100% sure. But I'm trying it right now. Thanks for the tip BTW.

Wow! Thanks for this extremely good tip!

Amazing turtotial, its very well explained and its actually really helpfull. - You got my sub of that!

Good tutorial...thanks. A tip for you. If you hold down CTRL when bulldozing a road you can delete an entire segment.

Thank you! Glad you like it!

Great explanation. Can't wait till they have Sim City for mac.

A little creativity gets you a long way :)

Great video. Really helpfull. I have alot of problem whit my city where there are smaall stupid houses between high skyscapers saying 'not enough room to increase density'. Thanks !

Thanks for posting ......great tip!

Oh thx, that was rely useful info and very well explained. You should do more.

just tried to play this game again for the first time since release. my ocd thanks you

What if you want the park to be high wealth to bring high wealth buildings. Is there an alternative to that?

thank you so much you help me alot at this problem

Best Road guide bro, thanks a lot....

very good technique thank you!

nice video m8 you helped me a lot keep up

It's just something I noticed while playing, to be honest. As I started filling empty spaces next to large buildings with parks I noticed they were the exact same size 100% of the time. From there it just took a little bit of experimenting.

Can someone help me? This doesn't seems to work for me. I suspect it's due to the gradient of the ground I'm building at. Here's the thing. If the gradient is not flat, you have to leave a gap in between the 2 back to back buildings, the higher the gradient, the bigger the gap. This is because, when there's a gradient, the bottom of the building seems to require more space.

I would think so! Should be doable though if you reserve a bit more space and use more parks to space the roads.

Thanks now i will try it in my brand new sim city 5. But i have a question, to get high density industries or comercial is it the same? regrets from Mexico. !

very helpful, thank you bro

I don't have those building sets, so I can't say for certain. But I assume those buildings have the same size as any other high density building.

Good tips. Thanks!

thanks for your help... great work..

thanks but where do you put parks to increase the land value

Wow!!! Really Great Video Keep it up DUDE!!!!!!!!

very helpful, thank you!

I have the French/German/British building sets, what is the sizing to guarantee all of those buildings? Thanks!

Thanks man, really great help.

Are you sure? Because when I zone block by block I think the size sometimes tends to change.

Thanks a lot for the tip.

I have 5 high wealth building but why the academy building is not unclockced

Thank you, I'm glad I could help :).

Thank you, helped a lot.

Haha, well I guess that's my funny Dutch accent messing up! Glad you still liked it ;).

Please make a tutorial on controlling the proper happiness level of the shops. I have this frustrating problem with residents wanting shops even though commercial is zoned right next door!

Thanks for the video it's very helpful. Maybe I can give you an extra tip. If you leave enough space to blocks you can build a plazas which is excatly same depth of high density so you can easily increase land values and get quickly high density buildings. But there is a bug or something I guess. I had over 80k population before plop a plazas instead of tree rows. When I done that. I lost Over 50k population. I upgraded almost every medium density buildings to high density but population is gone

Thank you for the tip! It is so true that we lose space in those games... ;D

Thanks a lot for this guide. Subbed. ;)

Was loosing the will to live, then at 8:02 you said Daisy-Chain and Sim City is suddenly worth playing again! Thank you!

Very clear thanks man

Where can i get this game i dowlond simcity4 but ust not the same

I knew about the use of tree-lines. But people should consider using the High Density Road guide-lines to make room for placing of megatowers. This will mean jumping 1 extra line out - which exactly should allow space for a megatower width. Two tree-lines wont have anough space.

You explained it perfectly buddy

Thanks, glad you liked it :).

You can reserve blocks for parks or make a Central Park kind of thing. Doesn't matter really.

If I am not using a road as a guide how many clicks does it take to make a maxium density building?????? noone knows

Somebody is thinking outside the low density

My parks dont fit next each other like ur video autosnap is not involved

Hi, i just started playing again 😂 is this applicable for industrial zoning? Thanks in advance!

Good video about the gridlines, helped me a lot. But it's so stupid that the gridlines aren't efficient enough..

Thank you, I really appreciate that :).

Omg Thank you I finally Know whats the Lime green about

Thanks, good tip.

Ok This method does not work for me as of tring to chain the 2 parks together.

thanks a lot, was very helpful

Hey man, thank you for showing this in detail. Yeah sure, it might have been a tiny bit too long, but at least it's comprehensible and accurate! This just made me want to start playing again!!! One thing though, the link in your description to a written guide is no longer valid. Seems the domain doesn't exist any more, just so you know :)

Great Guide!...thx

thank you so much!

I watched this video years ago but I really didn't make well laid down cities, they were pretty random. For some reason I got back to the game this couple of weeks ago. Came back to this video and got a my first 500k pop city. It might not be a lot to many of you but someone that has been building barely 100k cities over and over again it's a dream come true. I can't seem to be able to push it to over 550k. There were times that I got stuck in the past specificaly at around 250k where my population was frozen there but suddenly exploded to 400k but I have been legit stuck there at 550k. The people in the city just don't want a bigger house I guess lol. Any tips?

Ty this was very helpful

dank je voor de mooie uitleg zeer helpfull :))

What region were you playing on?

Thanks, great help

As I can see, you can measure the width of one high density building, but it's a little bit hard to measure a whole square as you have to predict it, isn't it?

You're welcome, from the Netherlands.

thank you for the great tip