Cities: Skylines Experiments: A city of built landscape typologies

On the Cities: Skylines reddit I saw someone posted a link to this journal article which outlines 27 different types of built landscapes, ie street patterns. I thought this was pretty interesting and could be used to make a realistic looking city in the game. Of course, instead of making an actual city, I just did a bunch of experiments, and once I got all these different street patterns into a city, it ended up with a population of 30,000.

So what I did was pick a consistent zone type to go with each built landscape that I thought worked best based on what was described in the article. So here's a shot of each zone, some of which I'll definitely be using in future cities since they look quite nice.

Allotment Gardens: For this I used low residential, trying to focus on 1x4 and 1x3 to give a nice effect of having backyard gardens. This part kind of got swallowed up by the rest as it was the first one I built, but you can get an idea of it from the pictures below.

Apartment Blocks: 2x4 High Density Residential:

University Campus: University with some sports and meeting facilities attached, with some small scale offices and high density residential in the upper right corner.

Commercial Strip: 2x3 low density commercial along a straight road, with 2x2 low residential on the branching streets.

Country Roads: A single road (which started in the country but then get swallowed by the expanding city) with 2x3 and 2x4 low residential.

Degenerate Grid: 3x2 low residential. I really like the look of this one.

Garden Apartments: 1x4 high residential. This one created a neat effect of all concrete, which wasn't what I had in mind by trying to recreate gardens, but it still looks interesting.

Garden Suburb: A mixture of 2x4, 3x4, and 2x3 low residential.

Heavy Industry: Primarily 4x4 industry.

Incremental/Mixed: A mixture of 2x2 high residential, 3x3 low residential, 1x1 low commercial, and 2x2 office.

Land of the Dead: Originally this was just a cemetery, a park, and two crematoriums, but then I added a prison because it looked neat, and then a recycling plant and an incinerator, and then it got swallowed by the city, but still looks interesting.

Large Blocks: Combination of 2x2 and 3x3 high commercial and office.

Loops & Lollipops: 3x3 and 2x3 low residential.

Malls and Box Stores: 4x4 low commercial with connected walkways. Perfect for an IKEA!

New Urbanist: low density commercial on the bottom, 2x3 and 3x3 low res in the middle and 4x4 low residential on the top with a nice feature in the middle.