I built the enclosed city after reading the two-part series on Simcity 2000 
written by Robert L. Hayes, Jr. and published in the April and May 1994 
issues of Computer Gaming World. I highly recommend these articles to 
anyone interested in this game. I've written this file to explain the 
strategies I employed in building this city. I hope that you find it 
interesting or useful. Please send any comments or questions to me, 
Anant Chandra, at Compuserve account 71052, 1323.

4x4 Blocks - In the second part of the series, the author recommends 
building a city using a 4x4 block. In one of these blocks, one can build a 
3x3 building, three 1x1 buildings and four blocks of park or trees. 
For example, I built many blocks with a 3x3 building one one corner, three 
1x1 commercial buildings on the opposite corner and four open blocks on the 
remaining two corners. As Mr. Hayes pointed out in his article, you can 
dramatically reduce the amount of traffic generated by mixing the zone types 
within these 4x4 blocks. I then built four of the 4x4 blocks so that the 3x3 
buildings would be on opposite corners of an intersection. The resulting 2x2 
squares formed the pattern for the entire city. (To see the pattern best, 
view the city in map mode with zones selected.)

Parks vs. trees - The presence of parkland in the unoccupied squares of the 
4x4 blocks helps to increase the land value of the buildings, again as 
pointed out by Mr. Hayes. However, I like to see lots of trees, so I start 
my cities by painting trees very densely everywhere and then leaving trees 
on every open square.   I don't know if I would do better by planting 
parks everywhere, instead.

Power plants - As many people have noted, hydroelectric power is generally 
the most cost-effective solution. Some have suggested that the most 
efficient approach is to raise one tile up one level and then build 
waterfalls on all the slopes. Therefore, in a 3x3 block, one can get eight 
hydroelectric plants going, which will produce 160 MW in nine squares. 
I found that in one of the 2x2 squares described above (which are 9x9 
blocks), one can build nine of these 3x3 squares of hydroelectric
power, which will produce 1,440 MW of power or 17.77 MW/square.

Water works - I used a similar approach to develop a water supply. I placed 
a pond in the middle of a 3x3 block and surrounded it with water pumps. 
I also built nine of these 3x3 water plants in one of the basic 2x2 squares.
 
The space needed for water production is minimized, but every water pump 
is adjacent to a water square. I placed both the power plants and the 
waterworks in between the industrial and the residential zones of the city. 
Since they aren't populated, they served as poll