Building Tall, Cities - by DavidXYu - XY-Wise
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Part 1 – Cities, A Basis for Life
In the Civilization games, there are generally two strategies for succeeding, one could seek to “build tall” or “build wide”. To “go wide” is to build a sprawling empire that takes up as much territory as possible by building many settlements, thus gaining a large aggregate production. “Going tall” foregoes expansion in the lateral sense and instead focuses on investing deeply in a small number of cities. The tall strategy aims to optimize each city for complementarity and density/population, creating a high-production state viable against larger empires. Wide and Tall The strategies of…
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