Roads must link back to the highway sign at the edge of the slab: that is where settlers arrive. Homes grow into townhouses and later apartments when the area is appealing, so mix in parks and keep workshops at a distance. Farms near water yield more, rain helps, winter hardly yields at all. Two fingers move, turn and zoom the map.
Sound
Shadows
Leave this region behind and start a new one?
Strata
Grow a settlement on a slab of land, layer by layer, into a city. Then add slabs and build a country, and in time a world.
1Draw roads out from the highway sign.
2Put homes along them; settlers move in on their own.
3Farms feed everyone, workshops give them jobs, parks make them stay.