City layouts

Because of the chief importance housing has in building a strong economy, there is a particular interest in efficient usage of building space in order to maximize bonuses from Banks (extra income) and Markets (reduced food maintenance).

Layouts overview

Here we attempt to summarize and evaluate effectiveness of different approaches one can find in the web. It is commonly accepted to put bank and market next to each other to combine bonuses as much as possible, but we also presented layouts (i.e. offset 6 and 11 rows) with offset between them, allowing to put extra tents.

One can judge total amount of houses in layout (2nd column) and amount of houses affected by bank and market (column "Bank/Market") and corresponding percentages of income boost and food economy. Last column demonstrate usage of bonus-covered area. Please note, that we maximize market coverage, but one may exchange positions of market and bank to get more money but lose food.

Layout ⇅	Houses ⇅	Bank/Market ⇅	Bonus Food/Income ⇅	Usage of space ⇅	Gold per Food ⇅
Parallel	150	128 / 128	82.9% / 125.6%	75.8%	3.99
Perpendicular	144	118 / 131	81.8% / 124.6%	72.7%	4.03
Blocks 5x2	140	116/126	82% / 124.9%	70.7%	4.03
Glasses	136	123 / 123	81.9% / 127.1%	68.7%	4.11
Offset 6 rows	176	128 / 128	85.5% / 121.8%	76.4%	3.72
Offset 11 rows	192	130 / 130	86.5% / 120.3%

Examples

Here's some examples of schematics without obstacles

And some from real life: vertical lined layout, center rows and glasses layout.