There, the player has 3 choices of brush size, and by using the Paint District brush, one simply has to draw the district over the area they wish to cover while holding the left mouse button.

The brush auto-snaps to roads and intersections, meaning that drawing individual blocks is relatively easy.

Districts cannot overlap, and drawing a new district into an area where another district already exists will remove that part from the existing district and add it to the new district.

To rename a district, click on the name of the district, click on the text box of the Info Box that opens, type in the desired district name and hit enter.

The options will be mostly identical to the city-wide policy options, however these policies will apply only to the district.

This is done by selecting the appropriate specialization from the Districts and Areas menu at the bottom of the screen and clicking on the district.

Select the tool and click on the District that you want to remove the specialization from.

Changing specializations will also cause existing specialized buildings to disappear and be rebuilt as the new specialization if there is sufficient demand.

Specializations in the same category are mutually exclusive.

Example: Cant have Forestry and Farming in the same District, but Forestry and Tourism would be allowed.).

There are advantages and disadvantages to each specialization.

Otherwise all buildings in the area will be secondary processors of the specified type and will need to import the raw materials from elsewhere.

Some secondary processing industry will normally emerge in areas of primary production as well.

Generic industry will not automatically utilize any natural resources present.

Information about land value within the zone, population and age groups, levels of zoned buildings and weekly tourist visits are all presented here.

Options for policies, District styles and Traffic Routes are also located here.

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