I booted up last night and took 3 pics right away to track my progress. These are different viewpoints of the city.
In the northeast you have the power and water and residential. South East is what I consider that inner city people. South West is the Industry, including zoning for forestry industry (notice all the trees?), and north west is a residential/commercial sector. In the middle you can see the traffic hub, as well as a small hd commercial sector, and incinerator rotary.
Far away to the northwest is the mining industry, which helps fuel the coal plants.
Above is a better pic of the rotary in the center which I scratch built myself. I will be redoing this in the future because I didn't leave myself enough room to make these into highways, which increases car speed dramatically. Plus, since I used one way streets, People have gone and started parking in the rotary, which I don't like aethestically haha.
Lastly, I played for about half an hour and did some expansion on the south west side. You can see the forestry sector is much bigger than it was in the first overhead pic. Forestry is tough because it asks for massive amounts of people. Each forest needs like 10 workers which is ridiculous, and without workers, they dry up. I solved this by rerouting buses to more adequately cover the industry and added residential right outside the forest, buffered by lots of commercial. I also had a 6 laner on the outside left that for some reason was a one way and point the wrong direction. Once I fixed that, goods seemed to come in a hell of a lot better.
I'm probably going to raze the mines in the far northeast as I don't like the current layout. Once I started getting a good economy I just started razing entire sections of city and replanning them. It's kind of interesting to see how I started out. Residential and right side of industry is all boxy. Now my expansions are almost all curved roads.
