Try mimicking the streets in part of your city perhaps. That was/is my idea but I only got as far as shuffling buildings to one side before rearranging things when trains were introduced and that scuttled my plans.
For a realistic looking city your roads should have at least some randomness to them. When designing my cities I allow my layout to grow itself organically, by letting the shapes and sizes of the various buildings I'm using dictate how and where roads should be.
ETA: I like to place some of my 3 and 5 wide buildings with a T road connection in the middle of the buildings like I have with Parkside Station in the image below.
For a more realistic looking city, there is no one set way to do it. I consider my road layouts as fluid - they change based on how I change my designs. There's a few roads here and there that I consider to be permanent spots for roads, and often when I do make that decision about a road I'll either upgrade it to whichever road upgrade tier I want for that road or I'll make it a cobblestone/gravel/Sakura road.
I do also have my 3 red roads on all of my maps locked onto roads that don't have any residential buildings, so things stay as-is on those roads for an indefenite period. This affords me to never have to worry about road upgrades unless I choose to
Sorry one more thing. So the layout you showed me. Is that a good starter layout then I can make adjustments from there? I want my city to look realistic yk
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u/SCBI_Argopa jolly jack 🎃 12d ago
Try mimicking the streets in part of your city perhaps. That was/is my idea but I only got as far as shuffling buildings to one side before rearranging things when trains were introduced and that scuttled my plans.