Top 5 Cities Skylines Tips for Beginners (From a City Planner)

Struggling to make your city function well? No worries - we've all been there. today, I'm providing my top 5 Cities Skylines Tips for Beginners to ensure that your city functions as well as it can. Honestly, these tips could benefit even more seasoned veterans. So strap in for some quick tips!

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[frankh]

My traffic actually went from 64% to 93% by implementing these suggestions. Especially the bike lanes and pedestrian paths had major impact on both traffic and noise pollution. Thanks a lot!

[WildsDreams]

Here's a pro tip!

Sewage drainage should always be behind the residential area so children have something to play in on a hot summer day.

[dopetokeman]

Whilst listening to this guy for the last 4 minutes and 14 seconds of my life. I’ve come to the realization, that the city planers where I live absolutely should not be planing cities😭😭😂

[banh_mi]

My cities are often just traffic infested, utility drowned slums with disconnected transportation.

[isleofjava]

I love knowing "why" things work. People who have problems that seem to arise because of the tips might want to look beyond the current moment to see what else might be wrong before automatically blaming the current change alone. This happened to me when I added bike Lanes, etc. At first, my traffic increased. Then, I saw this video and realized I was concentrating my industrial all together AND far away from the highway. Since I've changed that, traffic is super slick. Can 74 year olds get degrees in Urban Planning? 🤔

[william.i.herman]

Watching this made me realize how badly I’ve messed up the traffic on my first city. I have a massive downtown core with zero road hierarchy, arbitrary road layouts with too many intersections, and in some places, two-lane roads serving as major arteries. The result is massive supply shortages all over the city that I can’t seem to fix no matter how many freight connections I make.

It’s a shame, because the city is pretty cool aside from that. I’m definitely going to take all this into account when I build my next city.

[dracosummoner]

Just wanted to pop back in here and say that those two-lane roads WITH bicycle lanes changed my life. I'd tried everything I could think of to encourage my citizens to use bikes, but didn't know about the roads with the bike lanes built in and had wondered what the point of the regular roads was (they have parking spaces, but businesses and large apartment complexes usually have those on their own and they don't clutter into the street). My traffic in my new small city has usually been hovering around 94% now. Thank you again!

[epiccollision]

I took all the tricks Amsterdam does for traffic calming and it actually works, bike highways, transit routing and pedestrian access make everything seem complicated but are just roads without cars. Also burn all the traffic lights and install a roundabout in appropriate areas.

[GabrielTobing]

What I learnt as well is to use pedestrian tunnels or foot bridges instead of crossings for major roads. As cars would always stop for a unlimited amount of people crossing the road.

[southpineshooligan]

My traffic has never been too bad (under 70%) but these tips will surely keep it above 90%
Road hierarchy has never been my strong suit, I depend too much on roundabouts and lane control

[corvettec-dteq]

I can agree with that last one about making cities less car dependant, we need to do that for our real life cities as well. My car broke down yesterday and I've basically been able to do literally nothing but stay home while waiting for the mechanic to work through a busy schedule.

[djNesse]

I do consider myself as a smart guy. I've never had any problems with this type of games. Exept Cities. I watch a lot on youtube and i always think "why can't i do this?". Your 10 min video solved 5 years of missery. 10 MINUTES! If your ever going to sweden, hmu and i'll buy you one or six beers!

[KelsieHanson]

I recently got back into Cities Skylines (been on and off playing for years, mostly on console) and am thrilled to find your channel! Thanks so much.

[caseya]

I seem to always start off decently. But once I buy a 2nd area, my building designs go to shit

[kaleicious]

Everytime I make a city, I get stuck on something and watching city planner solves every problem I run into. Keep up the great work

[wiggyscott]

1:17 Woah, what's that freaky bit? lol.

[jaydizzay]

I tend to place public services (e.g. disaster response, recycling/waste centres, helicopter depots etc) on isolated highway-connected islands with dedicated junctions, off and onramps and roundabouts to both minimise the number of vehicles on the main city roads and maximise highway use.

[modyanarchokarolak]

This rode hierarchy blew my mind. I'm always using those 6 lane rodes no matter what

[AbleAnderson]

I've been a fan of this game since 2016 and I've come across many CS channels on YouTube, but I think this is by far my favorite. He doesn't just show what he's built and leave it at the chef's secret sauce or the magician's trick, he really explains how cities work, why things should be done certain ways, etc. I love hearing the why behind this stuff, and this kind of advice has helped my city building more than just seeing a cool city that's already done and trying to emulate it; this has allowed me to organically create well functioning and natural looking cities more often. I appreciate this content

[rubble]

It's kind of interesting to see the difference between you and Biffa. I've spent far more hours watching Biffa than I have playing the game. I'm on my 5th and hoping that this one will be able to keep going. Traffic typically kills me eventually. Biffa's solutions are typically roundabouts and lane management...oh, and of course public transport. Adding your stuff in I think is gonna help me a lot. Thank you. Also, if you haven't seen Biffa's stuff, I'd recommend watching an episode or two, he's just plain fun to watch. Again, thanks for posting this.