Cities Skylines 2 mixed zoning is confirmed, delivering ultra realism

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Cities Skylines 2 is like a checklist of fan requests, that’s being ticked off one by one. Roundabouts? Yes. Better road-building tools? Done. Intelligent traffic that finally uses every lane? You got it. Now, with the Cities Skylines 2 release date heading towards us, and the city-building game starting to look very promising indeed, Colossal Order and Paradox deliver on another long-standing community request, demonstrating how Cities Skylines 2 will feature mixed zoning for hyper-realistic residential and commercial builds.

In the standard Cities Skylines base game, zones are split between residential, commercial, and industrial. Although, theoretically, you can lay down a city block with a mixture of different zones, they don’t truly interact with one another – unless of course it’s a residential area complaining of noise pollution from the nearby factory.

Now, however, that’s all changed. Cities Skylines 2’s mixed zoning means you can layer different zones on top of and alongside one another, creating complex urban environments that more closely resemble real life. The best example is a new type of residential and commercial zone called ‘mixed housing,’ whereby apartments can be zoned above restaurants and shops. If you want a bustling downtown with lots of commerce, while also using the airspace to build multi-storey apartment blocks, now you can.

There are also new types of residential zone. In the past, we’ve only been able to build low-density houses, suitable for smaller, single families, and high-density residential areas where hundreds of citizens live together.

CS2 introduces medium-density housing, essentially attached row houses that are still occupied by one family each, but are pushed together. There is