# Software to easily quickly design fictional city town geography

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-to-easily-quickly-design-fictional-city-town-geography/793508
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 13, 2017, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-to-easily-quickly-design-fictional-city-town-geography/793508 "2017-08-13T01:10:37Z")
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### Author: ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-to-easily-quickly-design-fictional-city-town-geography/793508/1 "2017-08-13T01:10:37Z")

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Is there any such thing as software that will allow quick and easy designing of a fictional setting, in particular a town or city? I’m think of something that allows quick point and click of roads, streets, rivers, a handful of building shapes and sizes, and labels, which allows easy rearrangement.

I’ve tried using the shapes function in Word or graphics software and they require too much fiddling. Is there anything that might be easier? And not excessively costly?

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### Author: ![Mrdeals](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Mrdeals](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrdeals)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-to-easily-quickly-design-fictional-city-town-geography/793508/2 "2017-08-13T01:36:41Z")

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Not really what you are looking for, but back in my early teens i remember SimCity having a sandbox mode where you could build infrastructure and buildings without regard for a budget.

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### Author: ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-to-easily-quickly-design-fictional-city-town-geography/793508/3 "2017-08-13T02:49:02Z")

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Try [citygen](http://www.citygen.net/download)  
See also [Procedural City Generation in Python - Documentation — procedural\_city\_generation 0.9 documentation](https://josauder.github.io/procedural_city_generation/)  
[Procedural City Generation](https://pjreddie.com/projects/procedural-city-generation/)  
Also search for “procedurally generated cities” for descriptions of various algorithms