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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrooklynKnight" data-source="post: 2719296" data-attributes="member: 4490">The thread on overlooked inventions, and Civilization4 got me thinking.If i'm not mistaken all of the worlds major cities, New York, LA, Washington, London, Madrid, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, and countless others, have taken hundreds of years to develop their modern infrastructure.Ideas built upon ideas, upon ideas, and more. Say someone found a prime location for a city that hasnt already been taken. How easy would it be to build a city with a modern infrastructure from scratch? How big would they start? WHERE would they start? Would you build the homes first? Or the power grid? the water grid? roads?In your basic fantasy world towns and villages have typically started around a single inn/tavern or building, or collection of buildings, (Silverymoon and Sharn for example), and grew from there. In the near past, cities and towns grew from small collections of hutts and buildings, some towns died, others prospered (the gold rush is a good example of this I suppose).For some reason I've been wondering just how a city would rise today, from the very first brick, step or handfull of dirt.Thoughts?</blockquote>