City layouts

Because of the chief importance housing has in building a strong economy, there is a particular interest in efficient usage of building space in order to maximize bonuses from Banks (extra income) and Markets (reduced food maintenance).

Layouts overview

Here's the table for comparison of layouts collected in this Markets and Bank layouts Google spreadsheet. One can judge total amount of houses in layout (2nd column)m amount of houses affected by bank and market (columns "Bank" and "Market") and corresponding percentages of income boost and food economy. Here we maximize market coverage, but one may exchange positions of market and bank to get more money but lose food.

Layout	Houses	Bank	Income	Market	Food	gold per 1 food
Glasses	110	110	130%	110	80.0%	4.33
Horizontal	144	118	124.6%	131	81.8%	4.03
5x2 blocks	140	116	124.9%	126	82.0%	4.03
Vertical	150	128	125.6%	128	82.9%	3.99
Offset 6 rows	174	127	121.9%	127	85.4%	3.73
Offset 11 rows	192	130	90.44%	130	86.5%	3.62

Proceed to Markets and Bank layouts Google spreadsheet for detailed version of this table.

Examples

Here's some examples of schematics without obstacles

And some from real life: vertical lined layout, center rows and glasses layout.