Vancouver is over 60% single-family housing and roads Jens von Bergmann has run the numbers on land use in various municipalities in Metro Vancouver. The City of Vancouver in particular has lot of land tied up in streets and detached housing.
The real world has too much parking for SimCity An interview with SimCity designer Stone Librande contains a revelation about real-world urban design that's stuck with me: [We] were originally just going to model real cities, but we quickly realized there were way too many parking lots in the real world and that our game was going to be really boring if it was proportional in terms of parking lots.