SimCity 4/Parks and Recreation

Parks and recreation, when built, have the following positive effects:


 * They raise the desirability around themselves.
 * They increase the residental demand cap.
 * They help reduce air pollution (not by much, though).
 * They are needed for high-wealth residents to move in.

As such, as your city grows larger it becomes important to build parks. By nature, parks do not need a road connection.

The beach is commonly considered the best park, due to its low cost and high effect on desirability. However, since it can only be built along coasts, its use is limited to certain maps. The other parks can be built virtually anywhere. Of those, the various plazas are catered to commercial districts, while the other buildings are good for residental areas.

The following table shows the various parks' statistics. Res demand refers to the amount the residental demand cap is raised by this building, while Res and Com desirability refer to the desirability increase for residental and commercial buildings, respectively. Note while certain rewards could also be considered parks due to their similar effects, they're not listed here.

Budget and funding
unlike the previus versions of simcity in simcity 4 Parks will cost money to maintain so besure that your budget is closed to balanced before you atempt to building parks. one tip is that if your building a real world based city such as the San franciso or the New york city maps that come with the game you will notice that theres extremely large parks in these regions here in real life such as Angel island in san franciso. when confronted with a park like Angel island or even Jamaica Bay in Newyork city its best not to actually zone these areas as parks at all its a waste of money to maintain mainly becasue in large nature parks large game like deers can be found roaming these nature parks such as in real life. if you try zone park this wild life gets destroyed which is not realistic so be careful when zoning a park area and how it will afect your budget.