Quote Originally Posted by annadobritt
Yes, demographics. How many buildings are needed for a total community population. A subject I find very fascinating. And not just the number of buildings, but types of buildings and services.

Been working on some numbers for figuring this out and will be making maps according to those numbers. Hope to have these percentages finished up this evening.

The most complex one I'll be doing is of Carnd a city-state. Has 135,000 adults living there and is a port city as well. Several occupied islands are also part of the city. There's even a sea elf colony living near the harbor. I'll be mapping that as well.

like esmale i really reccomend ROSS's works in Medevial Demo's
and the doomsday book...i even made my own little tool
loosely based on it with my own opinions....he provides a
very good starting point for any RPG setting..he also has a
cool page for space demographics too...


also that stat about 4.5 people per family is a good place to start
too...i do that alot to decide roughly how many buildings for
a village, town or city...then you can rationalize it with
some buildings being multi-family or multi business....