City Designer drawing dimensions

TheIneffableCheese · January 22

Does anyone have a personal shorthand for sizes of settlements? Particularly for pseudo-medieval, typical fantasy sorts of locations.

I've got some concept of what size a dungeon level should generally be, and likewise I think I've got a reasonable grip on figuring out sizes for regional maps, but I realized I've got nothing for villages, towns, and cities.

Thanks!

JimP · January 22

I have cities and towns on my Crestar site. I don't really think of population sizes when I make them.

On my cellphone so I can't look it up, but a link to information on population sizes was posted here years ago.

JimP · January 22

This might help.

https://forum.profantasy.com/discussion/comment/14975#Comment_14975

JulianDracos · January 22

Keep in mind that people had to walk so that really limits the size of settlements if you want it to be reasonable. There are 30-120 people per acre depending on the density of the settlement. One square mile is 640 aces. So a max population of 76,800 for a sq mile city. London and Paris had peek populations in the 30,000-40,000 for this period.