Cities

Despite owning a significant portion of Arita's surface area 90% of their population lives in a city. Cities nearly every city is growing a a high rate, and even the others are still growing only slower. The Republic builds and maintains a lot of public infrastructure inside of cities, the roadways, air, sea, and space ports are almost completely owned by the Republic. Utility infrastructure is built and maintained by the government but leases it to private companies who provide the services.

Recent Transit Innovations

The most recent innovation in public transit is the development of multi-story highways with some of the more important ones being 5 stories tall. Each story is 15 feet tall and has an outer lane that is an elevator where ground cars can park on the elevator and move between layers. In some places there are ramps that lead to specific layers of the highway.

A private sector innovation was flying cars some time ago, but these remain expensive due to high taxes, licenses, and laws around flying vehicles.

Downtowns

Between these two innovations and the laws protecting historical buildings, historical downtowns have become a place almost exclusive to the wealthy. With cities unable to build the new road systems or adapt existing roads the limit to what can enter a downtown has been restricted to air vehicles only, and in some cities this is law. This makes historic downtowns an odd clash of old facade buildings with modern interiors, the ultimate luxury place.

Suburbs

The further you get away from the downtown the more modern things get, and in this case that means super highways everywhere to support growing populations, even where super highways aren't yet required. Walking from place to place is incredibly dangerous. When looked at from a birds eye view super highways run in grid patterns over large stretches of land. The interior of these grids is not universal, but a 5x5km area is average. Within these grids you'll find smaller grids of roadways, then streets that finally lead to buildings. Walking along a street may not get you killed, but a road is pushing it even for young healthy Tutinari.

The result of this is that most Tutinari rarely leave their Super Grid unless they have to. More wealthy people or small corporations may prefer to fly to new Super Grids

Rural Places

With even agriculture industry moving into the cities the need for rural cities decreased and eventually left most of them abandoned. There are more than a few that operate either as vacation destinations, historic living museums, and some pay extra to live this life style.

Corporate Cities

Many of these have either been handed over to the Republic or abandoned as colonization of new worlds took shape, but before then wealthy people would build cities that were much smaller and scaled for the individual and not a mechanized society.