# City Information

City Information shows statistics about a selected urban area (village, town or city) and can be used to change the name of the urban area.

Each urban area has its own Town Hall around which it grows. Transportation of passengers and mail helps growth, which involves: roads built and taken over by the public service player; new city buildings and industries appear; and city limits extend.

Click on a Town Hall in game-view with the Inspection Tool or an urban area listed in City List to open ?City Information, which contains: a name-box; statistics; two mini-maps; and a graph for the urban area.

name: assigned name of urban area appears in a name-box at top of ?City Information.
Names of urban areas are used in the default names of Stops.
To change name: click on name-box and type new name.
{Tips: Use [!] to toggle view of name of urban area, above a Town Hall, in game-view. See readme_citylist.txt (in ...simutrans/text/) for help on name generation of urban areas}.

Under the name-box statistics are provided on urban area:
City size: is number of citizens (population of urban area). The recent increase in population is shown in brackets.
buildings: number of buildings in urban area.
map co-ordinates: indicate boundary of city limits (changes as urban area grows).

Counters increase with growth of urban area and decrease with construction of new city buildings:
unemployed: counter determines which type of city building (residential/commerical/industrial) may be constructed.
homeless: counter determines which type of city building (residential/commerical/industrial) may be constructed.

mini-maps of the game world in ?City Information indicate destinations of passengers and mail.
Destinations are shown by coloured dots for the current game-calendar-month (right mini-map) and last game-calendar-month (left mini-map). Colour of destination dots indicate details about passengers and mail:
- yellow: found a route and an uncrowded Stop to start journey (happy face shown in Stop Information).
- orange: did not find a route to this destination.
- red: found a route but Stop at start of journey was overcrowded (unhappy face in Stop Information).

Graph shows statistics for the urban area.
The y-axis is quantity, the x-axis is time.
Click on graph index-tab to change scale of x-axis:
Years: shows annual values for last ten game calendar years.
Months: shows monthly values for last 12 game months

Click on graph-option-button to see information on graph (button is indented when option selected).
Colours of lines on graph correspond to colours of graph-option-buttons:
Citizens: population.
Town growth: change in population (dependent on city size and transport service provided for passengers and mail).
Travel?ed: passengers and mail that entered transport network (shown as a happy face in Stop Information)
Passengers: Total number of passengers and mail generated in urban area.

{Tips: Settings related to urban areas can be changed in simuconf.tab and cityrules.tab}.