Each student or team constructs one or more of the structures or areas that has been listed in the planning process. Some important facilities, services, or infrastructure may not have been planned by the student teams. The teacher may make suggestions, but it is best not to dictate. Ownership of the city needs to belong to the student team. Thus, final cities may be short on some products, services or infrastructure.
Students design and create the basic structures in their planned city.
Encourage details and experimentation in the student design process. Consider the city as a whole, see what else needs to be added, strengthened, combined or taken away. Rather than try to map each building use symbols to indicate large facilities, parks, etc. Develop new symbols for the map legend if needed. Talk about areas and identify industrial, business, urban, suburban and rural areas.