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Beyond fiction, city map generators serve a pragmatic purpose in education and urban planning. While a generator cannot replace the nuanced surveying required for actual construction, it serves as an invaluable "sketchpad" for urban theory. Planners can use these tools to rapidly prototype different zoning layouts—comparing the traffic flow of a grid system versus a radial design—without investing in expensive architectural modeling.
Real cities have mistakes. Use a "slum brush" to draw a random patch of organic, winding streets in the middle of your pristine grid. This immediately adds verisimilitude. A city that is 100% perfect feels fake.