Small towns of mixed sub-urb/rural sprawl with a "downtown core" of maybe three hundred acres of centralized economics is the way to go. The drawback to it is you'll have likely two-three big businesses "dominate" the town, and their success or failure will impact the town's QoL, but I think the benefits outweigh that risk.
Small towns of mixed sub-urb/rural sprawl with a "downtown core" of maybe three hundred acres of centralized economics is the way to go. The drawback to it is you'll have likely two-three big businesses "dominate" the town, and their success or failure will impact the town's QoL, but I think the benefits outweigh that risk.