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Players can plan the best locations to provide sufficient civic services to Sims most effectively, for example placing schools in or around residential areas. Facilities that had previously provided citywide coverage, such as educational facilities and medical facilities, have now been modified to provide a more limited coverage, as it has been with police stations and fire stations in previous SimCity titles. The functions of civic buildings have been overhauled in SimCity 4. Players can choose a selection of characters or import them from The Sims. This mode can be used to closely assess citizens' needs through sims giving the player feedback. The final mode is the My Sim mode which enables players to create user-defined Sims, which will live and work in the city the player has created. Other things that players can do in Mayor Mode are build civic buildings such as schools, hospitals, parks, police stations, fire stations, and public utilities. Players can build transportation networks, which include roads, streets, highways, subway lines, and bus stations. Areas of land can be zoned as residential, commercial or industrial areas where the city will begin to grow. The second of the modes is the Mayor Mode, the fundamental mode of the game where the actual city building is conducted. However, the player still has some terraforming tools (although they become very limited and expensive) and can still trigger disasters at will. Most terraforming tools are disabled after the city is named and founded. Players can select an area where a disaster will occur and even control the direction of certain disasters. God Mode also allows players to trigger disasters, including tornados and earthquakes among several others.

The first is the God Mode, which allows players to design or terraform a selected tract of land where the city will be built. Upon selecting a specific segment in a region, gameplay is divided into three "modes". The size of a region and its layout of segments can be changed in a bitmap file provided for each region. A large city is 16 km² for comparison the New York borough of Manhattan measures about 90 km². The player has the option of starting the city in a segment of any of three area sizes, in real measurement the smallest has a length of 1 kilometers on a side, and the largest has a length of 4 kilometers on a side. Cities are now located in regions that are divided into segments, each of which can be developed.

As with previous SimCity titles, SimCity 4 places players in the role of a mayor (or several mayors), tasked with populating and developing tracts of lands into cities, while fulfilling the needs of fellow Sims that live in the cities.