• villages would be connected by transit and walking paths.
• How do you connect them all most efficiently?
• Perhaps concentric rings, with a special hub-town in the center

Transportation

• You have subway lines underground, connecting the villages, first a continual, straight line, then connecting to a central hub for a hub & spoke design.
  • subways have cars for people and cars for cargo. (to accommodate automated cargo-pods one day)
  • 4 stations per spoke means 6 villages per hub, or 1500 residents per station
• a large central station under the central hub where people moving between spokes could switch between lines or hop onto transport to the seaport, airport and roadport.
• the spokes and subway lines could be named for their cardinal directions: N, NE, E, SE, S, etc
• between the villages and stations is empty greenspace.
• a ring of greenhouses form a wheel outside the spokes, perhaps.
• central hub would also contain
  • an endpoint for transportation to the port.
  • underground parking for cars, which is the endpoint the car/truck road to the city.
  • storage facilities for goods entering & exiting the city.