Urban Sprawl (English)

Urban Sprawl

Urban Sprawl is a game for 2-4 players. Urban Sprawl abstractly models the growth of a town into a teeming metropolis.

Players assume the roles of entrepreneur, tycoon and politician?each helping in the development of a hypothetical ?Anywhere, USA.? Wealth and Prestige will be earned and spent throughout the game. Buildings will rise only to later be demolished for better and larger fare.

Throughout the game, players will gather valuable Permits. These will result in either a wealthy Investment or the foundation of a new building Contract. Players will strive to become dominant in one or more building Zones in order to acquire beneficial political offices.

All of this eventually leads to the end game ? a vibrant metropolis that is revered around the world ? when the player with the most Prestige will be crowned the winner.

Game Play:

The grid of streets on the board provides the framework for building the small town. The buildings will be placed within the grid and identified with control markers (wooden cubes) to show each player?s contribution to the growing urban area. Each building?s value is determined by the cumulative Wealth and Prestige values of the block in which is it constructed.

At the start of a player?s turn he may discard one or more Building Permit cards from hand as ?Investments,? gaining Wealth in doing so. Next that player gets 6 ?Action Points? (APs) that he may spend on any of the the following activities:

• Acquiring new Building Permit cards from those available to choose,
• Constructing new buildings from those currently available,
• Acquiring a ?Favor? ? a Building Contract that only that player can build.

Each activity carries with it a variable cost in APs, depending on where the chosen card lies on the board.

COMPONENTS

• Game board
• Four player mats
• 144 wooden cubes in four player colors
• Four wooden cylinders in four player colors
• One orange wooden pawn
• 165 cards:
  • 54 in the Building Permit deck
  • 37 in the Town deck
  • 37 in the City deck
  • 37 in the Metropolis deck
• Four sheets of die-cut tiles:
  • 128 buildings
  • 24 Vocations
  • 6 Politicians
  • 1 Contractor
  • 6 Wealth markers
  • 3 Prestige markers
  • 1 Active Player marker
  • 1 Extra Favor marker