What decides the land value and high buildings?

[Telemarx]

It seems to me that all the tall buildings appear at high land-value places. Is this true? How to improve this and encourage my city to build high buildings?
Thank you.

[canophone]

Land value 101? Rail Stations and other transportation infrastructure, just like IRL usually.

[Vimpster]

To expand on what canophone said, it isn't that train stations themselves increase landvalue. But rather that increased accesibility to the appropriate building types (commercial, industrial, residential) increases landvalue. So since stations with decent lines create an increase to the accesibility of the buildings around them with buildings further away, it increases that landvalue around the station. This applies to all stations/ bus stops/airports/ship ports/train stations. However train stations are generally able to create the largest increase in accesibility due to the combined speed and volume that they can manage and as such will usually have the most noticeable effect on the surrounding landvalue.

From my observations it would also appear that their are two landvalues that work together. One for the actual land itself and one for the buildings. I suspect when a land value for the actual land exceeds certain thresholds it allows for buildings of a higher land value to be built. But the land value for the building is permanantly attatched to the building regardless of the fluctuations of the actual land value of the land it is on. So if the land value of the land it is on goes down sufficiently then the building, instead of just losing landvalue, will be replaced with a building that has a lower landvalue.

[Telemarx]

I am pretty clear now, thank you very much.

Originally posted by Vimpster:

To expand on what canophone said, it isn't that train stations themselves increase landvalue. But rather that increased accesibility to the appropriate building types (commercial, industrial, residential) increases landvalue. So since stations with decent lines create an increase to the accesibility of the buildings around them with buildings further away, it increases that landvalue around the station. This applies to all stations/ bus stops/airports/ship ports/train stations. However train stations are generally able to create the largest increase in accesibility due to the combined speed and volume that they can manage and as such will usually have the most noticeable effect on the surrounding landvalue.

From my observations it would also appear that their are two landvalues that work together. One for the actual land itself and one for the buildings. I suspect when a land value for the actual land exceeds certain thresholds it allows for buildings of a higher land value to be built. But the land value for the building is permanantly attatched to the building regardless of the fluctuations of the actual land value of the land it is on. So if the land value of the land it is on goes down sufficiently then the building, instead of just losing landvalue, will be replaced with a building that has a lower landvalue.