City Planning Diagram Basics

A city planning diagram provides a graphical view of the big picture of your enterprise architecture, using the metaphor of planning the infrastructure of a city to represent the organization of systems, applications, etc into architectural areas.

In the following example, the core system is broken up into five major sub-systems, which are in turn sub-divided into their major functions. Major applications and databases are also highlighted.

• City Planning Diagram Objects
  PowerDesigner supports all the objects necessary to build city planning diagrams.
• Creating a City Planning Diagram
  You can create a city planning diagram in an existing EAM in any of the following ways: