District placement requirements

[CultureManiac]

Some districts have requirements, like the encampment needs to be at least two hexes away from the city, and the aquaduct needs to be beside it. I'm not aware of any for industrial or campus districts, yet I'm finding that sometimes my prefered spot is not available for selection, even if it's in my territory. Am I missing something? It really messes up city planning.

 

[Plus Ultra]

Check if the tile is assigned to other city, happened to me a couple of times.

 

[Frank327]

You can't build districts on flood plains.

 

[Leyrann]

I had a game where I started almost right next to a mountain, and on the other side of the mountain there was a tile surrounded by 5 mountains. When I researched writing, I bought the mountain and the tile beyond it, but could not build a campus there. 20 turns later however, when I tried again, there was no problem at all.

No idea why, but I just figured I'd share it.

 

[Browd]

That can happen if the tile where you want to place the Campus (or any other district) had jungle on it -- if you haven't researched Bronze Working, you can't remove the jungle, and if you can't remove the jungle, you can't build the district there.

 

[KrikkitTwo]

Reasons you can't place a district (all districts)
Floodplains
Luxury resource
Strategic resource(revealed)
You lack the tech to remove a bonus resource/feature

 

[StrideColossus]

Another possibility is your city border hasn't expanded to the tile you want but you don't have enough money to buy it, confused me a couple of times. If you do have sufficient funds then there is a nice button in the construction 'screen' that allows you to buy the tile then place the district.

 

[joncnunn]

In the press release previews, workers had to first preclear Marsh if you wanted to place a district on it.