Am I allowed to make a build based on a real place?

Ok, so I am wanting to make a build like City Walk, If anyone’s curious, It’s an actual shopping place in Dubai which is mainly outdoors, but Here is the picture in the indoor part.

but I am wanting to make a build like that. but I am worried about the issues it can occur. I will copy the place names but write it in Russian and Greek [they both look close to English but isn’t], I would also make it very similar

Is it a problem to make a build based on a real place?

As far as I am aware, there should be no issues with doing so. Note that using real brand names isn’t something that you should do, so consider using fictional brand names.

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I would transliterate them into different languages, It’s difficult to make fictional brand names.

Yeah, I also struggle when I have to do so, but that is something that you can do.

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I did it with “Brands For Less” in Russian

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Written as “Брандс Фор Лесс”

If you’re wondering why the letter De [Д д] looks like [g], It’s because in Cursive Cyrillic, De looks like this:

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Typing Represenation: [Uppercase: D Lowercase: g]

Also about the El, It looks like a flipped V because It’s just how the Gotham font renders the letter

It’s totally fine to do that if you don’t put real people in it or it’s a place something “wrong” happened (I don’t know what word to use). Like the World Trade Center. For this, it’d be fine.

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I won’t do any of these, It’s actually in Dubai which is a city where it’s very common for disasters to happen [considering the fact that the behind the scenes is where people from Bangladesh and Nepal are forced to live in Dubai and aren’t paid for working], but I’m doing City Walk, where no disasters happen

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Then yeah you are totally free to do that without getting any problems.

As long as it’s not like a tragedy

e.g. columbine, twin towers etc.

unless maybe for educational purpouses but idrk about that

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