What... something has to look nice in this game.

The Engine Works very nice, also on a middleclass pc.

14 800 000 Citizens.

+ 800 000.–

Moding:

Very easy Moding also for me as an Mod Beginner.

There are now ca 50 Mods in use.

Realistic Highways, Tons of Parcs, Houses, even a Monorail and an new Metro Layout.

FUN!

Beginnings:

The citizens of Bay Hills are fascinated with the new bridge, the gateway to the "other side" that is unexplored and mystical...

Farming adds to the ambiance of Bay Hills.

Similar to St. Marteen, waterfront properties are popular and fast growing!

More to come!

Well now Saturnia is coming, albeit very differently, to Cities XL.

Coming soon to a forum near you...

...if our dreams are still with us! As they provide us with a gift...

This floating city was inspired both by the steampunk culture in general and the game Bioshock Infinite in specific =P

i'am new here and i want to present my beginning from nyc.

Look at my pics ;-)

overwiev

Ground Zero

more pics comming soon.

regards

Anyway here is some pictures of two of my cities.

Thought I'd share and get things started!

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The second video about Silith University

The third video about two new district

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I have not post something on this forum since... 2 or three years....

So here is a new city : l'Aubrière sur Choisille.

This city is inspirate from the city of La Membrolle sur Choisille. It's a little village in France. The city center of L'aubrière is very close to the reallity unlike the rest of the city.

I've made a video in order to show you this city.

the link :

You must to concider Biggest City as an experiment and not as a real city.

I've translated some episode of the season 2 and one of the season 3.
Here is the seven video in english !!

Ep 19 - S3x1 - Back in the past

Ep 14 - S2x6 - The north district
 

Ep 11 - S2x3 - The south-east district

Trailer S2

Soon I will try to translate all the episode of the third season in english.

This is my first city. Hope you guys like it

This is my first project, its not finished yet. I will give more pics later. Please give me your comments , thanks!

CITY OVERVIEW


SOUTH TOWN


DOWNTOWN



DOWNTOWN FROM TOP OF TOWN HALL


PART OF THE SKILLED RESIDENCES


GRAND PALACE


SHIPYARD - PORT




HIGHWAYS




EAST TOWN






DOCK AT EAST TOWN


CITY IN TWILIGHT




UPDATE 1

GREAT PORT & MAJOR SHIPYARD








EAST TOWN






MAIN STREET


COCONUTS PLANTATIONS


Thanks for your view!

Since the dawn of written history Pandorans across all ages have been fixated on our twin world, known as Janus in Caliban speaking territories. For thousands of years people all over the globe have been studying, theorizing and deifying our neighbors in search of answers. It's only natural really, Pandorans are a naturally curious species, at times to our own fault. In recent times with the rapid progression of science, governments have proposed expiditions to Janus in hopes of collecting resouces and colonizing, with faint hopes of making contact with even the smallest of alien species. This progress has been met with stiff resistance from religious leaders, who view the planet as the sacred home of the gods and should not be invaded by mortal souls.

We'd spend days exploring my hometown of Ravenholm, a suburb of what some call the unoffical capital of the Federation, Fairweather. Sometimes my friends and I would climb on top of the apartment building that we lived in and throw balloons and pillows and unsuspecting, hapless victims below. As I grew older though I began to see beauty in my surroundings and decided to take a photograph.

This was just one of hundreds I took on a trip around the city I took with my friends before we all went off to our respective colleges.

Another, this time taken in Fairweather proper of the Heartcamp Building and the Fairweather Bay Bridge, known locally as the Red Hot Twins. As you can see rain clouds were gathering in the late afternoon sky and we had to return home hastily.

After several attempts at trying to make a functional and realistic city with Cities XL 2011, I gave into the temptation and decided to use a few cheats and mods to create a city. The bugs within the trading system are too much for me to live with, so I installed a few sandbox mods providing me water, heavy industry, waste removal, etc. This isn’t the way I had intended on making cities within this game but I am glad that I did. Below are the results of my first attempt at a metropolis within Cities XL and my first attempt at a city journal.

Tromperton is a humble city with 380,000 residents. 14% of the people are unskilled workers, 45% are skilled workers, 33% are executives, and 5% are elites. The city’s focus is on office space and high tech industries. All manufacturing and heavy industry goods are imported from outside sources to avoid pollution within the city.

So far all development has occurred within the northeast corner of the city limits. Future boroughs have been proposed along with a large metropolis near the river that splits the city in half. This will be addressed later on. What exists so far will remain as one separate borough.

Transit

The city began thanks to the intersection of Highway 11 and Highway 26. Enough traffic came through the city for a few retail outlets to form. What followed was the development of several residential neighborhoods and eventually a downtown at the intersection of the two highways. As the city grew, an inner loop and an outer beltway were constructed to alleviate traffic concerns. A separate highway, Highway 42, was constructed by the state to further facilitate growth in the city. A tunnel (Vasto Tunnel) was created underneath Sunset Ridge recently to complete the beltway loop. It is rarely traveled and was constructed mainly for the mayor’s enjoyment of having a complete beltway in his city.

Neighborhoods

Within the original borough there are several neighborhoods that are separated by aforementioned highways and loops.

Currently there are 6 individual neighborhoods including the downtown district. These neighborhoods do not have their own governments but have been formed out of regional identity.

Northside

The oldest neighborhood in the borough, Northside is bordered by the inner loop and Highway 26 to the south. The population is mostly skilled workers, but as the high tech park in the northern corner of the neighborhood grew, executives started to move in. Being the oldest neighborhood, it sufferers from the worst infrastructure and traffic problems. Many of the roads initially constructed were undersized for the city’s eventual needs. This has resulted in the widening of several roads and the demolition of many homes.

The high tech park to the north has been the cause of much of the neighborhood’s traffic problems. This has resulted in some interesting road designs in the park. At the top of the park an apartment complex was created to prevent skilled worked from having to travel across the city to access the site. Additionally the entrance to Vasto Tunnel can be seen at the base of Sunset Ridge.

Sudden Valley

The second oldest neighborhood in the city, Sudden Valley, was developed to provide low quality homes for the unskilled workers in the city. The neighborhood is bordered by the inner loop to the south and continues into the actual Sudden Valley to the north. These worker’s commutes have them traveling all over the city to the several retail complexes that are scattered across all the other neighborhoods. A traditional 2x7 grid pattern was executed for a speedy construction. This has since been determined to be a very ugly way to build homes. Several parks have been proposed to clear up this eyesore.

There are also plans to develop the actual Sudden Valley with more homes for the unskilled workers. Recently a highway was constructed up the side of valley to facilitate the construction of a new borough. This project took several years and wrecked havoc on the valley. It now sits idle until the new borough is constructed.

East Brighton

As the downtown district grew, so did the need for more executive homes and homes for the skilled workers. West Brighton came into existence as the Bingham Loop was extended along the river between Phil Stephens Highway and Main Street. A 2x7 grid system of skilled workers can be seen at the center of the community. Executive subdivisions were developed along the shore of the river, quickly becoming the nicest place to live in town.

Riverside Drive was constructed along the shore and is currently the longest two lane road in the city. The road starts at the eastern border of the city, continues under the Main Street Bridge, and into West Brighton. A neighborhood of stilt houses constructed on top of the river bank has been proposed. However the plan is facing stiff resistance by the residents who live along Riverside Drive who want to keep their excellent view to themselves.

West Brighton

As East Brighton grew, the neighborhood expanded across Main Street, southwest of downtown. Eventually this area grew to become larger than West Brighton itself and started to develop its own identity. This neighborhood also straddles Bingham Loop and runs along the river as it towards Highway 42. Closer to downtown, several rows of homes were created for skilled workers. The rest of the neighborhood houses subdivisions for the city’s executives and the newly arrived elites.

The neighborhood is also home to the city’s high school, Lovett High. In front of the school a park was created alongside Riverside Drive equipped with walking trails and park space for the students.

The newest subdivision in town, Lake Bell, sits directly under the new high tech hub in town. It is the city’s only gated community so far. It houses the city’s Mayor, Judge, and the CEO of the city’s largest commercial development company.

Downtown

Once a simple two block space for office buildings, the borough’s downtown has grown into one of the city’s most popular features. Filled with several medium density office buildings and skilled worker apartments, the downtown is at the center of everything in the city. Several parks fill awkward blocks equipped with artificial lakes and walking trails. Instead of filling open space with plazas and concrete, developers opted to plant trees and create as many green spaces as possible. This gives the urban hub a very healthy and refreshing feel.

At the center of it all there is the City Hall and Dawes Park. The buildings behind the City Hall house the city’s municipal offices. The Three Towers Complex sits along Main Street.

The most popular location in town is Myers Field. The stadium is the site of Lovett High’s football and soccer games. The parking lots on either side serve as the site of the city’s annual 4th of July carnival.

Sunset Ridge

The last neighborhood in town is also the most controversial. Initially the mountain that Sunset Ridge sits on was intended to be a state park equipped with hiking trails, campsites, and a public golf course. However some influential developers were able to convince the city to turn the space into a new neighborhood. It is the only neighborhood in the city outside of downtown that has areas that are zoned for office buildings. This was done to prevent a traffic nightmare on Sunset Bridge, the only way to access the community.

Since its inception, the city has attempted to separate itself from the rest of the city. There have been several pushes to make the community a self governing entity, therefore becoming the city’s second borough. The neighborhood has even parceled out a space for its own city hall within its downtown. However all proposals have been denied by City Hall due to its small size and limited access.

Another controversial component of the neighborhood is its only access point, Sunset Bridge. After the plans to development the mountain were approved, engineers hastily decided that the best way to build a highway to the community would be to construct a massive bridge over a very affluent subdivision. To some, this bridge serves as engineering eye candy while others sees it as an ugly blemish to the city’s landscape.

Future Growth

One of the most popular conversations in town is the question of what the city will do next. Recently City Hall released a map showing proposals for new boroughs and high density zoning along the south side of the river. This will all take many years to come to fruition. As it stands, the city plans on looking inward as opposed to outward over the next few years. Plans for a bus system, the development of Sudden Valley, and new green spaces and artificial lakes are in the city’s immediate sights. Until then the residents can only speculate as they attempt to gobble up the surrounding real estate in anticipation of future growth.

THANK YOU

JEPHONESEWARRIOR

FOUNDER OF CXLLR

Starting from the industrial southern fringe..

Population: 9,766

Location: Badlands of Okota

Economy: Oil and Agriculture

Dakke has been known for its small town feel in the Badlands of Okota. Originally, the city of Dakke was built on agriculture since the late 1800s. The great Badlands drought hit in the early 1900s and never left the area and the city of Dakke has seen a declining population since then. Once thrived nearly 15,500 people, it dropped to 8,322 one year ago today.

The discovery of oil by Steve Glenida in the Badlands was big news to the Dakke area in the 1930s and Steve predicted billions of oil could be extracted but the technology wasn’t there.

Technology has advanced in the past year and has allowed the ability to drill horizontally to access unrecoverable oil. Since the discovery of this new technology, the population of Dakke has risen to 9,766 and two new oil rigs have opened this year and experts predict hundreds if not thousands to be built in the Dakke area in the next 5 years.

Experts predict Dakke’s sinking population to soon explode to nearly 75,000-100,000 in the next 5-10 years.

Stay tuned for more updates.

First, you can see the satelites

Red = Heavy and Manufacture

Orange = Chinatown

Yellow = Hi Tech

Green = Farm

Dark Green = Elites

Turquoise = CBD

Blue = Urban

Deep Blue = Suburban

Purple = Landmark or Goverment area

Brown = Dump

Grey = unplanned

Red Stripes = Planned Highway

(changes may be made)

Now see the byeston Screenshots

It's time to see the RHM now!

This thread is merged from XLN. Final population i will planned 5 million people. Sorry for my bad english

a look from the northen holiday part of the city on the tourists island, a place to go and clean up our heads from the busy routine

a look over western city from the edge of the biger and denser Eastern island.

the Main island, the Eastern part of the city as seen from the North-western side.

Eastern Downtown where there are mainly offices, shops and business hotels.

Skyscrapers at night.

Satellite view.

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hope you like it

if you want to see more you can watch my youtube video: Cities XL 2011 Video In Fast Motion

PLEASE CLICK THE LINK TO SEE MY CITY

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This is my very first city of playing Cities XL 2012. At first, I just wanted to get to know what Cities XL 2012 is, so I just chose a map and tried to build something. After playing for some time, I decided to make this town to become a fabulous city, like Las Vegas, with glamous skyscapers, lots of tourism landmarks, luxury apartments and villas. After 2 months of progress, the sterile canyon became a fabulous Amercian city with 1.2 millions populations. Hpoe you like it and leave a comment please !

Here is an aerial view of the city as it begins forming.

Executive housing is being built inside of the forest preserve that was established. Pro-growth city planners find nothing wrong but environmental groups vow to block rapid expansion.

A planned development of a new downtown is halted by groups opposed to such expansion.

A heated battle in City Hall is brewing over what to do about housing for skilled workers. A large development of medium denisty housing went up but demand has still not been met. City planners urge the council to approve high density housing but advocates of slow growth are appealing for a more reserved approach. Who will win out?

A new Aerial image is given to the council by the slow-growthers showing how rapidly the city has grown in the past 2 decades. The growth is not sustainable, they argue. Pro-growth advocates show rising standards of living and increased wealth and say the city must continue to expand!

This photo is taken behind the Christ the Redeemer statue, from wealthy neighborhood. You can also see Sacré Cœur and downtown at the left.

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This is the opposite side of the bosphorus. It's also wealthy neigborhood. Place at the far middle is downtown.

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This is a bird-eye view.

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This picture is taken behind the downtown, there is victory column at the center of the city center. This area features housing for executives, skilled workers and elites at the seaside. You can also see "Rio's Eye" and Empire State building.

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This is underground road network map. Red one is highway, black ones are express ways.

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This is far east side at the city, picture taken behind the Statue of Liberty.

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And last picture.

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Sorry about pictures, tinypic and imageshack is not working, i really have no idea why. So i uploaded somewhere. Resolutions are 1920x1200.

Personal: I study spatial planning in Umeå university. Im 28 years young, I love architecture, spatial planning, my apple toys and playing games

And now to the fun!

Vinköping

A postcard from Vinköping. Translation - This is where you wan't to live!

The city is currently at about 140.000 habitants including the nearest suburbs Vinköping hamn & Österby fälten.

For more info visit my blog: Stenbergcities

Next update: More pictures form around the city + some future thoughts of the city.

Future update: The new infrastructure project – Vinköpings projektet. A highway connection to the city.

Future update: The metro system + maps.

Future update: The university area + Vinköping hamn and Österby fälten.