Show Us Your Anti-Grid!

[xgriffinx 4]

here goes another example for the anti-grid. the city is far from finished so don't complain about some unaestheticities.

[david1314 44]

Oh, I like that Glenni. A Nice showcase of some of your work as well

[david1314 44]

page flip bug?

[YourNickname 0]

The hardest part about non-grid cities is the traffic. Connecting one ity-bitty, out-of-the-way street to another street totally off your main strip will suddenly cause a total traffic flow redirection. And its even more difficult to update your transit systems later on.

That said, I try to only grid certain sections of a city (higher density commercial, for instance), but if I do mainly grid cities, I try to create grid variants. I will build one grid, then 5 others elsewhere in the town. They don't align... and therein lies the fun. Keeps a simple grid, but causes a lot of nice variation to get the grids to sync up properly.

[Kayean_Henser 2]

That messy traffic-flow problem is part of the "fun," however. I like working from a small-scale, non-grid pattern to begin with, looking ahead to a time in my cities' histories when I will have to make some hard choices about road-widening, traffic-flow, and neighbourhood and heritage preservation. 

Sometimes, it gets a little too real as a result!

[DanWalker8 3]

Here's my most recent non-grid performance

[masochist 111]

And now for some suburbs...

A somewhat newer suburb (well, at least compared to the two pictures above.  As you can see, this one actually has diagonal streets ):

And a future development on a hillside of a different region:

Of course, I've shown all these pictures before...

[muffinpunk787 1]

masochist: Those are some nice pictures.. the third one is my favorite. The first two have too many roads in them.. and not enough houses and trees. That hillside looks challenging..good luck!

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

Yay anti-grid   belfastuniguy, your pics were amazing!  and inspiring, to me.  Im ready to go play some sc4 now   masochist, those are some interesting random streets in the suburbs lol.  Great pics everyone

[ididntdidit 0]

were do you get the diagonal bridge in the first post?

[BurroDiablo 222]

You can't, Ididntdidit... he made that bridge himself and didn't upload.

If you read what was in the post you would have seen-

Originally posted by: david1314

Because of the extremly limited applications for this bridge, I don't see any real reason to release it.quote>

[paperboy15 4]

Originally posted by: dubphotek

Originally posted by: ExiL3I have never seen a city that is {..}100% non-Grid.quote>

You mean in RL?  London has a grid?!

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Yeah, you just gotta flip everything 45 degrees.

[Soapy 1]

I personaly like grid cities better, its easier for me to work with. But here is the most anti-grid part of my city, Union Town...




not much, but its the best your gonna see from me!

[david1314 44]

One of these days, I will turn this into a CJ.....until then, here is utter destruction of the grid!

[zzsim 3]

^ Please do turn that into a CJ, that is simple stunning, and the best example I have seen of a modern Venice style city.

[WJ_Webhog 12]

Nice one david1314! But how did you manage those diagonal road "bridges"? Have you done that with NAM Puzzle-Pieces? Regards

[sc4portugal 10]

wow great work y'all

[CarmineHilton 6]

Indeed some nice pics here.. especially the mosaic from david1314.

But why anti-grid? I just love the grid!

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

That is really nice, david1314!! It'd be great to see a CJ from you.

[SC4WTC 4]

i can see diagonal bridges !!!

[Glenni 1,445]

From my cj, Vandals Fjella, yes i know.. the parts further along the top is very griddy, but that is the planned part of the city, reaching up to the royal palace.

[sc4melbourne 0]

david, that canal city is amazing. Your definitely should turn it into a CJ. If we all could create cities like that, there'd be no need for an SC5!

[MasterPie 0]

[david1314 44]

It's been a while since I've had something for this thread....Here's something a bit different, it's totally grid, but not SC4 grid

Click for big version

[Tojglee (HUN) 2]

Wow, these pics are simply...Amazing!

Unfortunately, i love to build grid...

But i'll try to build some anti-grid!!!!!!

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

Great anti-grid!

Glenni, your pics were inspirational,as always

MasterPie: nice anti-grid farms

david: That looks cool!

[SCkid 0]

wow guys! these are amazing. i never really thought about going against the grid. because it makes things harder to build. but i really like the looks of it. i think i'm going to try that.

[City2TheMax 3]

Very cool pics everyone!

I can't show any pics right now since I don't want to go to the trouble to upload them. I also don't have many cities that veer away from the grid. I think that if a grid is used the right way it makes sense. I like creating US-style sprawling suburban cities (mainly because I moved to America and was interested in how they design the grids. It's a nice change of pace). The main reason I stick to the grid though is that I kinda suck at building non-gridded cities. They look too awkward.

[sc4portugal 10]

A new suburb.

[BurroDiablo 222]

david1314- Holy freaking god... its like another planet...