Show us your Downtown!

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

A CBD I made in a experimental region:

[Alejandro24 575]

I like your CBD Nathan... It is just simple, nothing complicated.

Forests CBD:

[Roger51 381]

Just a small shot from me

[Timmystwin 201]

Now they are some nice shots.

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

The Downtown Area of Astoria, a beachfront town:

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

The skyline of Madisonville, showing the resort hotels and condos by the ocean:

[Evillions 552]

Just two shots from my recent city, will plan on expanding soon.

[Ion_Cannon 677]

How do you manage to retain so much clarity in your pictures, anything I upload to imageshack seems to suffer a serious decrease in quality. Do you play with AA on?

[Evillions 552]

How do you manage to retain so much clarity in your pictures, anything I upload to imageshack seems to suffer a serious decrease in quality. Do you play with AA on?

Use photobucket and play with the highest graphic settings.

[Josh6 873]

@Roger51. Your picture looks awsome. The waterfront park makes it look realistic

[ThePilotGuy 10]

What's your best Downtown view?

Show The Community.

I thought the old was getting too long and hard to navigate (over 1200 replies, wow!). I created this new one for convenience.

You can give the credit for the idea of the thread to Hordijk, because he is the original creator of the thread.

  Edited May 30, 2011 by MasterBuilder  

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Well, I know I posted these in the old thread, but I will put them back up:

Downtown Madisonville, showing the resort hotels and condos:

Downtown Pheonix

My link(As it is a large moasic)

Downtown Boston:

CBD of West Tempe:

[quicksilver991 37]

I like the pics. May I ask where you got this building?

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

I like the pics. May I ask where you got this building?

That is One Starr Center

[francisc 6]

do you guys use any mods or something like that to have those nice buildings?

[SLagonia 71]

The downtown of my new little paradise;

The large golden tower is The LOD Financial Center. Tower one is not only the tallest in the region, but in the entire multi-region area, surpassing the Shindra Tower by 1.5 stories (3 stories without spires).

Slightly to the east, the large, yet short building is Federation Plaza, home to the Allied Nation General Assembly. It is shown in detail below;

In the forground, two large malls dominate the area in front of the financial center, mainly to keep the area open so the inhabitants have a better view of the river (unpictured to the south).

Other notes; The parks are due to the school within Civic Tower (the blue one to the east of the financial center). The building in Federation Plaza's immediate forground is The Sal Lagonia Cultural Center, which is a rather large, multi-purpose concert hall. The highway at left is the eastern spur of the inner inner beltway, connecting I10 and I12, which run across the region from East to West. The area is accessable by subway, monorail, bus and car. It is also available by ferry via bus.

[antsel 841]

Here is some development in downtown Ellis around the intersection of King St. and Central Ave.

[diamonddog_74 32]

Pincknon, a smaller city across the bay from my main urban center:

  Edited June 14, 2011 by diamonddog_74  

[CutlassCieraFan 22]

Here's the downtown of a newer city of mine, Arbor Penninsula:

...and yes, I know almost everything in that pic is Maxis default... I wouldn't mind getting some custom content to replace it, but there are so many buildings in the game and mods on the Web its hard to know where to begin

[Trillian2003 33]

Very Nice!

[TowerDude 2,187]

Something American ! D:

[thecvr 19]

Here's my current favorite...

[Liberater444 11]

Towerdude...that's amazing!

[diamonddog_74 32]

Here's my current favorite...

@Thecvr: Beautiful downtown! It's a very Chicago-like city.

I love your city's density, but at the same time your use of space. The buildings don't look too crowded, and though you used some ploppables, you chose to put them in locations where they seem to have developed on their own. It's very much the approach I take.

Plus, I love Art Deco cities. All the textures and colors make them more interesting than Modern or Post-Modern glass curtain boxes (and now tubes).

I'd love to see more of this city.

[Eʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ 273]

Oh, wow. I love this photo. It's blended in so well and you've done a perfect job keeping the buildings a fair distance apart as well. I always end up seeing CBDs which look so crowded, so this is a nice change. Very nice work.

[panthersimcity4 162]

thecvr and Towerdude, your cities look great, and very real.

Here's San Lorenzo! This picture is slightly outdated since I've done some alterations to the city, but it shows a good view of the skyline anyways:

Here's a newer picture, during the late afternoon fog.

Unfortunately most, if not all of the downtown CBD is plopped, because I'm a control freak when it comes to Simcity4.

  Edited June 24, 2011 by panthersimcity4  

[6y4ever 12]

I have two downtowns in the city i'm working on now :

The old downtown :

The new downtown :

[lloydyboy232 12]

thecvr and Towerdude, your cities look great, and very real.

Here's San Lorenzo! This picture is slightly outdated since I've done some alterations to the city, but it shows a good view of the skyline anyways:

Here's a newer picture, during the late afternoon fog.

Unfortunately most, if not all of the downtown CBD is plopped, because I'm a control freak when it comes to Simcity4.

Beauty!!

[TowerDude 2,187]

Something European now ! it's called jyväskylä

[thecvr 19]

Here's my current favorite...

@Thecvr: Beautiful downtown! It's a very Chicago-like city.

I love your city's density, but at the same time your use of space. The buildings don't look too crowded, and though you used some ploppables, you chose to put them in locations where they seem to have developed on their own. It's very much the approach I take.

Plus, I love Art Deco cities. All the textures and colors make them more interesting than Modern or Post-Modern glass curtain boxes (and now tubes).

I'd love to see more of this city.

posted a few others here as well:

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/index.php?app=forums&module=forums&section=findpost&pid=1166351