Show us your Downtown!

[simlink 1,098]

Nice futuristic downtown, looks very cool.

[rubberduck3y6 45]

@felano: Nice! I like the day and night in one picture effect as well.

[Fox 1,444]

Very cool.. love the variety of buildings..

[dohraymii 430]

Newly renovated mall in Jack's Crossing:

[Forthwall 1,118]

Very Nice work

@felano - Epic

A part of Downtown, but not the CBD.

[RepublicMaster 428]

Nice Stuff Forth

[Higu 52]

Part of downtown Cleveland along Cleveland Avenue. AH-4 can be seen to the left

[mastorofpuppetz 199]

Here's some pictures of the downtown of Ocean Side, my best city. (population in the 4km x 4km square: 699,708. Est. pop in entire city: 800,000. Total metro pop (est): 1,200,000)

Downtown Ocean Side from the east.

Downtown from another angle.

And from another angle.

Another angle. The country club is in the way of expansion, but when I tore it down, the sims started complaining. So it'll have to be built around.

Some skyscrapers branched off from downtown, and development in this area is expected to increase more rapidly than development in the downtown area.

And from another angle.

The Herman B. Haupt Memorial Bridge, which connects Capital City Island with the mainland, and downtown. About 6,000 people take it to work.

Royal Square. This is where rallies are held, and where the Head of State gives speaches.

These are pics I took yesterday. Next time I play this city, I'll grab a night shot.

How do you change the angle? How do you get a popukation so high? seems to me most maps are way too small...

[TahR 31]

Well, this is my downtown, residential part - not the CBD.

But I have a question. It maybe is a dumb question, or a question which has been asked frequently, but how do I get such high office towers in my CBD? (Image above isn't my CBD, but in my CBD I have some higher buildings, but not as high as on the first page, for example.) My city counts now about 160,000 people, is that enough?

[Simcitymaster13 27]

@TahR Easiest way is with cheats. Hard way actual playing the game and building up the demand for CO$$$ and CS$$$.

[westy177 203]

Downtown in one of my smaller cities.

[Darth Apple 54]

@westy177: Nice!

@Tahr: You have to get very large cities before you see giant high-rises. I usually don't begin to see taller buildings until at least 400,000-500,000 in my cities.

[wwetom1 831]

[Charlie_Zane 963]

There are so many quality downtowns everyone!

Here's an image of my latest Downtown, maybe I'll turn it into a CJ some time.. Not the best image, had to crop a few together.

And a closer look at the central park.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

wwetom1, that's an awesome shot! Do I see a lot of custom lotting and a Maxis texture replacement there? Anyway, good building choice. I also like how not everything is pure eye candy and bling - but that makes it all the more pleasant to look at for my taste.

[champloo08 16]

My favorite suburban office district I've created so far. Its the second largest office district behind my core city. The suburb has largest collection of financial institutions, has a large convention center surrounded my many hotel chains, and features a country club plaza that also features high end retail like Louis Vuitton, Versace, and Hermes.

[Mithrik 562]

Whoa... now those are big parking places.

[kellydale2003 2,276]

I like seeing other people's downtowns! haha Great job everyone!

This isn't quite my downtown... But it was supposed to be! To the left of the photo is the downtown, but it used to be the airport. I figured it would be better to build on empty land than build over expensive land (in theory). So the initial downtown space turned into this midtown which is just kind of like a jumble of infrastructure... possibly on of my accidental most realistic areas that I've made haha

[simlink 1,098]

Looks awesome! Since most area infrastructure is a jumbled mess, I suppose that's why it is so realistic.

Seriously, though, that does look awesome.

[zimmie 521]

@kellydale2003

I think alot of the realism comes from how well you adapted to the terrain using multi-level height's and hills, etc. That's what I actually strive for each time I begin and so often end up just flattening things all out and taking away any chance of having alot of character. Looks great, all those little details!

[wwetom1 831]

wwetom1, that's an awesome shot! Do I see a lot of custom lotting and a Maxis texture replacement there? Anyway, good building choice. I also like how not everything is pure eye candy and bling - but that makes it all the more pleasant to look at for my taste.

Yes you do! I've relotted most everything.

[champloo08 16]

Whoa... now those are big parking places.

Need a lot of parking for those office workers

[OldTurtle 53]

Sky City. Population: 1.1 million.

Close up of CBD:

[Fargo 562]

Very nice. But, what sidewalk mod are you using?

[macvirt 361]

I've started a new city. I'm just going for a general European (not too dense) city, but are there any particular cities it looks like?

If I may ask, where does the center park come from? Is that a bat, or clever use of park tiles?

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

I've started a new city. I'm just going for a general European (not too dense) city, but are there any particular cities it looks like?

If I may ask, where does the center park come from? Is that a bat, or clever use of park tiles?

I believe it came from a university pack; it's a college quadrangle (it's one lot).

[T Wrecks 10,210]

wwetom1, that's an awesome shot! Do I see a lot of custom lotting and a Maxis texture replacement there? Anyway, good building choice. I also like how not everything is pure eye candy and bling - but that makes it all the more pleasant to look at for my taste.

Yes you do! I've relotted most everything.

It's really funny because I re-modded and re-lotted all of KS_JPN's superb skyscrapers for personal use, too - and my Worldwide Plaza lot looks quite a bit like yours.

[The Wrench 24]

Something that I am currently working on. Barely finished.

And the city's name is Twilight Bay.

[zahrul3 472]

The downtown(north to the right)

....connects to this satellite downtown to the north of the aforementioned downtown

To put it in context, both pictures are from my own CJ and is connected by a commercial strip following the path of the avenue. One is more 'touristy' while the other is on the 'office' side of things. City population is 56.500 spread over 2 tiles

*Note: Top pic shows old photo, 2 new R$$$ condos have been built to the north of the park(where 2 mansions are side by side) and 2 of the tenement buildings(the ones that are not grey) have been replaced by R$$ condos.

[Xander Dax 310]

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

Love this downtown, what are the diagonal buildings in the center of the image? (with the blue/green glass windows).