Show us your Downtown!

[ThomassamohT 1]

WOW

All these pictures are just soo amazing!

[soyerabtu 0]

[Ratbowl 0]

Here's the main downtown of my favorite city with a horrible name, Neu Cita:

This the eastern end of a long island. It's surrounded by several small-to-medium sized satellite islands, used for suburban and medium-density areas.

Downtown is the central big-business area. It's where you'd find most of the salarymen and headquarters of multinationals.

Midtown on the other hand has a bit more personality. It's surrounded more directly by residential areas of people with lots of different ethnic and economic backgrounds, so the shops are more interesting and there are a lot more nightlife type activities - theaters, bars, coffee shops with music venues. The high rises here are more likely to be advertising firms, publishing houses, record labels, and Web2.0 companies, while the Downtown is more populated by financial firms, construction companies, and major companies that make products like cars, furniture, and medications. Downtown also has some high-tech industrial factories, on lots that were rezoned in an effort to rescue Downtown from urban decay after the Dotcom bubble burst and left many of Downtown's high-rises abandoned and unmaintained.

You can see the Boutique District just east of the main drag, and the historic Theatre Row to the north, approaching a neighborhood that has gone downhill in the last twenty years or so. Just a couple of blocks past the edge of the picture, you would have to start looking out for street gangs and crack dealers. For some reason, the area just east of Theatre Row is mostly taken up by travel agencies.

Here's a shot of the area in between the two high-density business districts:

Almost everyone in the two islands to the north commute on the ferry every day into Downtown or the rest of the main island. Arrowhead Island, to the south, is also mostly a bedroom city, but it has a bit of its own commerce and industry on the western shore.

The two districts between the north shore of the main island and the northernmost highway are North Beach (to the left) and Marina Drive, the luxury hotel area. Continuing south across the highway from Marina Drive is Maple Hill, with the Marina Bluffs Medical Research Center (overlooking the T interchange). Farther south (past the central highway) is Maple Valley, and the Maple Valley Industrial Area and the John C. Bender Memorial Bridge (named after the man who designed the bridge but died before the controversial environmental-impact statement was approved). The majority of the MVI Area was filled in; it used to be a beautiful beach. So it goes. The MVI brings in lots of crucial tax money to a city budget that is frequently in the red, and the Bender Bridge spreads the congestion of almost 40,000 people crossing daily into twice as many lanes as the old bridge.

I'd do the third, smaller downtown area in the northeast of the main island, or another of the satellite islands, but they're kind of boring. I haven't done a CJ for Neu Cita because I'm kind of lazy, but if enough people express interest, I might make one. Hopefully it would be better written than this post since it's now 3:34 AM.

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull work everyone downtowns are looking good

[Craig91 12]

Here's some from my newest city, Anora. You can see more in my CJ

[TruWarriorRon 0]

Welcome my friends to downtown Cleveland.  There are not many buildings offered for Cleveland so I tried my best to make it resemble the actual city. Hope you like.

[art128 4,618]

awesome picture everyone !

[Porter 68]

Hmmm... 

I don't think I ever posted these in here... 

Here's my current project... complete with with what i feel to be the top pictures from it... 

North View, Downtown Teaser

South View, Downtown Teaser

Downtown in Snowstorm, Update 1.1

Central Plaza Snowy Morning, Update 1.2

Hope you all enjoyed them!

Jacob

[TruWarriorRon 0]

How did you get the snow?

[Godzillaman 21]

Originally posted by: TruWarriorRon How did you get the snow?quote>

A magical tool called "Photoshop"...

Nice CBD porter.

[Boycey08 0]

here are some shots of my downtown commercial area in one of my large city tiles, the commercial districts are seperated from the residential & high tech industry by a large highway

there are 4 commercial districts in the centre of the tile that im going to show you, hope you enjoy

[mk2328 0]

this is my comercial city of Nova Betnava Center

Please post .JPEGs

[rushman5 33]

Here's a current version of a midtown CBD by the park

Images 800x600 max

[steelersfanforlife 43]

Here is Downtown Aversa

https://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh248/steelersarecool/Simcity%204/Aversa-Sep25241235868963.png

Please post .JPEGs - abcvs

[Porter 68]

Shhhh Godzillaman....

You can't expose my 'ancient chinese secret'!

Actually though, it was just practice with photoshop. Lots and lots of practice. And carpal tunnel. Lots of that too.

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

peronally i prefer more realistic cbd's, but it is good to see variety

[SirUnger 13]

This is the southern downtown of North Haron, the capital of my CJ Manhillton.

at day:

and at night:

and this is the modern part of North Haron:

If you like these pics you can visit my CJ, there are waiting some more cool pics.

[Sim-Yorker 0]

Here's a midtown district of my 1940's style American city. This is the only part of the city thats photographable yet. If I ever get enough time to spend on it, I'd be able to put together a CJ about it.

Please post .JPEGs - abcvs

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull downtowns everyone

[Jawzz 0]

Rushman how did u get that tunnel texture?

I mean the one on right of the picture...

[zangle06 0]

this is old and the nuildings have gottent taller but i thought i put this in

[Wrightguy0 40]

These Shots are of Empire city, the first picture is the CBD in 1922, and the next one is from 1926

[chicagoflo 8]

Wright guy, the first picture reminds me of Chicago. once the whole city is developed it will look great!

[chicagoflo 8]

Wright guy, the first picture reminds me of Chicago. once the whole city is developed it will look great!

[Boycey08 0]

sirunger and zangle did you grow your downtowns or plop em? i recognise some buildings as grown buildings, but theres an awful lot that are foreign to me

they look nice either way, but i just prefer grown cities

[zangle06 0]

YH boycey i grew them from the cam pack download it its good just type in cam pack torrent  in goolge and go to the pireate bay website

[Muck308 55]

nice work, folks.

[Jawzz 0]

Originally posted by: rushman5 Here's a current version of a midtown CBD by the park

quote>

How did u get that tunnel rushman please answer me... I mean the one to the right...

[Boycey08 0]

i dont have rush hour (yet) and i dont trust torrents anyway

i was just curious

[masochist 111]

Oh, yeah. You need Rush Hour to use custom buildings.

And downloading SC4 content via torrents or other such packs that weren't distributed by the creators is highly frowned upon (if not illegal). Actually, if you download a CAM torrent and have problems with it, chances are you'll get no support whatsoever.