Show us your Downtown!

[mrbisonm 1,620]

I thought I might as well throw in some pics from my personal most beautiful City, Gloryville, the Capitol of the *Nexis of Genesis*'s Region. It has now 463,699 residents.

Here is a shot taken from the westside at night.

 

 

What I call the Plaisance Harbour, which touches the Downtown area.

 

 

The Space Museum, right in the middle of the City. In Front is the Nexis Electronics HQ Building, the highest Skyscraper in the City.

 

 

The big Meeting Plaza, just beside the Administration Office on the left, which is on the other side of the Plaisance harbour, still in Downtown.

 

Mainstreet at 5:10 AM.

 

 

The Central Plaza at Noon.

 

 

And finally a look of Downtown from the east, again at night.

 

Hope you enjoyed the views.

 

[the Monkeys Uncle 35]

I really like this one with all the vertical lines.

[FavreKev04 13]

Some of these downtown look but ugly. I mean you can't just overload them with huge skyscrapers that much

[scififan68 23]

I over load my downtowns with tall buildings too.Thoes views are cool.

[tyronne 0]

bourneid - that is a very cool chinatown!  good job

[nofunk 1,933]

Hey Dr. Neitchskrimfrauwnmoya and the Monkey's Uncle: I really like your screenshots because they look like they could be actual pictures of a downtown! Very realistic!!

[comdude21 6]

Date: 5/30/2005 1:56:13 PM
Author: Cresent

Here's my city of Balta, Kansas. The city proper is about 45,000 with 150,000 in the metro. It's the largest city in my region.

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It might not be big, but that is the most realistic downtown posted so far in this thread. That's incredibly realistic! It reminds me of paletexan's stuff. I'd recommend starting a CJ on that city, or at least posting some other pictures of it.

As for the skylines of my cities, I'll post them later, although there are plenty of downtown pictures of my city Ocean Point in its CJ.

[Cresent 1]

Thank's comdude21. I was planning to do a CJ but backed out of it, but now I might start one. If I do it will be about a week or 2 away as there is a few cities in my region that I want some real growth in before showing them off. I base my cities out of my surrondings as alot of big cities around me have small or moderate downtowns, nothing like those others except mabe Charlotte.  

[ehatch2279 0]

Haven't posted before, but I came across this and thought I'd show what I *hope* is my more realistic downtown (it's what I was trying to go for).  The city has a modest downtown with the surrounding area all light-density zoning.  It's an all-in-one city (all RCI is in this city; hardly anything in the adjacent areas) with a population of roughly 150,000.
 
City status: complete.  No more work will be done on it, I've moved on to another area.
 
BTW, great job on all those downtowns!  Big, small, skyscraper jungles, no skyscrapers at all, I like 'em all.  Variety is good - it'd be a shame if everyone did the same thing.

 

 

Sorry for the WAY zoomed-out view, but it's the only one I've got without going back into the game and taking another one (I'm really just too lazy to do it).

[ephorex_77 0]

Nice first post ehatch. Those two plateaus look very strange . I really like the look of that downtown.

Maybe you could show us a zoomed in view of your downtown .

[lollipop guild leader 0]

Might as well continue the tradition of nighttime downtown views.  This first shot is whet I first discivered the art of plopping and I might have gotten carried away, it's a little ridiculous.  All the buildings in the center island were plopped and they're the only commercial lots in the entire city, the rest is high density R$$ and R$$$, presumably, it's been a while.

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//France-downtown.jpg align=baseline>

 

This next shot is the downtown feeder city for three other cities that come to a point at this one cross point.  I still love the look of it, even if it is a little silly to have one city composed entirely of commerical lots.  The three Pan Pacific buildings were plopped, most everything else was grown as you can tell from the numerous Wrens and Yates and whatever that tan one is called. 

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//Japan-downtown.jpg align=baseline>

 

Let me know what you think.

[Fairlane500 8]

Here's some of my smaller town downtowns from my Concord Islands CJ.

Grand Fork:

http://img288.echo.cx/img288/1362/33014vh.jpg align=baseline>

 

Sandy Fields:

http://img261.echo.cx/img261/1775/34025wi.jpg align=baseline>

 

Washburn:

http://img123.echo.cx/img123/9802/generalstore0mt.jpg align=baseline>

 

I'll add some more later.

[lollipop guild leader 0]

Date: 6/1/2005 12:25:44 PM Author: pimhordijk1989 I Think it's a little too much=UGLY (sorry)

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I know, I just liked to see all the different buildings.  The plopping definately got out of hand, but I'm working more at realism now. 

[Mr. Cortez 11]

Hi, I'm Mr. Cortez...first-time poster/long-time viewer, and this is my downtown view:

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//anastasia.JPG align=baseline>

 

This picture is from my website of the city's mass transit system I am working on.

[wolverine 12]

Three Rivers

No, it's not meant to look like New York. So please don't bother stating innacuracies

[ehatch2279 0]

Date: 6/1/2005 5:22:11 AM Author: ephorex_77

Nice first post ehatch. Those two plateaus look very strange . I really like the look of that downtown.

Maybe you could show us a zoomed in view of your downtown .

Ask and you shall receive!  Took a few more shots today.

 

 

 

 

 

The best part of viewing other people's cities is getting ideas for your own....I know I am! 

 

Wolverine, I like your New York-style city (I know you said it's not, but it does look like it).  Great job! 

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

These are some great pics!!!

[nofunk 1,933]

All of these photos you guys have posted are awesome!! Here are a few photos from my largest city, Triton!

First, a view of downtown Triton looking east. In the lower left-hand corner you can see the large, dual train stations that bring thousands of commuters in to work each morning:



Next, another view of downtown looking north, this time at night:



Finally, Windspear Arena peaks out from behind skyscrapers:



Hope you guys like them!

[ephorex_77 0]

Thanks for the pics ehatch, the second pictures look especially nice .

Like nofunk, I think that the best part of viewing this awesome pictures if the inspiration that you get. The worst part is the unavoidable feeling of jealousy and inadequacy that you get .

 

I'm gonna cry now...*sob*

[Cayenne 0]

I play Simcity4Deluxe for like 2 weeks now. I had city of 100.000 residents (30000com jobs and 8000industry jobs) but the biggest commercial building only had 1000 wrokers and looked like Rock Bottom Terrace :-\ (CO$$$ demand was quite high)

My question is what city/region population size you need for skyscrapers to develop?

Btw i'm working an a city now it has only 46000 residents yet (70000 in region) but no nice downtown so i'll post later

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

This isnt the place to ask questions, please search the stex, as this has been asked many many times by noobs. so please search. Thank you, and keep up the work guys, great pics!!! I wil soon post mine!!!

[Superstar 69]

Just for the sake of it here is a little downtown I built while I was bored a while ago

[Hordijk 18]

Well now he did ask it I will answer it but next time try to find your answer on the other forums.

For Skyscrapers you need a commercial population of more than 40000 before any skyscrapers show up. OK

 

BTW,

Wolverine your city looks a lot like new york

 

(just kidding)

[nofunk 1,933]

cayenne: My understanding is that the equation is pretty simple. The greater your regional population, the better chances are for you to develop more and bigger skyscrapers. I'll usually see a few pop up as I'm nearing 100,000. (I'd probably see them sooner but I don't zone high-density commercial that soon.) And then as your population continues to grow, the demand caps are filled for larger and more diverse comm. buildings. The city in my pictures has about 800,000 residents.

superstar: Woah! What is that j-shaped building behind the Mellona Bank in your first picture?!

[Superstar 69]

Date: 6/2/2005 1:00:46 PM
Author: nofunk
superstar: Woah! What is that j-shaped building behind the Mellona Bank in your first picture?!

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Is a huge police station, think I got it from the exchange here...it's kinda old in my BAT list

[Fairlane500 8]

Here are some more of my smaller downtowns:

 

The city of Eastland:

http://img61.exs.cx/img61/7372/downtown1dg.jpg align=baseline>

 

Ediz Hook:

http://img149.exs.cx/img149/5877/downtown2ci.jpg align=baseline>

 

My personal favorite, Hamilton:

http://img115.exs.cx/img115/5969/downtown6vf.jpg align=baseline>

 

And one of my most real, the town of Norwalk Canyon:

http://img195.exs.cx/img195/4531/norwalkcanyon2in.jpg align=baseline>

[Fee_Nicks 7]

Date: 5/30/2005 4:57:53 AM Author: ephorex_77

Now this is MY kind of thread, hope it stays active for a long time . Should've made one ages ago when I was still a $%&^! .

Anyway, here a couple of pictures from my city Urbania (common name I know )

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//1111Urbania-Aug.%2025,%205101115456146.jpg align=baseline>

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//1111Urbania-Aug.%2025,%205101115456769.jpg align=baseline>

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//111111Urbania-Aug.%2025,%205101115456619.jpg align=baseline>

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//1111Urbania-Aug.%2025,%205101115456893.jpg align=baseline>

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//1111Urbania-Aug.%2025,%205101115457209.jpg align=baseline>

Please note, no cheats were used in the construction of this city (pre-NAM too ). Also, only 10-15% of the buildings were plopped. The rest grew (those pesky Mori Towers and Djoella Industries ).

Commercial pop. approx. 1,500,000

Residential pop. approx. 1,050,000

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Where did you get the conical tower?

[ephorex_77 0]

LOL, I was tempted to hit the 'reply' button but I think I'll pass .

Umm...which conical tower exactly are you after?? Could you indicate the picture number and maybe the colour and/or position of the tower mentioned??

 

Btw, newyorkrunaway, IMO that was a bit harsh, your reply to cayenne. He's new in case you didn't quite notice in your admirable haste .

[nedal2001 285]

This is the downtown of a city I worked on a few months ago. The city was about 80,000 - 90,000 in size.  

 

http://www.imgcity.net/server/primary/riveriacitydec26221098953015co.jpg align=baseline>

[Prophet42 1,501]

Some of these downtowns are just amazing.  One of these days I'll have to post some shots of my downtown (if I ever find the time ).