Urland, a (mostly) rural coastline

[wouanagaine 86]

WELCOME ON PAGE 20:!!

Really impressive work, I really like how the farms mix with the town. And the smooth hills give it a great touch of reality

[Kwakelaar 92]

I very much enjoyed your over-view of Gleiwemunde. I think you have managed to make a nice transition from your rural areas to the big city. There must be hours of planning and building in this update.

[Fox 1,444]

Your Cities look so well established that they almost depict some real World location. I really enjoy looking at the pictures you are posting of your Cities.

I like the waterfronts from your previous updates and really love the old World charm of all those Xannepan bats you've used through out your City Journal.

I look forward to future updates and seeing how you develop your City further out and up.

[Battlecat 14]

Nice update!  Your rural - urban interface looks great.  It actually reminds me a lot of the area where I live, right on the boundary where farms are slowly being eaten up by urban development. 

[Pinchman 0]

Hi Bernhard!

Wooouuuu Weeeee!!! Did you see that?! Of course you've created it! So amazing! 

I can't beleive how the transition from farms to dense city is nicely done. Perfect!

I really like the look of the farms on pic.15-108. 

Pic.15-112 is my favorite, I really like where you placed the Statue of Liberty with the park around it. The two big buildings at the upper left end with the pink brick highrise near them makes together a great effet into this european area.

Where did you find this marvellous church? (oh! btw, thank you so much for the link of RP2004's Sixhome row).

Pic. 15-100 is exactly what i'm trying to do. I'm also creating european cities and I wish some day having a result like the one on that pic. John is right about the pink building, it fit there.

Great update(s) my friend and I'm looking foward to your next one.

-Pinchman

[soldyne 111]

I am stunned by the realism and detail. the mix of urban and rural is amazing. this is the kind of effect I hope to achive in my own cities, and I will use your CJ as my inspiration, thank you for making this.

[Nardo69 51]

Hello to All!

Last time we were looking to Gleiwemünde, this time we will again in medias res - Klein Paris - Small Paris - is waiting for us! But before I start with the update:

anubis89: Thanks for the compliment! And since you lobe the last one I guess you will enjoy this update!

justanothersim86: Thanks for the compliment! Actually the highway is not a "sunken" but a "walled" highway as I put two rather long noise reduction walls next to them. You can see it clearly in Update 15.8 which is Update 15.10 (I should renumber them correctly sometime).

And about the railways - one thing why I do love the rather radical BRF TunnelAndSlope mod is that it forces you to a good and realistic railwaylayout - with dams as well as sunken ones (otherwise you cannot make a railway network at all...)

Faciocb: Thanks for the compliment! And you're welcome, as John (Darmok) often says in AVR, it is your support that keeps this CJ alive!

latazyo: Thanks for the compliment. And isn't it interesting about the associations those pics make as I was trying to a rather "German" town since I am German... !?

John (Darmok): Well, of course there are some problems if the country folks are parking their dirty tractor in front of the city falks' brand new, freshly washed SUVs (that never leave asphalt streets in ther lifetime) but all in all evryone profits from each other ...

The city folks get fresh vegetable, eggs and meat from the country folks for a reasonable price and the country falks can made some extra bucks by selling those fresh vegetables, eggs and meats directly to the city folks ...

had been like this and will be like this I guess ...

Phil (PhilsCafe): I made 11 updates without showing you the whole map as I did not wanted to show you the "whole pic" too early. But then I felt I should show them now to help you getting the picture (using your words). Yes, the transition is a bit sharp buit I do love how it came out and I may still convert some farms to subburbs. Bu right now I don't want to since I like the skyline of Gleiwemünde!

Tommy_Vercetti3: Well, especially at sloped waterfronts sometimes really strange thing may happen if you plop a lot "in the wrong way" ... Glad you liked the last one, hopefully you like the following, too!

MasterPlanMan: I guess you are not the only one that I surprised with these views. But even though I am more the rural builder that does not mean I don't do urban at all - see the "mostly" in my CJ's name ... Glad you like it and I hope you like the next update, too!

sloppet: I hope you are not too disappointed when I have to say I am a German who lives in Turkey because of his wife ...

frndofyaweh: Hello my friend! long time no see! And thanks for the compliment! Especially since I did not follow the rule "highrise in the middle and then decrease height and density to the edges" ...

jacqulina: Thanks for the compliment my friend! Hope you like the next one, too!

BTW ... did you mention the "special" quote in the Altstadt - Update?

wouanagaine: Thanks for the compliment and for opening page 20!

 About the hills I do agree with you, IRL there are gflat and hilly farms, and since I com from a rather hilly area (Northern Black Forrest) I do love those hills even though it is sometimes rather hard to build on them ...

Kwakelaar: Actually I began Gleiwemünde more than half a year ago.

Obviously I began with the rural belt before I-AG Demand dropped into nirvhana. For the urban areas itself I began several center spots (Nordstadt, the highrises area around central station, the harbour and the commercials at the cloverleaf) and then let them frow together.

As I plop infrastructure almost allways at paused game and then let my zones grow at medium speed I did spend quite a lot of time in Gleiwemünde (as well as in my other cities).

One reason (another one is heavy RLS) why I cannot do more than one update per week and sometimes even need more time for an update ...

Fox: Wow! Thanks for the compliment! As I said in my answer to Kwakelaar one update before I always have some problems as they look to .. well, Kwakelaar said open air museum alike ... Anyway I guess here they fit! And I do hope you like my use of Porkissimo's great BATs, too!

Battlecat: Glad you like it. Actually it is easier to make the urban - rural interface on the city tile's border but like a lot of other things less easy means quite some times more beautiful ...

Pinchman: Wow! Thanks for the compliment! You really do love it! About the Statue of Liberty, well, there is a story about in the update ... hope you like it!

The plaza in 15.100 came out better than I thought. Some folks don't like the big mayor'S statue but as everything it looks good in the right environment.

About the church: As far as I remember it is the Berner Münster St. Vinzenz. I haven't found the link by now and since it is one of my oldest plugins I have to search the source where i found it. I post a link as soon as I wil have found it! Promise!

soldyne: Thanks for the compliment and you are welcome! Feel free to get inspired - that's what the CJ are for, aren't they? Without the inpsiration I got from other CJs I would not have been able to make Urland at all!

BTW I am a bit disappointed. I quoted a fery famous film two times(!) in the Gleiwemünde updates and it seems noone seemed to recognize it ..

Anyway, let's start

Update 15.13: Klein Paris

The quarter on the peninsula we are now visiting is called Klein Paris - Small Paris due to its buildings from late 19th century and its most famous ... err... etablissement. Until 1856 it has been the quarter of sailors, prostitues and daytollers. Then due to the catastrophic hygenic conditions in 1856 the cholera broke out and killed approximately 5500 people - mainly on the peninsula. To prevent this (and because the rich and beautiful discovered that the peninsula could be a nice place to live!) the poor houses have been demolished and a sewer system and in 1909 even a subway system installed. The streets though follow the old mainstreets of the daytoller quarter.

Due to its proximity to the water the quarter survived WW II rather untouched as there haven't much detonation bombs and the fires of the Phosphor bombs could be extuinguished rather fast. After the war in the fifties and sixties it was hip to move into the new build highrises. The quarter came down a bit and with the poor workers the prostitutes and striptease bars came back.

In the seventies the municipality started a program to renovate Klein Paris and began to push out the red light bars out of the quarter. Only the biggest and most famous of them survived untill today ...

In 1859 (17 years before the statue of liberty shold be erected in NY) when the first parts of the quarter was cleared by the poor men houses some people had the plan to replace the lighthouse with a fancy statue of the old celtic goddes Glewa, the goddes of the Gleiwe river that should show the way home for the sailors with its light.

However the project was an expensive one! And in the first seven years of the project not even 15 % of the costs could be collected by varous lotteries and other beneficial events. The wars of 1866 and 1870/71 stopped all activities for the statue.

Even though after the war of 1870/71 the collection went on the construction could not began because of a notoric lack of money.

When in 1886 finally the Statue of Liberty was erected in NY still not even half of the money was collected. Instead the people of Gleiwemünde became REALLY angry of those french-american copycats that copied "their" statue. It was not completely true of course, the Glena statue was smaller (only 39 meters) but the anger was sufficient to collect the remaining money within three years so that the construction of the "true statue of liberty" could begin in early 1890. After one year of construction the statue was finished. It was never able to replace the old lighthouse however as due to too cheap materials and some mistakes in the statical calculation (Gustave Eiffel did not helped out here!) the statue was never strong enough to carry a lighthouse light.

Together with the construction of the new houses Gleiwemünde got its new Townhall in 1882 in a quite representative area close to the Glewa statue and the Kaiser-Wilhelm Denkmal.

In the late sixties some investor found the rather attractive real estate in Klein Paris and erected two highrises and a office building for an international computer company. They should stay the only sins in Small Paris as the municpality restricted heavily the erection of new buildings and protected the facades of the old building very strictly.

Let's walk back to Phil's cafe through the streets of Small Paris.

In my schooltime my French teacher once played an old song - I think from Jacques Brel: "Paris s'eveille"... I can hear its melody when I see this quarter ...

I may have forgotten them rather often, but not for Small Paris: some Nightshots:

That's it for today - Hope you like it ...

@All: Have Fun!

Bernhard

[latazyo 0]

wow, thanks for another update...how the heck do you get away with streets in those dense looking areas?

I like the modern buildings and the moulin rouge...oh yeah...and nice statue of liberty!

[wouanagaine 86]

Impressive update !

Those sunrise pics and night pics are so excellent !

Looks like paris ( I'm working at paris ) with all those bats!

Keep it up !

[Darmok 34]

Bernhard, this was a great one!

Little Paris is "une petite merveille", the Statue's story is really  fun reading! If it's not strong enough to hold a lighthouse light, perhaps it could hold at least a red light and could become as famous as the Manneken Pis!

Ha! the Moulin Rouge, I think I begin to envy Toulouse Lautrec! But where's the "Folies Bergères"?

Those night pics are great looking indeed, especially Porkissimo's libray, such a beautiful bat ain't it?

All in all, just love it, the ambiance is really there.

Enjoy your weekend my friend!

Machs Gut!

[sloppet 3]

Great update Nardo! I love that Little Pari' Keep it up! You're doing a great job here!

[pikatchoum 2]

Nice update!!

I love the night views,especially the last one with the light house

[GMT 389]

great update on klein paris...

can't wait to see more

[anubis89 108]

this is amazing !!!! really cool part of the city ! i love it

[Cjah 15]

Excellent use of marrests walls....

I like the french style bats and the statue of liberty looks cool!

[Kwakelaar 92]

Nice update from Klein Paris. The layout and the combination of mostly old with some new buildings are making this district in Gleiwemunde looking quite realistic and distinct from the rest of the city. Also the small stories about the area is adding to the experience.

[PhilsCafe 8]

Great update once again Bernhard.

I love Klein Paris, looks very French. I guess my favorite spot would be the Red Moulin or maybe still Phil's Café? Thanks a lot for that honour. I like dancing, I'm not talented at all though, but I like watching good dancers anyway  .

Have you seen Moulin Rouge with Nicole Kidman? There is that song at the beginning 'Complainte de la Butte'. That song crossed my mind when I saw that quarter. Very nice job my friend. And the night shots are an excellent finale to this update.

I'm looking forward to your next update. Take care.

- Phil

[Fabiocb 1]

great Nardo, and to me the best feature is that path right beside the Market, a simply but it adds a charm and realism.

the water front with that corner and lighthouse is great and even the moder residential towers on border of the historial are look great.

[purpledaddy 6]

Hey I'm actually continuing to enjoy your history and cultural lessons. I also think the red windmill on The Moulin Rouge is cool!

[Rayden 7]

Someone led me today to this thread when I told him about one of my weaknesses, transit network layout, specially railroad layout. I was expecting to find some kind of tutorial about. I'm not disappointed I didn't, "on contraire", I found another great CJ, from where I took some notes and learned a few tricks. Congrats goes on double today, for your magnificent job done with this journal and...

... for one year of Urland, a (mostly) rural coast... (created in June 5th, 2005)

Cheers

Rayden

[Battlecat 14]

Wow!  That last update looks fantastic!  The old European style appartments look amazing!  The night shots look really cool as well.  

Congratulations on making 1 year with your journal!  May there be many more!

[Nardo69 51]

Hello to All!

Before I start the answer section I have to say the following:

Sorry for more than a month of no update!

I really had a bat CRS - Cummulative Reallife Syndrom as I explained before in AVR - lots of work, my boss, really bad toothache, a business trip to Moscow anda lost boot partition  .. Lost three months of digital photos but fortunately Urland and most of its pics survived (ask my wife what's the good part of the news... )

And now the World Soccer Championship consumes some of my time, too ...

It is hard when you are far away from home when your national team is going to win the cup in your home country and you can't go there ...

BTW, Urland's first anniversairy was 10 days ago ...! hmm, I had no chance to prepare something special, gonna have to that the next time I guess ...

But now, like always:

latazyo: Thanks for the compliment!  Actually, there is not that much traffic in Little Paris since it is a peninsula, furthermore some of those plopped BATs are Landmarks without jobs

wouanagaine: I haven't been in Paris for at least 20 years, but I am glad that could catch a bit of its atmosphere for "Petit Paris" ..

John(Darmok):  Well, as I wrote before, only the biggest one did survive the sweep in the seventies - the "Folies Bergères" as the nr. 2 had to close some years ago ...

BTW nice way how you remind me about making a new update ...

sloppet: Thanks for the compliment! Hope it did not hurt too bad when "my" team send "your" team home - it was a great game anyway, wasn't it?

pikatchoum: Thanks for the compliment!

GMT: Thanks for the compliment! Sorry that it took a bit longer than normal ... BTW: I like the last line of your sig!!!!

anubis89: Thanks for the compliment!

Cjah: Thanks for the compliment! Actually I tried the statue of liberty in a similar situation long ago in one of my early regions but that point at the end of the peninsula really made it!

Kwakelaar: Thanks for the compliment! Actually the next update will have a different character again - as I said before Gleiwemünde has a lot of different faces!

Those small stories - faction, isn't it? Thing is IMHO if you do an european town you should have a certain history of the place in your head - not all details but the red plot as european cities in gerneral are rather old unlike most american towns.

PhilsCafe: Thanks for the compliment my friend. I guess the dancing is something we have in common ... . Sorry that you had to wait a bit but I guess this is something we have in common, too ...

Fabiocb: I guess you are right  with the small details - they tie everthing together.

purpledaddy: Thanks for the compliment. Yeah, the "Moulin Rouge" is definately a highlight in porkissimo!s oeuvre though a bit hard to plop as it needs the right neighbourhood ...! About the stories, see my comment to Kwakelaar!

Rayden: Thanks for the compliment and welcome to my humble CJ! Glad you like it. humm, and about the railroad tutorial, well, lets see what I can do some day ...

And of corse thanks for the anniversary post!!!

Battlecat: Thanks for the compliment and the anniversary wish!

So, let's start now with

Update 15.14: The Hafenviertel / Harbour quarter

The harbour quarter around the harbour (as its name says) is a rather heterogene mix of everything - industry, commercials and a bit residential. Due to its proximity to the harbour it suffered heavy damage in the bombing raids of WWII. The demolitions of "bad housing substance" in the fifties continued to eliminate the historic face of this area. It is hard to tell today what was worse ...

Friedrich Ebert (1871-1925) Member of the SPD (Social democratic party of Germany), from 1913 Chairman of the SPD and from 1919-1925 first president of the Weimarer Republic.

Willy Brandt (1913-1992) Member of the SPD . Mayor of Berlin from 1957-1966, foreign minister of the BR Deutschland (West Germany)  from 1966-1969 and the first social democratic Chancelor from 1969-1974. For his policy of opening towards eastern Europe he recieved the Nobel prize for peace in 1971.

This shoud have been my first GLR experience... after a couple of CTD I gave up ...

Then I tried the el.Train on the road with the same result and came up with classic el.Train.

There is no embankment next to the ferry as the terrain is sloped there and the results with Jeroni'S first seawalls (texture based) were not really ... well they just did not fit...

As you can see I made some experiments with the ingame small plazas. Looking back not such a good idea - marrast's great avenue divider looks way better IMHO ...

Gleiwemünde is a rather old town - 300 ingame years, and as the C$$ turned to C$$$ the nice I-DT and I-M turned into I-HT with some exceptions that I made historic. Way less pollution but from the asthetical view I prefer it ... dirty.

And a final nightshot.

The theme of the next update will be "The only way is up" so stay tuned ...

@All: Hace Fun!

Bernhard

[mightygoose 92]

great update, your work is brilliant...

[wouanagaine 86]

Ah at least

I was wondering if my subscription was working

Hope the trip in Moscow was not too cold

Hopefully you have made a backup, that is a good thing !

I really like the industrial part with all thoses railroads !

Take care!

[S70 0]

I had a great time reading up to here. Nice job, Nardo69!

[ThePeoplesPerson 3]

Wow your city looks great!

[Yoman3 5]

Just Found this Cj and great job it rly looks very very very good]

Kinda like the southern coast of france!

[Darmok 34]

Hi Bernhard,

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The reminder??? Ah, you mean when I told Sylvio (Rayden), to come see Urland for some railway inspiration! hehehe.... every trick in the book to get you back into the game my friend!

And it was worth it!

I always like your small history lessons, very informative snippets.

I didn't know about Friedrich Ebert, but Willy Brandt was part of the actuality when I finished High School.

The update:

I like the way your downtowns are created, no skyscraper, lots of medium sized office, sometimes a bigger one, this is more like my actual environment.

I'm kind of surprised about your GLR CTD problems, I've also read those stories in other CJ's, In Osgiliath I think I had only two GLR crash related to the GLR. Both times because I hovered, I think it was a GLR to EL connection OVER a GLR station, besides that it worked very well.

On the other hand your EL setup looks good!

15.132, I really like the way you created those avenues with a central section with walkways and bus stops.

15.133, that appartment building, is really great looking (the grey, with smal touches of green/turquoise touches) I think it's a Maxis original hey, it never grew in my cities...

15.126, nice transition between the commercial and industrial/port sector, Jeroni's walls used judiciously here!

You see, that wasn't so hard!

I think I'll send more and more people here! 

Seriously, very good work my friend, glad to see you back into it.

See you next update and enjoy your weekend.

P.S. Good luck in the World Cup!

[Fabiocb 1]

great Bernhard, I love the way you make you tracks (rail,el, subway) they cross each other and come and go, and great work on the terraces close to the industrial port.

[Kwakelaar 92]

Another aspect of Gleiwemunde, great to see a new update from you, I have surely missed Urland for some time now.

Great use of railroads and El-rail and nicely layed out with the avenues. The area itself is a bit non-descript just like you would expect to find in any major (European) city.

And I do agree with you that the dirty industry looks better than the Hi-tech, you have actually played this city for 300 years ingame, woah!