Sao Paulo - The Million City

[felipe 0]

   After five months of city planning (or 720 "Sim" years) and the misses having a baby half way through, I (or is that "Mayor Felipe"??)  am proud

 to bring you SAO PAULO. Of course this is not to be confused with the sprawling Brazilian metropolis it, er, slightly resembles as of course this 

Sao Paulo exists in the parallel world of SC4.

   

Planning

  Mayor Felipe's predecessors (or was it me?) decided to start the construction of the city to the south of the Rio Sao Paulo, here's an aerial picture 

taken a handful of years after it's birth.

 Wide open flat plains, a source of fresh water for drinking, industry and farming and a huge river for transport, could they possibly have picked a

 better place to start?

 The plan was for the main East-West and North-South roads to cross at Sao Paulo, the North-South road bridging the river to the North of the 

settlement. To the East of the city an industrial and port area were to be established, on the North bank of the river the airport was to be sited.

 The city was planned primarily for motorists, allowing only for the main East-West and North-South Railways, as well as a later South-East spur. 

Also envisioned was the future need for an underground system.

 

Development

  The bulk of the city’s early development was around the historic core, further spreading East to West South of the river, with not much urban sprawl 

to the North. Early on two major North-south and East West Freeways were built as well as and East-West Freeway North of the river linking the city 

to the Airport and the Industrial areas to the North East. We can see such development in this traffic view here:

A few dozen decades later and things really take off. Development is widespread in the North and the city has spread significantly East and South, to 

the east sprawl has emerged on the West bank of the Rio Sao Bernardo.

Today the “Million City” is immense, still heavily urbanised to the South of the River, but also with large development to the North as this Street map 

shows:

And this night time view shows the

[Cobra_nVidia 30]

It's looking good nice transit system

I think you need the BAT Night-light fix, since those buildings don't look abandoned but they have no night-lights.

[Schulmanator 5,799]

Excellent layout and your newspaper looks terrific. Please show us more!

[RJN 1]

Nice city planing, Nice Downtown and Nice Regional view! Good job!

[Explodingsims 3]

Intresting city layout. Great Night shot too.

[TRNSTN 0]

Congratz on the one million, can you give us a colour legend of what each line represents in the street layout map? This CJ is off to a good start!

[Kiwi n Grapes 2]

Great downtown pic and and great layout, looking out for more!

[jacqulina 162]

great start and intro my friend

[felipe 0]

Sorted, added a key to the streetmap

[vinvin du 13 0]

great begin

[hunkske 53]

Amazing transport layout!!!

[nottheboss 1]

cool start

[Benedict 3,119]

Great images - I love how realistic the region views are, development looks natural and the transit looks functional!

[super_monkey 0]

Your first CJ. I hope it goes well for you!

[Joetropian1 1]

Fantastic layout, and I love the city pic. You may need the nightlight fix, though.

JT1

[politicman 1]

It's so cool, nice CJ !!!

[Cleaner475 150]

Looks really nice - your off to a superb start, you've made a fantastic newspaper and overall a very neat introduction

Hope to see more of your great work,

Richard

[crazyarchitect 7]

looks like a great beginning so far, keep up the great work

[lucky7 73]

Wow, what a massive city, I like it!! May I ask how you did the night-shot of the entire region?? It looks awesome! Looking forward to more,

lucky7

[felipe 0]

The night time shot was a Region Census view image, cropped then colour reduced to two colours (black & white) & a tiny teensy bit of retouching.

[Zarp 0]

haha when I saw "Sao Paulo" I thought that finally someone had come up with a Brazilian city..

but nice work anyways, the CJ overall looks veeeeeeeery nice!

[Shingure 56]

Very nice Although it could use more custom content it is good. I thought that you had come up with a Brazilian City at first though but Like you said , It's your own version.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Ah, a very nice start! There are so many people, and that night shot of the region was just great! I'm looking forward to seeing some of the details! Keep it up!

[nottheboss 1]

looking foreward to the next update

[fern244 1]

Perfect intro. Couldnt have been any better! Great newspaper and congratulations on reaching one million! Ill be waiting for a new update!

[felipe 0]

Hi, inbetween nappy changes, time for a few more pictures.

The Past

  As a recently discovered archive picture shows, the centre of the city hasn't always been quite so High - Rise.

The city centre 50 years ago, notice the now demolished Coca-Cola building.

So where's the Cathedral then?

  Uh, here, on the south bank of the river, next to the SouthBank Opera House.

The Cathedral sits in a prime position right next to the river.

And this wider view shows the Cathedral inbetween the two main River bridges, you can also clearly see the heart of NorthBank.

What about a University?

  Glad you asked.

Here is the University District combining a wealth of cultural and educative institutions for the population.

[AceofSpades 1]

Wow! That's a very nice downtown I like the past shot! Great job.

[GreyStreak 0]

This is great! I love urban sprawls.

[DougOZ 0]

Wow Felipe, you are doing a pretty nice work in SP CJ, its a HUGE city, and a lot of comercial offices...i hope you keep doing it, i'll look forward..

(Boa Sorte)

[panthersimcity4 162]

I love your cities, but I have a suggestion.

There is a building on the STEX from Sao Paulo called the Banespa Building that would go perfectly in your city. There's a few other Sao Paulo landmarks as well like the old Patio de Colegio and an Art Museum.