Show us your Ghettos

[Mr Saturn64 742]

Another ghetto of mine. 

 

[mrsmartman 200]

How did you manage to get buildings of similar style? Plopping on existing residential building? Plopping landmark? Waiting for the building to grow?

[clhigh7 583]

...and the thread title shows that this is a thread dedicated to sharing and commenting pictures of your SimGhettos, so try to keep politics out of it.

 

@ clhigh7: I especially like the last pic. Although this is a personal impression and by no means based on any evidence or general truth, a "ghetto" is something rather urban for me, whereas your first screenshots simply show low-wealth suburbs IMO. The grunge and the crumby shops do more for a certain ghetto appeal in these pictures. The screenshots are still great, though.

 

@ Huston: Is there any chance of a non-photoshopped pic?

 

Thanks! I understand what your saying. Your observation is exactly what I was aiming for when I developed these areas. I wanted to build an older suburban area that has decayed from the influx of low wealth commerce and apartments. The area did not begin as a nasty cesspool, it just became one 

[jmsepe 2,039]

I think you plopped them Saturn but nevertheless it looks good.

[Mr Saturn64 742]

I actually didn't plop them.  They grew, but then again, I don't have many R$ buildings installed, so those came up.  Then I saw that and couldn't resist.

[clhigh7 583]

The 2nd ward, South Charlet.

 

Before this small loading area became obsolete, it was the crown jewel of water based trade and manufacturing in the region. The neighborhood was never prominent or wealthy but it had many jobs and provided decent housing for the working class in it's heyday. Several factors over the years have dealt many blow's to the 2nd wards economy and it has never been able to recover.

 

 

 

 

 

[dogma555 187]

I think you plopped them Saturn but nevertheless it looks good.

 

Could have just gotten lucky.. dosen't the game have a certain tendency to grow the same or similar buildings? Or did I download a mod for that or something? Sometimes I've had to delete BATs because they would simply appear too much... So if you build enough, you'll eventually end up with a small area like that just by pure chance to make for a good screencap.

 

You could also do things with your plugin folder.. like say.. make a folder full of "NYC" style buildings and limit the plugins to that, and temporarilly deal with the brown boxes elsewhere while the style or building you want is free to grow..and then add the rest of the plugins back once complete.

 

Anyway, this isn't that "ghetto" but it's got that gentrified vibe to it:

 

[MushyMushy 3,618]

The 2nd ward, South Charlet.

 

Before this small loading area became obsolete, it was the crown jewel of water based trade and manufacturing in the region. The neighborhood was never prominent or wealthy but it had many jobs and provided decent housing for the working class in it's heyday. Several factors over the years have dealt many blow's to the 2nd wards economy and it has never been able to recover.

 

 

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It's beautifully ugly!

 

Anyone know the name of (or have a link to!) the building with the water tower-looking thing? Thanks~

[jmsepe 2,039]

 

I think you plopped them Saturn but nevertheless it looks good.

 

Could have just gotten lucky.. dosen't the game have a certain tendency to grow the same or similar buildings? Or did I download a mod for that or something? Sometimes I've had to delete BATs because they would simply appear too much... So if you build enough, you'll eventually end up with a small area like that just by pure chance to make for a good screencap.

 

You could also do things with your plugin folder.. like say.. make a folder full of "NYC" style buildings and limit the plugins to that, and temporarilly deal with the brown boxes elsewhere while the style or building you want is free to grow..and then add the rest of the plugins back once complete.

 

Anyway, this isn't that "ghetto" but it's got that gentrified vibe to it:

 

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In my case I have the block maxis mod. Oh silly me, of course with such mod everything that grows in my city are only custom contents. 

[T Wrecks 10,210]

 

Anyone know the name of (or have a link to!) the building with the water tower-looking thing? Thanks~

 

The tall and narrow one near the harbour? That would be part of NYBT ABBT's recent package. The factory with the large, rusted water tower is one of the BATs simhottoddy did for BSP.

 

Once I'm in here anyway, I might as well say that this is one of the best ghetto shots I've seen in here, clhigh7!

[Josh6 873]

Dense buildings around the EL

 

 

[mrsmartman 200]

^ Two to three corner stations connected together could create the effect of a turnaround station like South Ferry Loop.

[antsel 841]

Looks great Josh!

[sys12189 21]

Dedjer City: Medium city tile housing 350K Sims, and that's with all medium density zoning. The entire theme of this city was a ghetto-like version with a few commercial shops and some small offices who recovered from the 2008 economic crisis a bit . Even in this ghetto, education doesn't hit rock bottom (where I live, education is considered a necessity. Even the poorest parents will send their kids up to high school), usually I try to keep them around the 50 mark, when I-D doesn't quite die down yet, and I-M demand begins to rise. The dominant tileset is Houston with a tiny amount of Euro/NY mixed in, creating the bright grayish mid-rise apartment blocks stretching out into eternity.... well, until the city borders. Of course, very few cars on the road (not many would really try to afford them) and buses and subways are instead crowded with the common people.

 

(Sorry for the bump, but I thought my low-down R$ bedroom community would best be put here......)

  Edited August 15, 2015 by sys12189  

[citycowboy 183]

The 2nd ward, South Charlet.

 

Before this small loading area became obsolete, it was the crown jewel of water based trade and manufacturing in the region. The neighborhood was never prominent or wealthy but it had many jobs and provided decent housing for the working class in it's heyday. Several factors over the years have dealt many blow's to the 2nd wards economy and it has never been able to recover.

 

 

<snip>

 

It's beautifully ugly!

 

Anyone know the name of (or have a link to!) the building with the water tower-looking thing? Thanks~

that's Miller Street Manufacturing

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/22890-bsp-miller-street-manufacturing/

the link won't work but you highlight copy and paste it you can get it.

The real building, pictured below, is located in one of America's most pristine neighborhoods ever of all time.

 

have a wonderful day.

[Lucario Boricua 7,052]

What am I doing wrong that's making my cities gentrify with so much ease?  Been trying to start some run-down neighborhoods but the medium density residential areas keep flooding with luxury condos!

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Yes, once you've mastered the game, it's actually astonishingly easy. I know that feeling. You really need to work to get desirability down far enough - for example by not offering civic services, by leaving out parks and plazas altogether, and maybe by adding some industry to get some pollution and truck traffic going, increasing pollution even further due to noise and exhaust emissions.

On the demand side, you can temporarily increase taxes for better-off Sims to choke all demand.

Once the desired buildings have grown, I strongly recommend making them all historical even though it's tedious. Once you have protected them from being replaced by higher-value stuff, you can add civic services and parks.

 

An example would be one of those council housing complexes, i.e. mass housing for the poor. These are often "satellite towns", made up of high-rise apartment buildings and surrounded by grass areas and sports facilities. The problem is, most grass areas and sports facilities (and even generic game assets such as embankments and even MMP trees) enhance desirability. So even if you don't sculpt lush parks and plop libraries, museums and hospitals, you may find that the zones you made for those council flats get occupied by medium-wealth or even high-wealth buildings!

You can alleviate this problem by laying out only the zones and roads for the time being, letting the desired stuff grow, making all buildings historical, and finishing the surroundings only afterwards, as a last step.

On a side note, slightly crumby buildings in a nice environment can develop an interesting kind of charm! Then again, some pure grime also has a certain appeal...

[CT14 2,486]

While working on improving my variety of high growth stage residential lots, I culled these lot sizes from the three readme files on the NYC Housing Projects:

NYC Housing Projects Set 1: https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1873

NYC Housing Projects Set 2: https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1981

NYC Housing Projects Set 3: https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2092

Size breakdowns to make it easier to get the lot you want:

4x4: Bedford-Stuyvesant Houses, Brownsville Houses, Frederick Douglass Houses

5x2: Hylan Houses, Queensbridge Houses, Redfern Houses

5x5: Riverdale Houses, Bennett Houses, Jacob Riis Houses, Breukelen Houses, Bushwick Houses, Marlboro Houses, Edgemere Houses, Mulford Gardens, Wyckoff Gardens

5x10: Gowanus Houses, Lillian Wald Houses

10x5: Mott Haven Houses, Highbridge Houses, Clifton Houses, Millbrook Houses, Patterson Houses

10x10: Bronxdale Houses, Boston-Secor Houses, Edenwald Houses, Castle Hill Houses, Randell-Balcom Houses, Ravenswood Houses, Marcy Houses, Nostrand Houses, Sheepshead Bay Houses, Astoria Houses, Cypress Hill Houses, Throgs Neck Houses

15x5: Melrose Houses, Soundview Houses, Vandeveer Houses, Woodside Houses

15x10: Linden Houses

15x15: Ingersoll-Whitman Houses, Harlem River Houses

[peperodriguez2710 138]

What happens to a neighborhood when you build a freeway through it...

[andrew garber 6]

South City 

[korver 27,686]

Recreation of a favela I made during 2016 (not shown yet in a show us thread) - located outside São Paulo, Brazil.

More South American scenes available in my "South America + Bonus Pictures" update here.

 

[Arn71 804]

Inner city neighbourhood, a bit run down, by many considered to be a ghetto.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Just north of the CBD

[korver 27,686]

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

East Sault Ste. Marie projects.

[korver 27,686]

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

The Biggest Ghetto in the city, this area is known as Bayview.

[SimRico 968]

Lots of old pics are missing due to old storage sites folding under or once-free sites charging to regain access to original files.  Here's a blast from the past of a long lost video footage . aerial view of the Pork-n-Beans Housing Community (constructed 1951. Torn down 1997)

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Wallibuk 1,966]

[korver 27,686]

Awesome work @Wallibuk!

Maybe we'll see these FA houses on the STEX soon?