Parkland - Adventures In Realism - Established 2004

[lucky7 73]

Very nice teaser, I am really looking forward to further developments,

lucky7

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

Parkland skyline is dominated by residential towers, and that includes its tallest....

Dont worry, it is still realistic... check out austin to see where i got inspiration for my skyline...

This is the Ritz Carlton Hotel and Residence Tower in Parkland

Stats :

Height : 801 ft

Floors : 50

Hotel Floors : 18

Amenities Floors : 2

Residential Floors : 30

[tostartpressanykey 2]

interesting. im curious to see the REST of the city

[GreekMan 246]

cool stuff! looking forward to more

[SounderBruce 173]

Nice quickfacts!

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

development is taking a bit longer than i thought... but here is a teaser to keep you up

[SounderBruce 173]

Downtown looks very nice!

[Muck308 55]

I can't wait to see it full color... that last one makes my peepers hurt!

[Larks2242 251]

Cool picture of downtown, i like how it is all red!

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

here is the north part of downtown... it is a bit of a mess at the moment, but i am working on south part of  downtown

click for larger image

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

i recieved a comment in the CJ section that i felt was very relevant and give a little insight into how i go about working on Parkland.... here is the question, followed by my response...

comment:

i have been looking at your

CJ

and i do not get a thing.

Why did you lay out transportations before the growth of the city? You have immediately created some big road ring around the city, but i thought that comes when a city really needs. If i am not mistaking you have done some jump in the future of 20 years and then missed some part of the natural growth. So is this natural growth or not? Regards.

 

response:

but im going in a certain direction with my

cj

, and higher will come later. it is natural-esque growth. it is modeled after many many real world american cities and has the natural growth look. it is a recreation, not of one city, but american cities. i have a vision of what i want my "end product" to look like, and i lay out roads first. then i create the infill as i have imagined it. once i get it all there, i then treat it like a real city and grow it out from there.

[Roger51 381]

Awsome work as usual, the layout and detail in every section is truely outstanding.

[TmiguelT 10]

spectacular !!

[Muck308 55]

Very nice. I must have studied that pic for almost 10 minutes!

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

haha @muck308, im glad i could get the attention to it

thanks for all the comments! i will hopefully have south of downtown up in the next few days or week.

[penguin007 27]

Awesome downtown area there very realistic

Will

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

just a quick fact i just did the math on... inside the downtown loop, the population is 10,657 located in various high rises and low rises

[tostartpressanykey 2]

oh my god this is the greatest thing ive ever seen, im jealous

[crazychickensc12 84]

I had to stop by to take a look at this and tell you I am really impressed. Love the curving avenue very realistic n the GLR is fantastic. That picture was amazing I had fun looking though all the details. I also like the single track railroad you used even more to add to realism! Curious to see what it looks like south of that especially with 4 highways leading south!! Can't wait to see some more fantastic work keep it up my friend I will be back in here!

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

oh no no... thats west, the screen is turned... lol... and there is only one "highway" leading that direction. i needed an elevated bridge that looked more realistic for the avenues that crossed the river.. i never thought to think people might think those were all highways going across the river

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

Sorry it has been so long since the last update. I will have one soon.

It has been quite the hectic time here where i live in Nashville. We lost our house and one of our cars. We lost almost everything in the house and are displaced for a short few months while we try and build back again.

Here are some pics to show you whats going on...

These are after the waters started going back down and they let some people back in my neighborhood.... I waded about half a mile down the street in chest deep water. the water got about 4 feet into the house and the house already sits up 3 feet anyways because of flood plain laws in TN

[Mayorm 14]

Sorry to see these pics, good luck with everything. I wish you all the best recovering from the floods.

[Francis90b 748]

Sad sight indeed!

I wish you best of luck with RL and i hope you can recover soon!

You have a nice CJ here, i've just noticed it, therefore i think i'll go to read it from the beginning !

[Roger51 381]

Sorry to hear about this, hope everything can get back to normal quickly.

[hmm 17]

Man thats heavy... Hope the waters clear out soon and you can start rebuilding as soon as possible. I got some family down there going to Meharry, she said the flooding wasnt too bad, but then again theres a whole city beyond that campus that you dont get to see...

Just noticed your CJ, and that downtown pic was one of the most realistic I've seen in a long time. Never understood how to tie in surface parking to CBD's like that and get the same results in my own regions. I guess living in the big apple has clouded my vision and I just dont know how to create cities like the ones that exist in the other 99% of the U.S.

Well Im off to catch up on the rest of your earlier posts, good luck man, hope everything dries out quickly!

[thatmonkeysim 8]

newyorkrunaway1:

I hope all is going to be well with you home life... I know it must be crazy... I saw everything on the news and I bet its much worse.

But anyway at the topic at hand here...

This CJ is giving me the itch to get back to playing SC4 again

AMAZING detail!

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

thank you all for your thoughts! they are very much appreciated! I finally have internet back, and somewhat of a makeshift office set up, so, although im not promising an update soon, with all thats going on, i am trying to find time to work on the city, so i can work towards that new update, whenever it may be

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

Parkland is changing....

[GreekMan 246]

hope you get back on track with liffe and SC! i like the new parkland and hope you stay with it!

those pics are terrible! move to San Diego where we have no floods but lots of sun!

[Benedict 3,119]

I'm looking forward to the changes.