La Fourche

[Evil Weasel 88]

UPDATE 3: Centreville

The downtown area of La Fourche, like most cities its size, contains a number of high rise office buildings surrounded by low and midrise 1940s architecture. While the actual CBD is quite safe, the surrounding midtown areas such as La Couillère (to the northwest) are rife with drugs and prostitution.

The centre d'affaires (CBD) is La Fourche's bisinuss centre, and most of it is clean and sanitary. Low rent costs and tax cutting have kept its skyscrapers occupied enough to keep the city's economy alive (albeit barely). The two buildings in the foreground were both constructed before 1950 and show signs of aging, as well as the occasional tenant-less floor.

The area was designed  before the city's collapse such that leafy treed areas surrounded each tower, providing open space for the office workers and lowering traffic clutter on the sidestreets. However, since hardly anyone is on the road outside of rush hour, these measures proved somewhat unecessary.

The ultra-modern bisinuss centre built in the 1990s, the double towers in the centre housing offices belonging to BMO, and sporting fake palm trees.

To the northwest of the CBD is La Couillère, with which we are already aquainted. It provides a transition from the downtown to the western ghettos. Most commuters avoid passing through it.

In the second update only the far northern corner was shown.

Seedy apartment buildings and aging run down crack-fortresses dominate the image of La Couillère.

The eastern part of downtown is less seedy, and contains more office buildings and open stores due to its proximity to the more affluent east-end (shown in update 1). Nevertheless it has little traffic.

The modern midrise office building, 300 Rue St Jean.

Another modern office building in the east, beside the La Fourche marina. The bridge just to the south of the image leads accross the river to south La Fourche.

Rowhomes dominate the midtown areas that form a semi circle around the downtown core (with the exception of the west). They are dotted with apartment complexes and schools. These ones are just to the northeast of the previous image.

More of eastern downtown's lowrise office buildings and apartments. Some abandonment is viseable in the image, but for the most part the east is not nearly as run down as the western side.

To the north of the CBD lies the arena of La Fourche's hockey club, le Centre Telus. Across the street is the hôpital générale and its infamously boring blank concrete front yard. La Fourche's team, Les Hermines, remains reasonably popular despite the abandonment of its city. Many former La Fourche residents who fled to Montréal continue to support it, creating a fan base "in exile".

Farther north, more row houses from the 30s and 40s. An elementary and high school serve the local residents.

[SirUnger 13]

Wow, awesome pics, I can't wait to see more!

[lifeless08 1]

Ye awesome pics, and how can u say this CJ sucks!! Honestly people put themselves down too hard, go and look at mine, youll see urs is about x10 better

[Evil Weasel 88]

Thank you for any comments!

that pic quality makes your city look horrible! quote>

Why thank you! That was the point.

you habe rowhouses right? how do you keep them from lack of commute time

mine always fail because of this. how do you keep your sims in that building?quote>

I don't. They're empty. Just eye candy.

Lifeless: complaining about people putting themselves down, then putting yourself down? Not very productive is it?

[Twenty20 28]

Very nice pictures, your mix of modern and old buildings is very well done, there's a lot of details in your city who make it very realistic.

[GMT 389]

some nice pictures here on these 2 pages. I like them, and what adds to it is the saturation effects

[GreekMan 246]

WOW. I like your downtown! keep up your horrible town! =)

[Evil Weasel 88]

Geekman: thank's, I try to make it awful. If anyone who watches this CJ actually desires to move to La Fourche, I've failed.

some nice pictures here on these 2 pages. I like them, and what adds to it is the saturation effectsquote>

Thanks alot! I used the "soften portrait" feature in Paint.NET.

Very nice pictures, your mix of modern and old buildings is very well done, there's a lot of details in your city who make it very realistic.quote>

Thanks! So far it doesn't actually cover a huge area so I can focus on the little things (I hope). Remains to be seen if I actually show the outer suburbs, might take too much time.

(Another mosiac, same thing but without the helicopter and with the downtown update taken into account I don't like how the west end (top of this image) looks, but I've got alot of blank spaces in the south side of the river that I haven't even started on.