Parkopolis

[Teeparex 6]

Table of Contents

Page 1

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Update 1- Downtown

Update 2- More Downtown

Update 3- West Suburbs

Page 2

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Update 4- Parkopolis International Airport

Update 5- Up-Uptown

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Page 3Update 6- Elsford Amusement Park

Update 7- Peninsula (part 1)

Update 8- Peninsula (part 2)Page 4

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Update 9- SeaportPage 5 Update 10- Downtown Revisited

Update 11- Suburban Progress

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Page 6

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Update 12- Uptown

Update 13- More 'Burbs

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Page 7

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Update 14- The outskirts

Update 15- More semi-rural areas

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Hello Simtropolis...again... (I havn't posted anything here for months until now)

I'll cut to the chase and tell you about Parkopolis; I plan for it to be a huge sprawling city, that looks similar in layout to cities like Chicago or Los Angeles, so there will be a lot of grid-streets initially. I also want it to have a lot of nice, big parks! (Hence the city name)

To achieve this city I have used the Super Demand Ordinance, and plopped many of the commercial buildings in downtown, although there are a few plops elsewhere.

ALSO I must say that for some reason, a glitch has occured with all public transport in my game so that they are completely useless, and rail takes a ridiculous amount of time to lay, compared to when this wasn't the case, for example a 20 tile long piece of track takes almost a whole minute to lay, so unfortunately that is why there is no buses, trains etc. in my city.

I'll show you a shot of the region I have developed so far:

For the first update I will start with the Downtown area!

This is the 'face' of downtown, that most people are familiar with. It showcases a section of the large waterfront park and some of the shiniest buildings in the world.

The largest buildings (in terms of interior space) in Parkopolis are located around the convention center. There are also some scarily expensive apartment buildings near it too.

More skyscrapers around the center of the financial district.

This picture shows the majority of downtown's waterfront park.

The Poseidon Tower is the newest building in this area and the tallest in Parkopolis. It is mostly hotel and office space, but the upper floors have some very nice apartments.

Now we move on to South Island, which has been linked to the mainland so that it's not really an island at all! However, it is almost a city in itself, despite it being relatively tiny.

This is the northern part of the island, with a few art deco, and gothic buildings.

More apartment buildings on the eastern side (and yes, you've probably seen these a million times before

The 'Trio' Highrises

And finally, some scattered buildings between parkland at night.

Hope you liked the first entry! There is certainly a lot more to show you later.

[Hawkeye9 0]

Wow, very nice start!!! I love the region views and the downtown area, I like the blend of buildings you used aswell as the greenery!!! Lookin forward to more of this cj!!!

[Schulmanator 5,787]

A fine start on your CJ. You have a bustling city to show us.

[Petrovar Ambassador 15]

awesome start man! i love the first shot, how everything is neat and tidy. hope to see more!

[Royal Guard 0]

Very nice job incorporating all the parks. I really like what you did with the Poseidon tower

[SounderBruce 173]

Good start...the area looks so griddy!

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Nice work. It looks like a very livable city!

[paroxysm 2]

Very nice! Beautiful downtown and skyline and VERY good map of the area. Will be checking in soon for more. Good luck!

[Evillions 552]

Despite the fact you don't have mass transit in your city. It does look rather awe-inspiring.

[Muck308 55]

Hey right to downtown! I like this cj a lot already. It is definately named appropriately. I like the fountain in the last pic. Are you thinking this region is on a lakeshore or a coastal shore? Just curious...

[SC4Poser-moser 0]

great start, good use of seawalls and the parks and plaza's around the city give it a good feel. I like the large city parks you have in your region. awesome downtown.

[TmiguelT 10]

nice downtown area my friend . looking forward to more.

[Teeparex 6]

Replies

Hawkeye9- Thanks for the very nice first reply

Schulmanator- Thanks! Parkopolis is bustling enough already, but right now it's only half, if not less, the size of the monster I plan it to be!

Petrovar Ambassador- Thanks for the reply!

Royal Guard- As soon as I saw the Poseidon on the stex I thought 'I'm having me one of those', lol.

ComputerGuy890100- Thanks! Theres something about the way grids light up at night that I like...but it won't all be grid.

edmonton_stinks- Yep, theres always a nice park nearby in Parkopolis

paroxysm- Thank you very much

Evillions- Yeah its a shame about the mass transit, as the city would have a lot more variety with it, but theres not much I can do about it now, even if I get them to work again.

Muck308- TBH, I havn't thought about what kind of shore this city is next to...I suppose it doesn't really matter right now. Let's just say its a large bed of water, haha!

SC4Poser-moser- Thanks for your reply. Glad you like my downtown too

TmiguelT- Glad your liking the city so far
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I was going to add the next update to this post as I have all the pictures ready, but it looks like I've left it a little late, so that will have to come tommorow afternoon.

Thanks everyone who replied for such positive responses though!

[Ace_F15 16]

I LOVE what you did by isolating that one tower on that little man-made plot of land. Your waterfront is awe inspiring, and your overall CJ so far is excellent. Keep on truckin'!

[antsel 841]

Wonderful looking city. As with some of the comments from above, I really like the isolated tower out in the water. Your downtown looks really good, especially with that park by the water front. Your region shot looks really too!

[mas1092 0]

I really like this. i like when people focus on parks because they are such a huge aspect of cities that sometimes aren't focused enough on

[fabsies55 5]

looking good man, you have nice region nice buildings, is great, well done.

[technicallydead 1]

COol city! Love looking on how the roads are designed. They have large road grids, which is my goal for my city, yet it took me four years to actually accomplish it.

[IDS2 3,346]

Holy crap!

That's really good!

Great first update and I absolutely can't wait to see the next, no lie. Amazing job!

[Nikferni 0]

The thing that happened to your public transsport happened me to

But, u fix it first, re install the nam and then euro road thingy again if u have it and make them left hand if ur Uk traffic.

[Keegan V50 15]

looks great!!...looking forward on these...

wish you all the best

victor

[Teeparex 6]

More replies

Ace_F15- Thank you for your reply

selles- Thanks for your reply too!

mas1092- Thanks!

fabsies55- Thanks!

jonpaulosiglos- Wow, four years? Must be a very detailed city then. Parkopolis is barely a week old!

IDS2- Wow, thanks!

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Update 2: More downtown area

This update will basically show some more of the area around downtown that didn't get covered in the first post, so I'll start with the biggest park in Parkopolis! It's so big it takes up a whole island!

This is a statue of the founder of the park. (I haven't thought of the name of the park yet) It was placed on a small island entirely surrounded by a moat.

These are the sports and recreational facilities on the lower end of the park. Soccer doesn't look very popular today!

Nice waterfalls. What more need be said?

This pic shows the lucky resident's apartments (the only ones on the island) plus the graveyard, which has a limited amount of space.

Heres what the whole park looks like from the air!

Now I'll show a few more photos of the best locations in the rest of the area...

This is so far my favourite of all the marinas in Parkopolis. It also contains the city zoo.

This is the government district on the east side of downtown, and features from left to right- Opera house, stock exchange, city hall, city court, and major library.

These are the huge apartment buildings near the government district and also the financial district.

Both the avenues bordering this park lead to the roundabout connecting South Island to the mainland.

Some of the older but still awesome buildings in Parkopolis

This is a sports park in the shopping area of downtown

Overview of the university and...hey! More parks

Daylight view of Parkopolis followed by...

...a nighttime one! 

Thats all folks! Hope you liked.

[The Arrowz 3]

I really like how the CBD looks. And the region view looks incredible.

But in my opinion it's not too realistic cause the main downtown area is only accessible by one side: the north. Most cities have at least two sides feeding into the city, that way it makes more sense for a CBD to develop since it's in the middle of two (or more) populated regions. Also, (just personally) I like cramped and high density downtowns without all those parks I want my sims to suffer!

Anyhow, looks great, looking forward to more pictures!

[SounderBruce 173]

Great work...where'd you get those parking lots next to the zoo?

[Muck308 55]

Simply put, that is really nice work. Great parks and I like the cemetary.

[Teeparex 6]

Replies

The Arrowz- Ahh, I see what you mean there. (Damn!)  Glad it hasn't put you off though!

ComputerGuy890100- Thanks. The parking lots came with a SimGolf pack I downloaded.

Muck308- Thank you!

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Update 3

I won't attach as many explanations to each pic for this update. I'll just let your eyes indulge mostly 

This pic shows all the changes made to the region since the first update. The main addition has been the international airport, which I will show you once I have developed the land around the airport.

Photoshopped pic to show what Parkopolis might look like at night.

[nottheboss 1]

YAY!! you're back

I gotta say I'm happy to see you back with somethin so great

Are you gonna run any of them interactive things this time?

So yeah great work and welcome back (YAY!!)

[SounderBruce 173]

Beautiful work!

[De Ja Vu 117]

Wow looks very nice! I like the photoshoped picture of the region a lot! How do you do it? Do you use "darken" or what?

Anyway keep up the good work!

[antsel 841]

Your city looks really nice. I love the CBD and all of the greenspace around it, you make some really nice parks. I really like the sprawl in the latest update, and of course more parks! I like how much you use those water lots, they look great. Also, that photoshoped showing us the region at night looks awesome! Keep it up!