Show us your Midtowns

[Evil Weasel 88]

I did some searches and nothing came up for this sort of thing. What I mean is a subject to show transitions from downtown to lowrise areas- "midtowns" as they say, or areas that are not suburban but not the CBD either. Like Toronto's St. Clair/Yonge area or New York's Brooklyn. I dunno.

[futurama2506sim 7]

Here's a picture of one of the many midtowns of mine at night.

[MCO1254 2]

This first area is East of Downtown Callahan. It is a nice area of the city, the schools are good, crime is low. It certainly isn't the most ritzy area of town. It is right along I-128 so there's easy access to downtown and the airport.

This second area is the outer edge of Downtown Bartlett. The city center is on an outcropping into a rather large lake and this area is on the inland side of downtown.

This is back in Callahan and just North of downtown. This area has seen a lot of mixed development and is a mix of middle class residential and medium size office firms. Gerald Avenue which you see in the picture has major traffic problems during rush hour, but due to the development along the road, there is little that can be done about it.

[Jay Ess 15]

Sorry to tell you futurama, but nobody can see the buildings in your picture (or at least I can't)

[Evil Weasel 88]

MCO1254: Your image linking system isn't working. Use the thing in the post maker thing (horrible use of the English language there, sorry!) otherwise they don't show up.

Nice midtowns however, all three images are quite realistic and the third is definetly northeastern US/easter Canada -ish. (I copied and pasted the links to the browser).

[MCO1254 2]

Sorry about them not working everybody. I realized they weren't working, but in the middle of editing the post I had to leave in a bit of hurry. I just now finished it almost 2 hours later. They're up now though. I'm glad you liked them. The region is set in the US and I've tried to base the design on cities that I've seen to make it as realistic as possible.

[Dellyking 0]

Here are my "midtowns". They are not actually part of a bigger city as of now, but I will probably integrate them into a large city.

Instead of using one type of zoning per block I use all types of density on a block.

So what do y'all think?

[aiumkastarkius 0]

Dellyking, those areas are really beautiful!

Here's my midtown:

[AxaphalEsteus 0]

eww aiumkaarkius that looks like crap. where are the farms

[aiumkastarkius 0]

Originally posted by: AxaphalEsteus

eww aiumkaarkius that looks like crap. where are the farmsquote>

Do you want to share one of your midtown views?

Or do you want to trash me?

[DITRO 15]

AxaphalEsteus, we don't do that here.  This is a supportive community.

This is a shot from Jefferson, near the foothills of a low mountain range.

[danielcote 9]

 Very nice development. Also good use of the SG hospital.

Dont listen to any negative light it shall blind you. I think youre City looks great

Nice Urban park arias.

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This is one of my mid towns.

Pretty romantic eh.

[MCO1254 2]

That looks great Daniel. Is that mostly grown or plopped?

[Isterlan 3]

nice work everyone, some of mine:

though they're not real  "midtowns" , I think housing estates are perfect for filling transition zones:

[aiumkastarkius 0]

I like those pics Isterlan, esp. 1st and second ones.

Here's another one of my midtowns:

This is a residential, park filled semi-urban area to a commerial district to the north.

[Retep Molinari 68]

Originally posted by: Isterlan

nice work everyone, some of mine:

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Where did you get that EL terminal !? I love it!

[Isterlan 3]

@ Retep Molinari

it's from this Japanese site, there are lots of cool stuff there:

yaplog.jp/waldorf/category_11/

[DITRO 15]

danielcote: thank you.  I like that building with the Michelin ad on its wall. Whats its name?

[QuinnTheEskimo 0]

oh just to comment on the description the midtown of Manhattan is the huge are between downtown and midtown which are on bedrock and the space in between is landfill. AWESOME IDEA.

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull work everyone

[Wrightguy0 40]

Originally posted by: Isterlan

@ Retep Molinari

it's from this Japanese site, there are lots of cool stuff there:

yaplog.jp/waldorf/category_11/

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This site has everything I looked for but couldn't find on the stex, thank you sooooooooo much.

[Retep Molinari 68]

Originally posted by: Wrightguy0

Originally posted by: Isterlan

@ Retep Molinari

it's from this Japanese site, there are lots of cool stuff there:

yaplog.jp/waldorf/category_11/

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This site has everything I looked for but couldn't find on the stex, thank you sooooooooo much.

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I was able to download it from the Japanese site. It's at the lower end of the page.

[danielcote 9]

 mostly grown all residentials grown 78% commercials ploped.

nice highrise condos!

nice city, reminds me of new york.

I like youre mixed style of art neauvo, art deco and euro contemporary.

[frdrcklim 139]

Evil Weasel, this is a great idea. I've been trying to make a midsize city and what better way than to get ideas here .

[mayorbk 66]

I agree, great idea, I'm going to have to get some mid-town pics up!! They're lookin great so far!!

[Wheezy 23]

These are from a CJ I'm working on called Acacia, which I hope to be ready sometime in the next decade.  (Memo to myself: Trying to build on a region made from 12 large city tiles is a HORRIBLE IDEA.)

The first two shots are from Lunsford City, a smaller city across the river.  (Think of it as Jersey City to Acacia's New York)

Finally, a construction pic:  This is a neigborhood of Acacia I'm working on.  It's taking forever to build.  (I have to plop large portions of it because trying to grow it gave me insane amounts of building repetition.)

[art128 4,622]

Excellent work on your Midtown Wheezy !!

[jacqulina 162]

excellent work

[LironTheChick 20]

Nice midtowns, everyone!

[aiumkastarkius 0]

The first two shots are from Lunsford City, a smaller city across the river.  (Think of it as Jersey City to Acacia's New York)quote>

Without the smell i'm guessing? That city looks like a place i could leave the door unlocked at night. In Jersey City they don't bother to lock their doors cause they'll get robbed anyway, and probably shot too.