Pastel Row Houses

[jmusacha 2]

Zoning a row of 1x2 medium density residental along a street sometimes (rarely, in my experience) leads to the construction of a row of the "pastel row house."  Does anyone else find this to be immensely aesthetically pleasing?  Much more so than your regular middle-class apartment buildings that normally grown in an area zoned such.  Does anyone know of ways to encourage the growth of the Pastel Row Houses?

[Aro0w 1]

I personally like that too

if by Pastel houses you mean modern apartments?

And no, other than lowering taxes, zoning the right sizes or just plopping them...

[jmusacha 2]

No, I mean a building called "Pastel Row House."  Its a 1x2 two-storey building with a brightly painted facade.  I should have added in my original post that the streets in my city that have the most of them is a polluted neighbourhood on a slight hill between two massive (dirty & manufacturing) industrial areas.  In short, its not a very nice neighbourhood.  Kind of a gritty urban working-class area.

[Aro0w 1]

Oh, well I was thinking about these:

[hmm 17]

I also like too reserve parts of my cities as row house districts. They work well when used as a buffer between light residential and meduium residential zones. However instead of zoning medium density and leaving it up to chance try this technique; alternating between medium rediential and high density resdential zones per tile. I found this technique by searching the forums.

Ex:

S = street

H = high density

M = medium density

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

S M H M H M H M H M H M H S

S H M H M H M H M H M H M S

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

the alternating high and medium density tiles prevent anything larger than 1x2 building footprint from being built.

Hopes this helps you!

[Keegan V50 15]

Yeah,the Pastel Row houses are attractive,but there is a building similar or nearly the same like it (correct me if im wrong) which is the 3 Story Row House

Ill get a pic of it btw...

*Edit* and yes the 3 story row house is different from the pastel row house

Here are the pics

Pastel Row House.

2 Story Row House.

3 Story Row House.

Modern Apartments.

Well this buildings are a common sight in my city if its zoned 1x1 or 1x2 in medium density residential,it grows most of the time.

Anyways hope this helps!!

[Muck308 55]

This is something I've been working on for years. The Pastel Row House is one of the buildings that keeps me from using the No Maxis Buildings Mod. I usually focus on a n are no larger than several blocks and simply bulldoze anything that isn't what I want. After locking the building style. The 3 story row house seems to come up much more often for me, so I end up with many of those mixed in with what I had wanted all pastel row houses. But a quick and easy fix would be lotting ti yourself. I've done this with other apartments.

[mayor_brando 8]

I heard that zoning alternate medium and high-density zones gives you a much better chance of getting rowhouses.

That's what I did here, and I'm getting lots of different rowhouses; Stone, Pastel, 2-Story, 3-Story, and Brownstone. Now I have to wait for the lower wealth to become medium-wealth and they'll build more rowhomes.

I like the older styles better for some reason, just looks bettter to me. My favorite would probably be ethier the 3-Story rowhouse or the Brownstone.

[zurrabear 20]

Agreed, Pastel Row House is nice, if a bit less than realistic (I defintely like a mix of color and realism, and it has both to some extent).  The STEX has some nice row house structures, as shown here.  These are called Madison Houses and Roosevelt Houses. I generally prefer a 19th to early 20th centruy look, and I think these look wonderful.

[Aro0w 1]

this has turned into a "show me your..." thread...

[RedImperator 16]

I have entire cities where ALL the residential structures are rowhouses. The alternating medium/high density trick works flawlessly. Getting one specific type of rowhouse is trickier, though.

[newyorka 26]

Agreed, Pastel Row House is nice, if a bit less than realistic (I defintely like a mix of color and realism, and it has both to some extent).  The STEX has some nice row house structures, as shown here.  These are called Madison Houses and Roosevelt Houses. I generally prefer a 19th to early 20th centruy look, and I think these look wonderful.

This is nice, where did you download them from.

These are all nice! Please tell me where you downloaded them from. Oh, and by the way, all of those brownstones and row houses had basements so there actually a story higher than what you said they were in the descriptions.(Brownstones ARE ALWAYS at least 3 stories high.)

[Turjan 1,048]

These are all nice! Please tell me where you downloaded them from. Oh, and by the way, all of those brownstones and row houses had basements so there actually a story higher than what you said they were in the descriptions.(Brownstones ARE ALWAYS at least 3 stories high.)

 

 

Well, that post you quoted is 4 years old, so good luck with keeping up the conversation . Anyway, the houses you are looking for are on the STEX.

[timmie 988]

Thread locked since it is 4 years old, and the question of newyorka is answered.

-timmie