Seneca

[Chrysler Guy2 0]

Hello all...

I haven't posted much, but I've been here a few months viewing some of the great cities posted here and downloading many of the great mods and lots.

 

I would like to apologize in advance for these being pngs.  I realize pngs are frowned upon here, but the thumbnail program I am working with doesn't allow me to convert these to pngs.

 

Well, lets start off.

This is a city which is now about 200 years old, and I am still working on. I'll start out with some of the earlier pics and then give you a teaser.  If you think it's worth me posting the rest of the city's story here, please speak up.   i would have no problem filling you all in on the history, but I wouldn't like to be posting the city and not getting any attention to it.

 

Let's start off.

I apologize for the lack of a region overview and general land overview, but there really isn't much. Aside form an airport, there are no other sculpted cities in the region and the land which this city is based off is basically just a branching out river.

 

My goal when creating cities is realism.  Sometimes I will turn a demand cheat on, simply to fill in an area, then turn it off to let it 'settle.'  I do a lot of 'skyline control,' meaning that if a building becomes repetitive poorly suited to its area, or too advanced for its era, I likely demolish it.  Keep in mind that this is not a cheat free city.

 

Thanks so much to all the 'architects' who have added to my city by their wonderous BATs.

 

Anyway, here is the city at the north peninsula, after first developement on the south peninsula has been established.  The city's south peninsula, first to be inhabited, features poorly planned, zany roads which make it hard for developement to take place. Hence, larger development flocked to the north to build on that part of town's strict 6x12 block plan.

The sporatic South Peninsula.

Due to the friendlier planning of the North Peninsula, developement is occuring at an exponential rate.

Around this time the idea of the steel-framed skyscraper was just beginning to be explored, and the city's first steel-frame skyscraper can be found near downtown in this picture.  The skyscraper gave a revelation to the South Peninsula residents, who agreed to expand the 6x12 blocking on their side of the city to encourage businesses and skyscrapers to return to the original city. This, however, will not happen for a number of years. 

The city's first steel-framed skyscraper.

By the 29th year of it's existence, the demand for developement had continued to increase at phenomenal rates. (Coincedentally, this photo was taken October 29, 29.)

Here we have a view of one of the city's first expirements.  Nicknamed 'the isthmus,' this long block which spans the length of City Common, is designed to be a forest of ritzy residential tall buildings.  Due to the engineering constraints of the day, the city planned it out in advance in hopes that the idea of the skyscraper would be perfected in later years.

The red brick edifice to the right has been deemed the city's tallest and has also become the city's defining landmark.

Architects at the city's college (which specializes in the advancement of the tall building) has developed the glass curtain wall.  The architects, in conjunction with the city government design an extremely modern police and fire dispatch tower in the city's next expirement-a rowhouse district on the just previously uninhabitated Western Peninsula.  Proponents of the rowhouse district condemn the tower saying it could destroy the aura around the soon to be built quaint stone homes.

As of 1936 the city begins to put into motion the same structural elements which allow New York's Chrysler Building and Empire State Building  to create a new type of building-supertalls.  Although a city the size of Seneca could not yet support buildings of this stature, the city began to build up instead of out.  The first plan for a new skyscraper was designed by the city architects, walls of cascading glass, like a waterfall (and maybe even a cash register). A private firm out of Chicago designed a blunt, modern Art Deco styled tower behind it.

The completed towers.

The idea for a classically styled rowhouse district took off, but the city's recommendation for ONLY rowhouses did not.

 

Here I leave you. If you like this and would like me to continue, I would be glad to. I realize there are a few inconsistoncies with the designs of some buildings and the time period, but most of that will be weeded out in the future. I leave you with a teaser....

 

[Slowhand 0]

Oh, please do continue.

This is a good CJ. I like it! Hoping for more updates soon.

[Mrkeacher88 0]

Wow! I like it. That was some fast growth for 1 update. But no matter it still looks great. Yes please continue.

And converting png's is very easy, just open up your My Documents/Simcity 4/Albums folder and double click on the picture, press that save button and tell it to save as jpg. Then delete the png version.

[Mikeaut1 261]

Wow, what an awesome city. I love cities like these, spread out and uniformed. Great work!

[Cjah 15]

Nice.This city has got a good R$$$ population.I also like all the bats and the downtown area.

Great Start!

[sirgeoj2 1]

Good start!  The layout is looking good!   

[gurrgkud 2]

wow very good start to a cj! i love the road layout. cant wait to see more of this

[Traffic_Jam 0]

Nice work!

[Chrysler Guy2 0]

I'm glad that there's people interested!  This CJ will likely be short, due to the fact that I didn't take photos nearly then as I do now, so things will move quickly. I'll give another update later today, hopefully.