Show Us Your Suburbs

[starrdarcy 4]

Show Us Your Suburbs!!
By Khalsa Starr

I felt like creating a thread for those who have sprawling suburbs in their regions. Please give us a link or pic of your city's suburban areas and share your idea on how you design them.

My burbs...
These two pictures are part of a region entirely dedicated to suburban living, notice that all roads lead to the main highway, this is a small city and already the numbers of the highways have exceeded 5000 - think what it would be like on a large city!

All the houses are middle class and cookie cuter - just like in real life! It seems as if sims can be coaxed into going the only way possible to work, heh heh.


The more quieter suburbs have their own treed back yeards and are away from the downtown grinder. Isn't this the way to live??


I got my ideas from a city i built myself, kind of a crude comparison, however this pic shows the similarities between this and my simcity suburbs.

More pics go HERE or HERE

-khalsa starr

[gggg 9]

Nice.

I like your Suburbs.

[blackthorn0_7 3]

how do you get them to have only 1 style of house?? BTW nice place!

[DuskTrooper 314]

Just a couple of pics, showing my suburbs, with some upcoming (if someone would modd them...) Houston style housing...





And here is a pic, showing all of the suburban sprawl in my region:

Click here, to see the oversized pic (warning- size is about 2 MB)

[jessyka who? 1]

Wow that is a very impressive subruban area you have there. I don't have anything to show right now, but I will be curious to see what others have. That sketch of the suburbs is just amazing! Did you draw that yourself? What for? You could very likely have a good career in that area.

Just a note, your pictures are too big, please limit them to 800x600 pixels. Also, no need for manually typing in html codes, just use the ones provided.

EDIT: Woah, DT! I hope you will find a modder VERY soon, because those are wonderful!

[Mikeaut1 261]

Nice suburbs everyone!

A picture of mine...

 

http://img229.echo.cx/img229/8431/robinsonjul271011136126365na.jpg align=baseline>

 

http://img229.echo.cx/img229/8500/robinsonaug21011136127077qq.jpg align=baseline>

 

http://img229.echo.cx/img229/5913/robinsonjul301011136126667yi.jpg align=baseline>

 

Pictures hosted offsite.

Pictures from Mikeaut1's Euphora City Journal.

[starrdarcy 4]

nice pictures everyone! I think i will show smaller pictures in the future, some of us don't have office internet!

[Mr. Beer 12]

HI all!  [:0]

great suburbs, particullary yours, Dusktrooper (your houses are marvelous, just a little bit big, but it's exactely what i'm searching for!)

 

I hope they will be released soon!

[Hordijk 18]

Date: 8/28/2005 2:59:39 AM Author: starrdarcy nice pictures everyone! I think i will show smaller pictures in the future, some of us don't have office internet!

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Exctually it's a rule that you don't post pic's wit a higher resolution then 800x600

[Tropod 144]

Date: 8/27/2005 6:49:48 AM
Author:starrdarcy



More pics go HERE or HERE

-khalsa starr

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I like these sorts of designs. Would anyone know where I could obtain some more maps (not RegionTerrainMaps), layouts, designs etc like this one depicted above? Those others on that site, for some reason not able to view them any bigger than thumbnail size, & my searching of here & the net hasn't resulted with much success. I've only managed to find but a handfew.

[Sam 163]

Tropod,

Try this site: https://web.archive.org/web/20061008234435/http://www.greenroofs.ca/nua/ip/ip02.htm

It has some useful diagrams and explanations of real world street layout.

There are a few more here too: https://web.archive.org/web/20051229055329/http://www.sactaqc.org/Resources/Literature/LandUse/urban_form_travel.htm

 

  Edited September 3, 2015 by Cyclone Boom  
Changed links to the Wayback Machine (the original sites are no longer online).

[starrdarcy 4]

that's odd you should be able to see the pics in full view! I think i may have to updtae the links.

[codyg1985 0]

Date: 8/28/2005 10:44:34 AM
Author: sam
 

Tropod,

Try this site: https://web.archive.org/web/20061008234435/http://www.greenroofs.ca/nua/ip/ip02.htm

It has some useful diagrams and explanations of real world street layout.

There are a few more here too: https://web.archive.org/web/20051229055329/http://www.sactaqc.org/Resources/Literature/LandUse/urban_form_travel.htm

Really useful information there sam. I may try to employ more of this in my sprawling cities.

 

  Edited September 3, 2015 by Cyclone Boom  
Fixed quote.

[meinhosen 11]

Nice suburbs everyone.  Here are a few of mine (all from the same town).

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/8042/greenwoodburbs14ry.jpg align=baseline>

 

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/5912/greenwoodburbs35en.jpg align=baseline>

[Tropod 144]

Date: 8/28/2005 10:44:34 AM
Author: sam
 

Tropod,

Try this site: https://web.archive.org/web/20061008234435/http://www.greenroofs.ca/nua/ip/ip02.htm

It has some useful diagrams and explanations of real world street layout.

There are a few more here too: https://web.archive.org/web/20051229055329/http://www.sactaqc.org/Resources/Literature/LandUse/urban_form_travel.htm

Some of the designs in those links I already use or similar. That info about the land usage stats is quite intriguing. Can't say I had ever bothered to sit down & look at it before, it's certainly very interesting. Thanks .

 

  Edited September 3, 2015 by Cyclone Boom  
Fixed quote.

[rustalot42684 0]

My grandfather was a city planner, and I still have a copy of his thesis.. It's really interesting

[atomius 0]

uh huh. well, that was... cool.

[Compromise 1]

Very nice designs, very realistic.

[starrdarcy 4]

Got some m ore pics... this is from the simantion game over at SCC. Anyways, some sprawl:





Here's just a overall picture.

[M-SIL 2]

@starrdarcy

That is awesome suburban city and by the way, really like the name of the city!!

[hammo 2]

starrdarcy: I love your first suburban picture! I love them so much that my suburbs (far from the citys) will be done in the same style. Any more suburb pics?

[Superstar 69]

Some really nice suburbs I've seen here, that sure does make me feel like playing SC4 again

[starrdarcy 4]

which type? The ones on paper or the simcity4 styles?

[rhino120 2]

Nicely done starrdarcy!  I particularly like the suburb that's been integrated into the golf course.  Thanks for sharing.

 

rhino

[starrdarcy 4]

another sprawl photo


starting a new city in my new region. about 90% of all the hosing developments are little 1x1's i had to do a lot of clicking.


also thinking about doing a cj i dunno...

[Stanislavs1 1]

Thes are the only suburbs I have

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//network2.JPG align=baseline>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//network3.JPG align=baseline>

Buildings designed and made by Vanderaap.

[r0g3r 1]

Date: 8/30/2005 5:25:33 PM
Author: starrdarcy

also thinking about doing a cj i dunno...

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Yes do a CJ! Your suburbs are fanstastic.

[sepsis 17]

Low wealth surburbs in Ilitj, capital of the Socialist State of Rodina:

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[Abc987 3]

Great suburbs everyone! I have a question: where do you get that modd that allows R$$ to gorw on a 1x1? Or is it not even a modd and an in-game thingy? I've been wondering that for a while...

[Stanislavs1 1]

  It's not a mod. If you plot low residental areas like that, they may appear with $$ 1x1.