Show Us Your Suburbs

[Simworld 056132 1]

Wow, these are neat. I also like the houston and chicago style.

Just some tips,

 

When starting a suburb, make sure theres plenty of commerce around, this

can help it improve commutes, and make it look real life.

 

Make sure you put a highway nearby it. Highways often make the

 commute travel and help speed up to there far away jobs

 

adding pegs trees and a green grass lot is a great way to put on style.

 

I'll show some of myne l8er

[storms991 0]

To answer flanig407's quiestion. If you look closely to selles's pick, you will notice that there are bus stations fitted in with the houses

[norwoodman 0]

The Encounter Bay Metro Area's main sprawl belt is out west, sprawling around 25km from the main CBD.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid155/pc53a2e75f6274f36081db85dc235d565/f557a38f.jpg align=baseline>

 

The older suburbs closer to the CBD such as these are located on bland grids. Many of these are slowly being redeveloped into higher density.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid156/pa80319ff11c03bfb1b0aad8ebb4e5ce4/f542635f.jpg align=baseline>

 

One such area out west that has undergone this very process.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid156/p9904c176a63c1a159f30222f6783b904/f53dc6de.jpg align=baseline>

 

 

[soldyne 111]

well, I think it is about time I posted some of my suburbs here.  I would like to say that these pics are all in the same city and are my very first real attempt at making suburbs.  this bedroom community is about 33k residence and is connected to a larger city of nearly 300k.  It was difficult for me at first as I tend to gravitate toward the grid style so any comments would be most appreciated.  oh and I would like to thank PEG for making his seasonal tree lots...

 

these first pics are of my R$$ communities:

 

 

 

 

this next pic is a sample of my R$ communities (not much to see here just a bunch of low rent housing):

 

here is a sample of my R$$$ communities.  they are all walled communites with thier own hospitals, schools, fire and police departments.  no expense spared for my wealthy residence:

 

 

and here are some fall pics of some other R$$ communities:

 

 

 

hope you enjoy the pics.  let me know what you all think.  I just want to thank starrdarcy for starting this thread as it was my inspiration to make these communities in the first place. 

 

[pickled_pig 7]

soldyne, I love your suburbs.  The grid style can sometimes work very well if you alter it once in a while and don't stick to 4*6, 4*6... over and over.  But consider some diagonal roads if you're looking for an East Coast appearance. 

 

The first picture stands out to me; the large lot size end the sharp boundaries the trees make give it some realism I wish I had in my cities.  The third one with the cul-de-sacs is cool also.

 

While we're at it...  this pic = the intersection of US-80 and Robinson St. in the newly-built suburbs of Coventry.  The area's in a sort of greenbelt that extends all across the peninsula.

 

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[choco1 4]

Sorry, couldn't help myself! This is an extract from my CJ Green Depra, page 14 for those interested!

This is one of my personal favorite suburbs, its called Fur Hills.

Hope you like the mosaic!



Cheers everyone!

[soldyne 111]

thanks for the kind words pickled_pig.  I have thought about diagonals before.  I even used em in an earlier city once but I found I had trouble building on them so I stopped using them.  also, I can never really get a diagonal to look good in my cities, it could just be that I am too hard on my own designs though.  I will try to add some in and see what happens.

 

chocolatemax285 I love the mosaic!  I believe that you are using the dirt roads mod from the STEX to get the brick roads?  I used to use that mod but for some reason the roads always looked mottled to me, I never got a continuous set of brick.  so i just got rid of the mod.  how do you get your streets so continuous?

 

 

[topcliff 1]

these all look good, but i can think of one thing you need to make them more realistic: the STEX! it's there for a reason people! i mean, i personally HATE the Maxis homes, so i deleted(yes, DELETED) all of the in-game home files to be replaced with great suburban homes by SG. there's the Ashton, Highridge, and Modern Swiss homes that would make any city 5 times more realistic! that's just my 2 cents.

[DuskTrooper 314]

A view of some of my homes, which still need modding...

[topcliff 1]

that...is...soooo...BEAUTIFUL! you truly are the best BATTER here. i sit here now kissing my screen. btw, do you have any terrain mod installed? it sorta looks like the Maxis standard but, only you know so...

[justanothersim86 83]

DT, those are amazing. Shame that there not available yet.

 

 

I've been working on these, not yet finished (all the backyards are the same )

 

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4317/townhomes1b9sy.jpg align=baseline>

 

 

 

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7600/townhomes2b0by.jpg align=baseline>

 

 

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[numanboy 6]

I am so looking forward to those plopable Townhomes!  They are wicked pissa!

 

 

[coolotter88 2]

so thats what my cities are missing! suburbs! there was something wrong with my regions before where huge towers and smokestacks dominate, hmm, i should get to work on suburbs some time...anyway, great pictures. is it really hard to get all of those houses to look the same?

[____----____ 37]

wow wow wow nice suburbs

 

Alek

[davejowsey 1]

chocolate max: great suburbs, what is the 3x3 groups of small houses above the medical centre alongside the tram track. Look like little retirement cottages or something

 

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dusktrooper: houses are looking wicked, one ques though are they going to be R$$ or R$$$ as i think they look too big for R$$.

[BarbulaM1 38]

I think DT's houses should be R$$ and some R$$$, mainly because land is extreamly cheap in the burbs, and those types of houses are more common because of it (more money to spend on the house).

And all these suburbs are great. Good job everyone, keep them coming .

[cnystrom1 1]

I believe dt said they were R$$$, unless im mistaken

[Rive85 1]

wow...all of you have such nice suburbs.

[magpieshooter 1]

FROM MY CJ Kinata Region

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[rhino120 2]

Those are some great looking suburbs everyone

This will be the first time I've ever displayed anything I've built to anyone besides my son.  These are from my city Unkerlant...hope someone likes them.

 

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[soldyne 111]

Rhino120, your burbs are fantastic.  that is the kind of look I am trying to achieve in my cities, thanks for posting.

[rhino120 2]

Date: 12/15/2005 5:48:33 PM Author: soldyne Rhino120, your burbs are fantastic.  that is the kind of look I am trying to achieve in my cities, thanks for posting.

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Thanks, I'm glad you liked them!

[barnatom 0]

Wow! A very nice collection of suburbs we have here.

And Dusktrooper, please release those houses, they are brilliant!
And the same for you Justanothersim! We need more suburban homes, badly!


And to add something of my own:
Here are some images of a suburb of my city Laurence. The CJ is closed and this pictures were not shown there.
(Many thanks to Simgoober for his brilliant work!)




























If you want to see more of Laurence go here . But if you want to see my future work go to Cadott Bay !

[newy2 0]

nice burb pics, they're amazingly realistic When i get my burbs lookin good ill post some, hopefully

[soldyne 111]

barnatom I really like how you used various tree types in your small forested areas.  I always tend to fall back on PEGs seasonal trees (I'm addicted to them!).  I also like all the little dirt trails inbetween the houses.  very nice.

[Alexzero77 3]

The city of Neo Arcadia is simply into two sections, the downtown and the suburbs, that's why the population is only around 10k. Well here's its suburbs.

 

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[hamsterTK 93]

i really dont enjoy constantly pruning my residential areas to have a certain look. its too much work. Maybe someone will figure out a way to have ploppable residential buildings that function, then it will be easy to make realistic subdivisions and also the game will be more challenging as well since you have to decide how much of what things to build and not have the simulator do it for you.

BTW, this one looks almost real

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[Fairlane500 8]

Now for some pictures from my alternate history version of Anacortes, Washington in my San Juan Islands CJ. I tried to give them the look of 1960s/70s suburban development.

First, a lower-class development.

 

And a nearby middle-class development

 

Consider this a preview of my upcoming updates.

[Micah 16]

Wow, all of your surburbs look so realistic. except for the guy who has a huge hospital in the middle of a neighborhood...

[storms991 0]

Here's a pic from my region, Sterlingshire
a lot of UK lots