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[wouanagaine 83]

Here is mine

regional view

and some transitions

[luker91 0]

now that is S P R A W L awesome work

[wouanagaine 83]

Great pictures ! Did you plop or let the game grow them ( especially in the 2 last pics. Everything seems so well placed )

[seemurray2 21]

wouanagaine - Thank you!  If possible, I let the buildings grow on their own and when something I like grows, I make it historical.  I try to only plop if the building is only ploppable or if it is taking to long to grow what I want!

[seemurray2 21]

Here is some from Aquaville...

There are actually alot of BATs available on the STEX to use to make some really nice suburban sprawl!

[Micah 16]

seemurray, that is so realistic. Reminds me of an area called the Galeria down in southern Houston. Truly awesome!

[shivsood 5]

dusktrooper that city of urs looks like a real life city in size and in.......well realism lol

[SpecialEddie 3]

That's some amazing sprawl...I'm new at Simtrop, and i'm not even NEAR that kind of quality (but I've been downloading a lot lately).

[hamsterTK 93]

geez, dt, you must spend lots of time playing the game. that is freakin huge!!!

[p1 1]

Love Urban Sprawl! My regions grow and then most of the region is covered with urban and suburban sprawl.

  

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[SaltandVinegar 1]

Nevermind the name of the region, this is my city, Arid.

[waway625 72]

mine

CBD

urban area

entire metro area

larger  view of the metro area (56k warning)

https://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g261/waway625/sprawl.jpg

[deathtosquishy 0]

How do you get that zoomed out view of the region? thats so cool i wanna be able to see my regions that way

[dadyrghluv 8]

u need the region census. i have forgotten where it's located, but i'll see if i can dig it up for u.

[Mikeaut1 261]

What an amazing picture!! That looks so realistic from the air! Excellent work with that.

Here's a quick one of mine... it's an actual picture from an update to my cj but you can see the current sprawl of my region. 

[UnkleS27 24]

There is some great sprawl going on here!

Here are a couple examples of mine

[Geronimo 4]

Sweet! Nice suburbs and that small town business district looks great!

[Smarty218 2]

Beautiful job, but where is everyone getting those lush pine tree?

[KingTitan 6]

some really incredible sprawls there everybody......

waway625 your region looks AWESOME

MIKE.....You should do travel brochures. LOL Great photoshopping friend...

UnkleS27, yours looks like something from GoogleEarth......very sweet.

Everyone has some really nice presentations.

[Mikeaut1 261]

UnkleS27!!!!!!!

When the page finally loaded, it stopped right on your first picture. When I finally maximized to view the loaded page and layed my eyes on your picture, my jaw hit the floor! Awesome work and how did you get it like at that angle?!

Great work everyone!

[Palpatine001 57]

Ok this is a regional shot but closed ups can be seen in my CJ

Solaria and she is still consuming ever more and more land as it grows outwards away from the core into suburbia.

[Smarty218 2]

Great job, but not as much population as I would have thought for all those skyscrapers.

[Somebody 12]

i find that making sprawl is boring and time-consuming.. but i do it anyway and i like the end result. Sprawl-it's just too alike for my taste

[Palpatine001 57]

Sprawl to me is very challenging and very rewarding when it works right, and believe me that is hard when 2 of your cities are 70 years old and the others not that old at all. Done right it can be considered an art or science depending on one's view point.

2.7 million might not seem alot but it is still a fair whack when your largest cities are 900k, 655k, 550k and 450k and still growing.

Anycase I am about to go westwards and open up another large city tile and most likely get 500,000 more there.

[UnkleS27 24]

I get through my sprawl by trying to give each area its own unique personality and little history. Like, this one neighborhood is a quite bedroom community with good schools happy middle class sims, while another one might be the center of a small suburban town, complete with a main street and civic buildings, while another might be a major shopping areas full of strip malls. I don't I think its interesting trying to recreate real life urban sprawl. Not that theres anything wrong with building a skyscraper forest every now and again!

[mayorbk 66]

Here's a satellite photo I created for my city the other day. You can see the city's dense core and the urban and suburban sprawl extending out. Also major highways and bridges can be seen.

[The Almighty Cheese Grater 0]

i hate doing sprawl, i've tried it once, and got bored in 30 minutes i don't know how you guys do it, everyone's sprawl looks so realistic and great nice work!

[juanico 0]

WOW, that last picture looks so realistic!

[SimHoTToDDy 2,938]

Because I think it IS real life picture. The Microsoft Virtual Earth label kinda makes that a little more obvious too. Looks great regardless.

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

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