Show Us Your Suburbs

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,195]

 

Kinross consists of many suburbs that are outside the main urban area of the city. Most of these new suburbs have taken away farmland from the area.

[popo123456 96]

[TakemeThere 5,833]

The neighbourhoods of my suburban areas have been undergoing a form of urban renewal incorporate curvy roads in their designs;

Kewston

Rockcut

Mayfield

Lexenborg

Evermore

And my two favorites, Lincoln & Orchard Heights



 

 

 

[Lucario Boricua 7,028]

I really like the use of all transportation networks in curvy paths!  It gives the suburbs a much more natural feel.

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,195]

That looks nice takemethere.

I didn't realize you could connect a street to a neighboring city tile.

[GMT 389]

How do you do the street neighbor connection?

Maybe I'm blind, but I couldn't find it

[TakemeThere 5,833]

I really like the use of all transportation networks in curvy paths!  It gives the suburbs a much more natural feel.

That looks nice takemethere.

I didn't realize you could connect a street to a neighboring city tile.

Thanks! And yeah I didn't know it was possible either for the longest time until I stumbled upon a thread about it last year. There's a multi-step procedure to enable it and other unique connections like diagonal avenue & highway connections.

Here's the thread; https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=7350.0
Unfortunately it seems the images are no longer visible, which made it a lot easy to do.

The only exception is that it doesn't work for diagonal RHW. Though there are other work arounds for that too

[GMT 389]

 

Thanks for the link man, appreciated!

And far easier than it looks at first glance. perf.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

So... I made this.

 

[TakemeThere 5,833]

Further refining the once ignored suburbs. The latest phase in my suburban renewal movement involves streetscape beautification and more diversity in design;

[Compdude787 916]

Nice suburbs! One thing you need, though, is the Light Replacement Mod by MandelSoft. (He made several versions of them for each region of the world.) The Maxis lights look ugly IMO; the LRM ones are in HD and look 1000x better.

[TakemeThere 5,833]

@Compdude787 Thanks for the suggestion, I actually downloaded that mod a short while ago but I never got around to installing it. I guess it's one of those things that isn't instantly obvious, but it's high time to put vanilla maxis anything to rest.

[philforhockey51 4,211]

takemethere ... really brilliant work ... and as you may, I hate the Palm tree prop I try what I can to get to get rid of them

here is a suburban stop that I just grew, some pruning required.

[Compdude787 916]

I like the retaining walls next to the avenue!

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

I second Compdude787's comment. Also I see you sneaked in some MMPs to cover the gap between the elevated railway support and the retaining walls.

[philforhockey51 4,211]

Thanks for the compliments Gents, yeah Ln X  I think I have a love affair with MMPs, I love to use them to cover gaps, though I wish at the time of the building of the transit network I used a different MMP, but if you agree I think I can get away with it this time?

[VMIUJcadet09 250]

Here is a high-wealth development in my suburb of Pleasantburg, part of my Southern Cities CJ. Complete with a private school (top left), tennis court, and a riding school (far right).

 

 

 

[TakemeThere 5,833]

Middleton Rd. should get a name change... Suburb Rd. would be far more suitable.

[Abrams 1,744]

Here's a suburb of mine:

[Compdude787 916]

Looks pretty nice!!!

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,195]

Suburbs in Brimley.

Suburbs in Quigley.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Carver Estates, in the southwest corner of Greenvale, which is Alexandria's nearest suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Ronson. Only Ford Hill and a bunch of warehouses lie between this place and Alexandria's CBD.

 

[TrickyMario76543 67]

The town of Swiftni. Pop. >17,000

It's simple, but effective. Also has jobs in it too. Neighours Greensfield & Heathville.

[TakemeThere 5,833]

The latest reiteration of my regions suburbs.
Switched to an HD terrain mod, updated street light mod, added a custom multi-wealth sidewalk texture(s) and a custom tree controller.

 

[Compdude787 916]

20 hours ago, takemethere said:

Switched to an HD terrain mod

How were you able to download Gobias' Sudden Valley terrain mod? I thought he took it down like six months ago.

[TakemeThere 5,833]

2 hours ago, Compdude787 said:

How were you able to download Gobias' Sudden Valley terrain mod? I thought he took it down like six months ago.

I was lucky enough to download it and the Berner Oberland a couple weeks before he took them down. I played with them a little but it didn't immediately appeal to me since at that time I was mostly working on heavy urban development. Thankfully I kept it in what I call the K4L folder(Keep For Later). It's where I keep unused downloads that I think might be useful later on. But yeah, one can only hope it's just some kind of hiatus and if when he comes back he'll re upload them.

[MisterBlueStar4 1,004]

The suburbs of Hawkinville

[Artimus 485]

Nice nighttime shots  @Pottermeis4. In addition, if you want to take better, unhindered shots then I suggest these quality of life mods for that reason:

Good luck! 

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

Not Your Typical Suburb

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

I'm gonna need a tree controller for this. I'll post back when it's greener.