Norwich

[andrew george 0]

Hi everyone, thanks for posting.

 

Subedei - thanks for visiting Norwich, I'm glad you like the city!

Utora - thanks to you too! It's great that you guys can appreciate what I'm trying to do.

Mattc005 - welcome back to ST! Earlier than expected, any reason? Hope you had a good break - oh, and, back by popular demand......... cul-de-sacs! Darn those unreliable bunnies.

 

 

Any more feedback, Simtropolians?

 

Thanks again guys.

 

A

[mattc005 2]

a) excessive moisture and uncontrolable natrual weather conditions brought around the early homecomming

b)cul-de-sacs! yay! .... I don't get it

c) bunnies are back, and here they are:         

[kbooms1w 1]

Great city, great pictures.

How many football stadiums do you have? I can see 3 in the region view. Is that the Southampton stadium north of the World Cup stadium? Just curious, would love to see some shots of those, with the surrounding areas included.

[andrew george 0]

Date:8/12/2004 7:29:23 PM
Author:kbooms1w

Great city, great pictures.

How many football stadiums do you have? I can see 3 in the region view. Is that the Southampton stadium north of the World Cup stadium? Just curious, would love to see some shots of those, with the surrounding areas included.

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Join me in celebrating Norwich's 4,000th hit!!!!

 

The stadiums are all given a little feature as they are built, so check back through the CJ and you will see them.

Yes, the stadium of Clarendon Athletic FC is St. Mary's Stadium, Southampton, UK, a stadium I have personally visited when Norwich City travelled there for an FA Cup match not so long ago - it's nice.

 

Thanks for visiting.

 

A

[nooneatall 6]

A little off topic, Mattc005, was it in Sudbury (Ontario)? As far as I know, we do not have a

[andrew george 0]

Date:8/13/2004 11:25:40 AM
Author:nooneatall

A little off topic, Mattc005, was it in Sudbury (Ontario)? As far as I know, we do not have a

[radenskloof 0]

Really nice region. I am enjoying following the progression of your city, quite insightful... and gives me plenty of ideas.

Where did you find the red double decker busses from? Did you have to make them yourself?

Keep it up.


(6 Gold Medals for the Aussies and counting!!! Yippee)

[radenskloof 0]

Mmm. Don't know where my post just went... so sorry if I double post.

I am really enjoying following your CJ, it looks great and is nice to see diagonal roads. It give me plenty of ideas.

Where did you find the red london busses?

Keep it up!

[andrew george 0]

Date:8/16/2004 11:49:57 PM
Author:radenskloof

Really nice region. I am enjoying following the progression of your city, quite insightful... and gives me plenty of ideas.

Where did you find the red double decker busses from? Did you have to make them yourself?

Keep it up.


(6 Gold Medals for the Aussies and counting!!! Yippee)

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Thank you for your kind words!

 

Re the double decker London buses - off hand I can't remember where those come from - when I get home I will have a search and let you know.

 

A

[mattc005 2]

Date:8/17/2004 9:58:18 AM
Author:andrew george

Date:8/16/2004 11:49:57 PM
Author:radenskloof

Really nice region. I am enjoying following the progression of your city, quite insightful... and gives me plenty of ideas.

Where did you find the red double decker busses from? Did you have to make them yourself?

Keep it up.


(6 Gold Medals for the Aussies and counting!!! Yippee)

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Thank you for your kind words!

 

Re the double decker London buses - off hand I can't remember where those come from - when I get home I will have a search and let you know.

 

A

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I can answer that (hope you don't mind) http://www.simcitycentral.net/files/index.php?category=9&page=3&sort=id

[Speedy 0]

Your region is growing big huh? It's quite good looking but these empty tree spaces in the city i would build on or lay down park areas. If you would like to have som forests, try having them around near lower buildings or mountains. I think that looks better. But I like your use of monorail. Sydney got a nice monorail i know.

 

Come Visit

The Region of Cape Pearl

[andrew george 0]

Ring Road Project - Phase 5 - Maidenwell

 

Good evening everybody and after much slackness (I prefer to call it being busy) on my part I have finally return with an update to Norwich. Maidenwell is on the eastern end of Central Norwich and you may have seen from previous update boasts the Waterfront Convention Centre, Trump Tower UK, the Docklands and Fleming Suspension Bridge. This is a traffic congestion map prior to the commencement of work........

 

 

As you can see, an awful congestion problem around the docks.

 

Now we move to the building of the ring road itself. Here, the A406 and NLR head into Maidenwell from Stathamstow. Also in view here is the trapezoid-shaped EMI Records Studios......

 

 

The A406 continues around Maidenwell and passes behind Sheppey Hill Services (on the A12) and between two industrial estates......

 

 

A406 continues behind residences and a new industrial estate with Space To Let.........

 

 

Now we move to our main interchange area that makes a busy triangle of road network. Junction 10a (top left of picture) gives motorists access to Blackwater Park + Ride facility and continues toward the river crossing......

 

 

Mayor George is highly honoured to showcase the first piece of work by transport chief Mattc005........

 

 

Highly impressive - looking forward to displaying more of those tonight and in future. Thanks Matt!!!!!!

 

In the bottom left corner of the previous picture the left arm of the A406 ends at junction 10b. 10b is a restricted access junction - as it only allows motorists to exit to the west-bound carraigeway of the A13, and likewise only motorists travelling east-bound on the A13 can access the North Circular here.....

 

 

 

Here, we reach the end of the North Circular at Junction 11. Although the road continues beyond this junction with the A13, it becomes the M130 until it reaches the start point for the (proposed) South Circular in Deptwich. The crossing of the River Hex itself is achieved by the construction of the Blackwater Tunnel (just out of this view)......

 

 

 

 

More great work from Matt. To avoid confusion - Hatchrow airport is currently is it's final constuction phase, but it is expected to shoot up and be open very soon......

 

Here we see the NLR crossing the river also. In view is Blackwater Wharf - ships loading as photo was taken....

 

 

CONRIP have also been at work in Maidenwell - they have designed the piers and amenities of Norwich Yacht Club......

 

 

Plush condos have shot up in the area, but the area is very young and is yet to settle down.......

 

 

Developments on either side of the A102 (M). In view to the top right is Drury Causeway - allowing waterborne access to the Docklands......

 

 

Housing! In view is the junction between A13 (east-west) and A102 (M).

 

 

The M130 reappears from the Blackwater Tunnel and passes by housing and commerce on the shore of the Blackwater Bend....

 

 

The M130 continues behind Greenwell Playing Fields.......

 

 

M130 and NLR exits to Deptwich, with a commuter train heading in the same direction...... 

 

 

Maidenwell, and in particular the Docklands, continue to enjoy success and high demand......

 

 

 

The newer, eastern end of Maidenwell at night.....

 

 

A solid budget......

 

 

Maidenwell (Norwich total):

Residents: 455,373 (2,921,282)

Commerce employment: 192,700 (1,523,290)

Industrial employment: 54,627 (337,959)

 

 

Project running costs:

 

Road construction -

[andrew george 0]

Regional views for you all.......

 

 

 

Population league.......

 

54 Berlin (Germany)                 3,274,500

55 Montreal (Canada)              3,248,000

56 Madrid (Spain)                     3,169,400

57 Ibadan (Nigeria)                  3,139,500

58 Surabaya (Indonesia)          3,038,800

59 Chicago (USA)                     2,939,700

     Norwich                              2,921,282

60 Harbin (China)                     2,904,900

61 Pyongyang (North Korea)    2,767,900

 

[mattc005 2]

It grew..... Substantially... And Maidenwell has so much in it that I've never seen before! And there's a lot of busses in that city too.....

 

A question: how come the water in your region view is different frmo that in your city? Or is that just a bug?

 

Bunnies for you:

     

    

[andrew george 0]

Welcome to my 500th post!!!!!

 

Speedy - thanks for visiting. I have many trees in my cities particularly close to highways because I don't think it looks too good to have buildings too close to highways - it's not very often seen in European cities. But there are areas that could be put to better use and that will all come in time as I get more ideas on development. Thanks for visiting Norwich!

 

Mattc005 - thanks again for the excellent highway signs!! The water - I don't know why it does that but you're right it looks weird. It's the waterflora mod I've got so I don't know if anyone else has this problem?  

 

 

Thanks again guys, here's to another 500!!!!

 

A

[utora 0]

Respect to you! What a region; my own pc would probably crash if I tried the same...

I especially like the Greenwell Playing Fields; it's a very esthetic shot I think, with the railway and monorail close to it, as well as the highway;

Btw those old fashioned double decker buses are very charming! Do they drive left? Btw, I was surfing the STEX, and I also saw a very English-looking public phone (also in red), I believe in the park menu (but i'm not sure)

I was also vey charmed about Maidenwell Docklands, how do you get the terrain so rectangular?

 

Anyway..... Keep up!!!

[andrew george 0]

Date:8/23/2004 6:43:55 AM
Author:utora

Respect to you! What a region; my own pc would probably crash if I tried the same...

I especially like the Greenwell Playing Fields; it's a very esthetic shot I think, with the railway and monorail close to it, as well as the highway;

Btw those old fashioned double decker buses are very charming! Do they drive left? Btw, I was surfing the STEX, and I also saw a very English-looking public phone (also in red), I believe in the park menu (but i'm not sure)

I was also vey charmed about Maidenwell Docklands, how do you get the terrain so rectangular?

 

Anyway..... Keep up!!!

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Yes, the buses drive left along with the rest of the traffic - mattc005 posted a link to the file above^^^^^^ if you're interested in getting them. The Docklands - well it took some painstaking and careful with the terrain tool (not god-mode) to do it - I quite like the effect.

Thanks for visiting - I am a big fan of New Holland also!

 

A

[+Guest]

My god, that region looks beautiful for all that work.

[Dark Avatar 8]

Another great update - as usual. Keep it up!

[ChicAgo333 2]

great job on the regional! looks great!

[nooneatall 6]

Hmm... nice update... I agree about that water flora mod, just get the dark water mod by joerg instead.
Those roadway signs look fairly nice, just to let you know.... But you do need to have some type of highway transportation heading into Central Norwich, maybe some type of underground expressway, like Montr

[iguana_labrat 0]

Date: 8/22/2004 6:06:31 PM
Author: andrew george

54 Berlin (Germany) 3,274,500

55 Montreal (Canada) 3,248,000

56 Madrid (Spain) 3,169,400

57 Ibadan (Nigeria) 3,139,500

58 Surabaya (Indonesia) 3,038,800

59 Chicago (USA) 2,939,700

Norwich 2,921,282

60 Harbin (China) 2,904,900

61 Pyongyang (North Korea) 2,767,900

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Nice comparing your city population with that of real cities. Good update BTW. Keep it up.

The Labrat!

[ElectroClash 0]

Wow that is a biggie. Size of of chicago eh? Not bad..what is your goal?
Can you please tell me how you got your highways to fully intersect on a 45 degree angle? Is that a dowload of somekind because i was messing with my highways and couldnt get it to do that. Thanks.

[mattc005 2]

ElectroClash: You can get it when you download the Network Adon Mod

[andrew george 0]

Thanks for all the comments once again everyone!

 

tHe Dark_Child - thank you once again - it has been a lot of hard work and a bit of a tough slog at times - but I enjoy it all the more if you guys do.

 

Dark Avatar & ChicAgo333 - thanks once again for your kind words.

 

nooneatall - I may consider changing the mod - it's a bit weird looking isn't it? Underground expressway? Now thast would be a tough challenge for anyone - even the greatest city planners and engineers! Thanks for commenting!

 

iguana_labrat - That's an interesting choice of name.......... I hoped to be climbing these rankings a bit quicker - don't know if I'll make number one - it's Bombay with a population of 12,383,100!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the visit!

 

ElectroClash - It's going to get bigger. Mattc005 is right - it's the Network Addon Mod in the Mods exchange. I like that quote also, fully agree.......

 

Mattc005 - thanks for your help again!!!!!

 

Thanks once again to all.

 

A

[meng881124 2]

see if you can get it to same population as shanghai (13million)

[andrew george 0]

 

Date:8/23/2004 6:11:20 PM
Author:meng881124

see if you can get it to same population as shanghai (13million)

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meng881124 - hi there, nice to see some new names visiting Norwich. Well, according to my source - www.world-gazetteer.com - Shanghai is only in 9th place in the world with a (mere) 9,005,600. I think it very much depends on where the boundaries are drawn with relation to census information. For instance, Norwich, UK, has a population within the city area of approx. 125,000. However, world-gazetteer has obviously also used the surrounding towns and villages and calculated 172,300. That's a variance of around 38%. So it's not totally accurate. But thanks for visiting and one day maybe I will top 13 million...........

 

A

[d211q2 0]

Yeah, city's populations are often a bit to work out.

For example, the official population of Newcastle is 250,000, yet the whole Tyne and Wear conurbation is well in excess of a million, so it often depends how you define a city as to its population. FOr example, there is no way Chicago's effective urban footprint covers just 3 million people, in the Greater Chicago area at least 8 million live.

As to the largest city in the world, its almost impossible to define, and it seems to rotate daily between Tokyo/Yokohama, Mexico City, and more recently, Chongquing in China (Where??!!)

[kbooms1w 1]

Date: 8/13/2004 6:08:01 AM
Author: andrew george

Date:8/12/2004 7:29:23 PM

Author:kbooms1w


Great city, great pictures.


How many football stadiums do you have? I can see 3 in the region view. Is that the Southampton stadium north of the World Cup stadium? Just curious, would love to see some shots of those, with the surrounding areas included.

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Join me in celebrating Norwich's 4,000th 'hit'!!!!

The stadiums are all given a little feature as they are built, so check back through the CJ and you will see them.

Yes, the stadium of Clarendon Athletic FC is St. Mary's Stadium, Southampton, UK, a stadium I have personally visited when Norwich City travelled there for an FA Cup match not so long ago - it's nice.

Thanks for visiting.

A

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Oops, my bad, don't know how I missed those shots.

Unlucky against Man.U yesterday, Smith's shot goes in, Bentley's just misses (I'm watching the highlights as I type).

Keep up the great work.

[iguana_labrat 0]

so when should we expect an update to this fabulous journal?

The Labrat!