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[matias93 7,535]

5 minutes ago, EvansRE4 said:

So I have no idea what do with the area south of Broadway...the street known as Broadway is the red line...

any ideas?

Well, it depends on what infrastructure is on the area, and what that infrastructure serves. Generally speaking, industry follows railways, highways and ports, low income housing follows industry, high income housing escapes from low income housing and industry, and commerce follows the traffic of high income industry. 

[EvansRE4 796]

2 hours ago, matias93 said:

Well, it depends on what infrastructure is on the area, and what that infrastructure serves. Generally speaking, industry follows railways, highways and ports, low income housing follows industry, high income housing escapes from low income housing and industry, and commerce follows the traffic of high income industry. 

@matias93 the area is the CBD I'm just lost as to how to continue it southward

[matias93 7,535]

Well, if the only access will be from the already built part of the centre, I would expect a less dense development, with more residentials and less offices, maybe capitalising on the waterfront and the closeness to workplaces. For the same reason, maybe the middle blocks would be more depressed, with small business and less luxurious residences.

Also, those canals or rivers look navigable by ferry, so maybe you can compensate for the relative disconnection of the south side with a ferry terminal...

[EvansRE4 796]

4 minutes ago, matias93 said:

Well, if the only access will be from the already built part of the centre, I would expect a less dense development, with more residentials and less offices, maybe capitalising on the waterfront and the closeness to workplaces. For the same reason, maybe the middle blocks would be more depressed, with small business and less luxurious residences.

Also, those canals or rivers look navigable by ferry, so maybe you can compensate for the relative disconnection of the south side with a ferry terminal...

So you're saying like small apartment blocks? 

[matias93 7,535]

on the borders, big towers, condo type, getting unobstructed views to the waterfront, plus some hotels; on the centre, old W2W apartment blocks and similar commerce. And to play with the gradient between them both.

[EvansRE4 796]

8 minutes ago, matias93 said:

on the borders, big towers, condo type, getting unobstructed views to the waterfront, plus some hotels; on the centre, old W2W apartment blocks and similar commerce. And to play with the gradient between them both.

Do you have any links to buildings I can use? 

[matias93 7,535]

@Diego Del Llano has done some nice residential towers, both replicas from Puerto Vallarta and his own creations. Check them on his profile.

For the less glamourous buildings, I think it depends on the city style, but maybe some residentials by @Aaron Graham could be the right option, even if they are New York replicas...

Also, thinking mainly in San Francisco as a referent, you can add some townhouses to reflect non-remodelated areas of the city centre. As the style is generally shared all around the ports of the Pacific Ocean, the australian ones by @mattb325 will go nicely, but there are others out there on the STEX.

 

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

Lot I'm working on, Working name is "Sherwood's Forest Products"

(Any clue how to fix the textures?)

 

 

[kschmidt 6,199]

On 23/05/2017 at 1:43 AM, Mary Maurine Mayo said:

well decided to play the regular version of the game...

I call this city Frog City because the lake looks like a frog to me...

The circle drives did not come out like i wanted but they seem to work fine.

You used a one way road ? Roundabout with single road doesn´t connect either properly

Curve normaly occurs if you touch the center with the road tool; small roundabout has maximum four roads,for normal bigroundabout there might be a patch !

kschmidt

[Toby Ferrian 875]

brand new waterfront in a brand new city

[EvansRE4 796]

Almost finished with downtown Beacon Hills...

Once I finish downtown I'll work on the outlying areas.

[kim026 298]

Building the canal from the Aqueduct to inside the city walls... 

 

[Socold 120]

In celebration of cracking 1,000,000 population for the region I though I would post the middle of the area.

I am trying to build with a natural/semi realistic growth. 

Hopefully the 1,000,000 doesn't take as long. 

[kim026 298]

23 minutes ago, Socold said:

I am trying to build with a natural/semi realistic growth

Do you have a City Journal to show the growth? I'd like to see that

[Socold 120]

Na I Don't sorry, I would have like to of but time is a factor. Same reason I haven't got around to learning how to BAT.

[simmytu 605]

@EvansRE4; Your downtown looks packed and filled with all types of buildings,  looks stellar and I'm keen to see how you're going to fill the rest of the city!

Started experimenting with growable diagonal buildings to add variety. From the looks I need to place some parks and parking lots to fill the empty spots, but so far everything is going to plan.  

[kim026 298]

@simmytu looking gooooooood! nice touch with the FAR rail and the sunken road in the middle left. Or I think it looks like a sunken road. Im not sure.

[kschmidt 6,199]

On 27/05/2017 at 1:06 PM, kim026 said:

Building the canal from the Aqueduct to inside the city walls...

Nice use of the canal set, specialy the the transtion to the lower stream, well done !

 

On 27/05/2017 at 1:36 PM, Socold said:

In celebration of cracking 1,000,000 population for the region I though I would post the middle of the area.

I am trying to build with a natural/semi realistic growth. 

Hopefully the 1,000,000 doesn't take as long.

Love to see some more detailed views, well done !

 

On 27/05/2017 at 6:36 PM, simmytu said:

@EvansRE4; Your downtown looks packed and filled with all types of buildings,  looks stellar and I'm keen to see how you're going to fill the rest of the city!

Started experimenting with growable diagonal buildings to add variety. From the looks I need to place some parks and parking lots to fill the empty spots, but so far everything is going to plan.

Like aswell to experiment some more with modern non w2w european diagonal set, well done !

 

On 27/05/2017 at 11:52 AM, EvansRE4 said:

Almost finished with downtown Beacon Hills...

Once I finish downtown I'll work on the outlying areas.

Very nice city development ! Make better views use miniize button remover. This will hide the GUI bar completly. Restore with Numlock key to continue play !

 

Well done !

kschmidt

 

[Dreadnought 8,227]

WORK IN PROGRESS --

THE JADE BIGHT II

WILHELMSHAVEN WEST:

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Yo, guys --

Just a few pictures, today (worn out from plopping all those rocks!).

Over in the southwest quarter of the city, I decided I needed a High Tech Industrial Park.  Nothing really fancy, but enough to encourage the "McMansions" to grow in the desired neighborhoods and to boost the income level of the working class.  Everything is kind of scattered about rather than in the traditional row configuration -- plenty of green spaces and MMP work between lots -- and all the lots are trimmed out with various filler lots for realism.

 

In an effort to cut down on the possibility of clogging my roads with freight trucks, I decided on a nice little rail yard.  Made sure I made plenty of space to park switch engines, empty cars, and room for freighted cars waiting for an east bound engine.  Note the large sandy area south of the sidings.  Yet another effort to avoid plopping trees -- they become quite boring after a while.

Unfortunately, the freight depot is not functioning at full capacity -- but only stops about half the outbound freight!!  Sooooo -- I have a string of heavy freight trucks headed across the city and clogging Lakeshore Drive to get to a northern exit.  Go figure -- !

 

Just across the street I've got a small, improvised container freight yard to assist with distribution.  This is largely composed of modular lots from NBVC's container port kit along with several of my own filler lots.

 

On the east end of the zone is a small wetland wedged between a road and the tracks.  Due to the poor location, it has pretty much been left to it's own devices.

 

[korver 27,685]

A small teaser of what's to come:

 

The Pan-American Highway.. with a couple of South America's most famous animals.

 

Stunning fall colors in Tierra del Fuego.

 

Rio Pinturas Canyon, Argentina.

[APSMS 1,893]

On 5/22/2017 at 4:43 PM, Mary Maurine Mayo said:

The circle drives did not come out like i wanted but they seem to work fine.

Hi Mary,

The NAM avenue roundabouts are really only designed to be connected to with other avenues. For road connections (single-tile networks; OWR is also in this boat), you should use either the road roundabouts (max 4 connections, at each corner, drag the road out in a 2x2 square), or the OWR roundabout (drag in the correct direction--counter clockwise if your Sims drive on the right--in a 3x3 square with a hollow middle; max 5 connections, and with the OWR roundabout you can plop a road tile in the middle to autoplace a fountain if you don't have something else you'd like there).

As for the Avenue roundabout, I think the only place that single tile connections are supported are orthogonal connections made at the "corners" of the roundabout (where you might otherwise lead off a diagonal avenue connection). There are turbo roundabout puzzle pieces also available in the road menus, primarily for NWM networks (max 4 connections), but those are a little bit more specialized in application.

As a final option, the NAM supports a truncated transition, where you can lead off the roundabout with a one-tile avenue stub, and then drag a road into the end of it; a shortened version of the road-avenue transition will show up, preserving the roundabout's shape (no deconverting) and also eliminating the need for an avenue network where you otherwise wouldn't need one. Haljackey, IIRC, does this a lot with his roundabouts.

[mattb325 28,890]

Started working on this today:

 

[Dreadnought 8,227]

WORK IN PROGRESS --

THE JADE BIGHT II

WILHELMSHAVEN SOUTH:

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Yo, guys --

You remember a few days ago -- I asked you guys what you thought about my experiment with an MMP version of a rocky shoreline --? 

Well, here's the result --  I call it "The Three Sister's Rocks".

 

 

 

[Silur 3,308]

@Dreadnought - Good work! But only one - why were the trees on the embankment wall ?

[Dreadnought 8,227]

8 minutes ago, Silur said:

@Dreadnought - Good work! But only one - why were the trees on the embankment wall ?

Would those be the "vines" ?

[Silur 3,308]

@Dreadnought - Why not 

[MissVanleider 1,851]

Great work @simmytu @Dreadnought @korver @mattb325 @Jolteon @EvansRE4 (sorry if I missed anyone, I only had a quick look at the thread).

Today a big overview of my tile. It's starting to really fill up..

[_Michael 2,681]

@MissVanleider

That's looking great! I love the farms and small 'villages' and that town at the bottom looks very nice indeed!

I do think that diamond interchange over in the west could be shrunk a little - looks a little oversized, in my opinion.  

[MissVanleider 1,851]

@_Michael Thank you! It's on the list (It's an ever growing list, But that is on it :))

[Dreadnought 8,227]

@MissVanleider

I like your tile -- looks like there will be plenty of green spaces left over !!