NewAmsterdam

[Fragothic 0]

Hello, I've read many city journals, and I thought it should be time for my own city journal. So I 'proudly present'New Amsterdam to you. It's still a small city, but it should grow into a metropolis...


Here you can see the historic city core with the loop canal 'singel'


Here another part of the town

Show your view and give comments please!

If people like the city i'll post more pictures

[____----____ 37]

looks confusing European and quite nice you

have a good concept of matching building styles

 

ALek

 

ps nice start

[Fragothic 0]

Here are some other town pictures:


The new town at the other side of the 'Singel'


A part of the city's market square


Another picture

I hpoe you like it!

[sloppet 3]

how many time I have to say : Please change the picture format from .png to .jpeg ? ?

is is so difficult??

[Foamy 0]

@ sloppet: you know that png has a better quality then jpg right? It is heavily underestimated


@ Topic: lookin'nice

[sloppet 3]

Foamy: Really?? Oh wow! you're right.. hmm but wait...
<sloppet thinks...> ...<sloppet thinks once again>

829 KB  !!! It's almost 1 MB... and multiply this by for example 20 pictures on a page and you'll gat almost 20 MB...

[bazzuka 0]

Wow, this is very nice!!It looks very realistic and beatiful!!!!!Waiting for more updates.

My Rating:1-2-3-4-5:

                            ^

 

[Foamy 0]

yeah ok, but the pcitures look better, the size is the only downside

[MayorTim 16]

Foamy: Picture limits on this board are 800x600. He is at the maximum size.

Anyway, looks good, but it would look a lot better if you replaced the PEG streams with cannals.

[Fragothic 0]

Here are some new pictures of New Amsterdam (In JPEG format!)


Here an overview of the old town. As you can see, there are a lot of churches, but these days they aren't used as much as when they were brand new, because around 1500 around 100 people lived in one single building.






Here other pictures of the old town.


A neighbourhood at the river. Long times ago it was a slum for sailors, prosititution was the main business of the district and alcohol abuse was common. Now it's a popular and trendy place in the city with shops and pubs. Many students live here




After a bloody war the economy of the city boomed and complete new districts were added to the city. Rich people owned the buildings. Many rich people left their castle/vila and bought a house in New Amsterdam.



A huge fire in the city left a big gap near the waterfront. Project developers wanted some more Manhattan in New Amsterdam, but the buildings they built were ridiculously ugly and now the shops have moved away their business out of the buildings and they're on sale. It's not a nice place at night, because junkies and youth rule the park.

Please let the comments come!

[Compromise 1]

Nice start, yes I would recommend you have your pictures as JPEG otherwise some peaple can't see them

Sloppet: Possing as a moderator is not clever or funny.

[Fragothic 0]

Here a new 'episode'




The central station of New Amsterdam. Transport in NA is badly organised. There is almost no public transport in the ciy, city routes are very small, because when the city was built, no one ever thought about cars. Heritage laws forbid old buildings to be destroyed, so nobody has a solution for the traffic problems.


The city's richest district. The captains of Industry of the whole country live here.


Seaside district.




This is the state square: The government settles here. Also some parts of the city government have their buildings at the square. Also the city theatre is here.


An overview of the 18th century new town.










New Amsterdam isn't really a 24-hour-active-city, but the pubs, stages and theatres are well loaded in the evening.

[Fragothic 0]

Here 2 city overview pictures





Give your comments!

[bux 0]

Hello,

Looks very nice. Is it supposed to be a replica of real Amsterdam? I dont recognize anything...

Carry on anyway, that's pretty cool

Nico

[Fragothic 0]

@ Bux: No, it isn't a copy of Amsterdam at all








The old city is located on an island. The new districts are on the main land. The most people live here. The most important area is the new business area, a modern district with skyscrapers and monorail.


Here is the city's second central station. To tackle congestion, the old station has been reconstructed and more trains leave the station now. More and more commuters find their way to the station. During the reconstruction 2 hotel skyscrapers were built to accomodate the increasing amount of tourists in New Amsterdam.

[sloppet 3]

Nice work! The pictures are much better now!

Compromise: I didn't want to act like a moderator. It's isn't funny and clever... sorry for that

[Fabiocb 1]

quite nice work so far man, I like it, and where did you get these rotatory?

http://img449.imageshack.us/img449/5782/newamsterdam8feb8711291171706n.jpg align=baseline>

 

 

[Nik-nik 3]

Fragothic, very nice!

I wasn't expecting too much but this CJ is nice. Great use of the combination of the various 2x1 medium density lots. It gives the cj it's own character.

Watch out for those No-car zots. I saw 2 of them.

Why did you use PEG's ponds and not Oppies canals (which has a great Amsterdam style drawing bridge) or Simgoobers Canals?

I would also recommend the use of Swamper77's No Palms MOD: https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=10961

Palms are a rare thing in European cities (if that is your intention)

As Aleking described it; It looks confusing European. I guess that's what European cities are like so you managed to grasp that atmosphere My complements!

Also the use of Singels is very nicely done. You see them a lot in the Netherlands.

 

Nik-Nik

 

EDIT: Fabiocb. Check out NAM: https://www.simtropolis.com/modding/index.cfm?mode=details&show=380

Make a 3x3 one-way road and you have it. Place a single road piece in the middle to get the fountain/ statue or you can place a 1x1 piece of your own in there.

Great stuff NAM!!!

[Fragothic 0]

@Everybody who says I have to use canals: Many city's in Holland have circular 'singels'. To give an example, in my home town, Haarlem those singels, formerly used to defend the city, have been transformed into parks, and the Haarlem singels actually don't look like the canals made by oppie etc. I used Oppie's canals in other city's, but I like PEG ponds more.






The streets are becoming more crowded, because of the many tourists and because the city gets bigger and bigger, now the authority counts more than 250.000 people, of which around 60.000 live in the old centre.


Here is the city's Catholic cathedral. Almost all of the churches in the city were built by Catholics, but in 1566 the 'beeldenstorm', the protestant rage against the Catholics didn't skip the Catholic churches. They became prosestant. The Catholic church was forbidden, but around 1700 the Catholics were allowed again to build churches, and they built a big cathedral here.


One of the few wide roads in the old town.


Some buildings at the singel


The business district is still growing...












Some overview pictures

The next time we will visit the villages around the big city, and as always:

[choco1 4]

Great looking suberbs, very realistic and detailed, looks like an actual european town. Nice Work!

[Compromise 1]

Still coming on niceley. Good work!

Sloppet: Thats ok, you just gave that inpression.

[Fragothic 0]

Now we're going to visit the villages around NewAmsterdam. We start with Zeedam, a coastal village with a big harbour. During the summer holiday, the village is crowded by citizens from NewAmsterdam, who like the beach and the nightlife.


Here is an overview of the city's waterways, harbours, marina and buoys.
The ship traffic is quite dense, due to the marina and the big seaport. Also some fishermen live in the village.








The seaport during day and nighttime.


A big and cheap hotel to facilitate the mass tourism


Here arer the clubs, bars and disco's of Zeedam. Overcrowded during summer holidays, empty and boring at the rest of the season


The lighthouse. Now not really needed anymore, because the most ships have navigation systems on board.


The seafront


The village centre




The dunes, preventing the country from being flooded

[jacqulina 162]

beautifull work and what a great start to your cj,i love what you have done,your pics are fantastic i especially like the night pics,i look forward to more

[Micah 16]

It is very European. I like it very much.

[Compromise 1]

Excellent things about this update which should be kept up: The deatil and realism.
 
Passable things about this update which could be improved: N/A
 
Bad things about this update which should be improved: N/A
 
Overall Rating: A B C D E F

                         ^ B+ Good so far.

Simtropolis Production Evaluation System (SPES) by Compromise.

[Fabiocb 1]

another quite nice update, some really cool stuff.

 

[Fragothic 0]

Today we're going to the countryside, not many people live here, and it's a horrible area. Why? Because nothing happens over here: no parties, no cinema's, no progression and the average age is 55, and anybody who could organise something moves away to the major cities.






Here is a small village at the river. The city is protected from the river by a big dike, however, about once in a century the dike breaks and the city gets flooded.


Here another picture of the dike. Maintenance is well done, but nobody knows why. Nobody would miss the people living behind it, because they're the most boring people living on this planet.






Another place along the river. It's very important, since it has his own train station and even a pub!

[Fragothic 0]

In contrary to NewAmsterdam, Rotjeknor doesn't look too nice. It's a poor industry city. Almost no rich people live there, however, the city is a nice place to live: people are very friendly and they like party's.




A little shopping mall in a residental area. Don't expect nice shops: there are only low-budget clothing stores and supermarkets












And the development is still going on...




As you can see, the city centre doesn't look nice, the only place of interest is the huge club 'The volcano'. Every weekend thousands of people visit the famous party's.


Here the people do their job...

Just let the comments come!

[Micah 16]

I love every aspect of this city. New Amsterdam is still going great!

[Fragothic 0]

Since RLS eats more time than I eat hamburgers, the amount of updates has been decreased somewhat, but here are some pics of Weteringdam, a big old city. The city is still under construction, so I don't have much pictures: