Generic American City (Vanilla SimCity 4)

[Snugies 91]

Development of a generic American city using San Francisco Region starting with settlement to about 1930. Then I will go through 50's freeway construction/ suburbanization to 2012 monorails. Tried to keep buildings with historical accuracy but vanilla SimCity 4.  

 

 

Pre Transcontinental Railway

 

 

 

 

Post Trans Continental Railway (Population Boom)

 

 

 

 

Approx: 1898 post electricity: rapid transit building

 

 

 

 

 

Approx: 1930

 

 

 

Workers housing approx: 1898 pre labour unrest: new elevated electric trains lead to dense housing in suburbs

 

 

 

 

Labour unrest in slums approx:1898

 

 

 

Expansion of police force to deal with labour unrest

 

 

 

East Bay City approx: 1930

 

 

 

 

Peninsula City Downtown approx. 1930

 

 

 

 

 

 

consolidation of wealth leads to growth of mass gated estates hidden in the hills.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Luxury tourist resort were 1930's luxury is flaunted

 

 

 

 

 

 

New bureaucratic federal government complex as 1930's leads to federal government expansion

 

 

 

 

Prohibition calls for new major federal prison

 

[89James89 1,169]

As a fellow vanilla player this looks awesome. Love how you shown the growth over the years and how the small towns have spread out.

 

Looking forward to more.

 

James

[Snugies 91]

Not quite vanilla I use lotplop and moolah. Without lotpplop I would not get skyscrapers. I played for years and struggled to get skyscrapers without lotplop. In fact some of those skyscrapers are the first times I've ever had them in a city.   

[nathanthemayor 1,261]

Lol I see modern buildings in a "1930s" picture; Looks good so far, particularly for a vanilla CJ; can't wait to see the pictures from 2013.....

[Dazzyls 576]

Lol I see modern buildings in a "1930s" picture; Looks good so far, particularly for a vanilla CJ; can't wait to see the pictures from 2013.....

Yes, there are some 70's buildings in the 30's pictures! LOL. It looks like a great city and bigger than my cities ever were!

I never had that two skyscrapers in front of the picture!

 

Also, you could use the shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + S and minimize your menu to make better pictures.

[simcity1999 34]

And also a mod that removes the yellow border when pausing. Anyway, nice vanilla city (I thought it was built on SC4 without RH).

[Snugies 91]

yep there are modern buildings my bad. I should have left it on 1890's Chicago tileset. And I don't have streetcars either my bad again. I will finish this city journal then get NAM. My CD's from simtropolis haven't arrived. I ordered them a week ago and I live in Canada I don't know whats taking them so long. I am in love with the pointy skyscrapers of the turn of the century back when the free market was free. But the 50's I going to empty out downtown I just jammed an elevated expressway down the coastline like the Gardiner in Toronto and Roosevelt in New York. Plus after MLK gets shot large parts of the city will burn then I will make housing projects, and suburbanize.  

[Snugies 91]

Now Riots followed by suburbanization freeway construction.

 

Freeway Construction almost Finished

 

 

 

 

 

Freeway Completions

 

 

 

 

Ghettoization

 

 

 

 

 

Pre Riot Public Housing

 

 

 

 

 

Pre Riot Projects Downtown Northside

 

 

 

 

 

Downtown Northside Rioting

 

 

 

 

Police Battle Downtown Northside

 

 

 

 

Downtown Northside Riot Damage

 

 

 

 

Southside Burnin

 

 

 

 

 

 

Post Riot Devastation

 

 

 

 

Post Riot Public Housing Downtown Southside

 

 

 

 

Post Riot Projects Downtown Northside

 

 

 

 

Industrial Outskirts

 

 

 

Suburban Coastal Port Facilities

 

 

 

Suburban Bay Ports

 

 

 

 

Hillside Suburbia

 

 

 

Suburban Cinema

 

 

 

Airport

 

 

 

Suburban Mall

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hilly Suburbia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Big Box Suburbia

 

[Dazzyls 576]

Still nice vanilla city.

[Snugies 91]

LoL thanks I didn't put any dates on it this time cause of you.

[shadowomega123 4]

these are very nice! youre better than me at simcity. xD

[Snugies 91]

Thank you very much. I've been playing SimCity a lot all my life I hope i'm good at it by now, but this is my first real experience with downloading from simtropolis. Its not very vanilla as I use cheats lot plot and moolah, and I downloaded that target and mcdonalds and convenience stores, certain musts for an American city. I can't get my dam walmart to work though ugh! My next CJ I'm gona try to cover North American history better though. Next post for this one will correspond with the 80's once I hit about 1 million people. Downtown will remain stagnant for now I will try to suburbanize my office demand first then add 80's style skyscrapers downtown. I feel personally I have no facts though that the 50's to 70's was a bit stagnant on skyscraper construction, just WTC. But a lot of skyscrapers in LA and Chicago, Houston, look 80's style. Plus just look at American city data on population in Wikipedia that tells you about downtown developments urban vs. suburban development in America over time. Were as Canada is a whole other issue with an equally diverse urban landscape.     

[Dazzyls 576]

LoL thanks I didn't put any dates on it this time cause of you.

Am I a problem? What am I doing wrong?

[Snugies 91]

remember you pointed out the 70's buildings in the 30's so I am not going to mention dates anymore. Next time I will try to maintain the Chicago 1890's set.

[Dazzyls 576]

That mall on the last picture, is that ingame? I never saw it.

[Snugies 91]

no that's a target I downloaded sorry not as vanilla anymore. But to tell you the truth there is many buildings I found with lotplop that I never saw appear in the vanilla game over years of gameplay. But compared to all the other CJ's I see this is very vanilla.