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[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

Located just south of Sault Ste. Marie, Rudyard was a big manufacturing city until the 1980's downtown of the manufacturing industry. The city managed to stay afloat thanks to expanding it's tech sector but the main industrial area suffered and vacant lots are found through that area. The downtown hasn't seen much growth since the 80's except for one office building and the cities tallest condominium.

An overview of the city of Rudyard. It takes up four medium sized city tiles and has a population of 194,950.
Southeast Rudyard

Northeast Rudyard with the west side of the city of Pickford at the bottom of the hill.

Southwest Rudyard

Northwest Rudyard

[TakemeThere 5,834]

Nice. Here's an overview of my favorite medium sized city, L.C.;




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[_Michael 2,681]

That interchange is just a monster @takemethere! Keep up the epic work!

[TakemeThere 5,834]

On 2015-12-27 at 11:48 AM, michae95l said:

That interchange is just a monster @takemethere! Keep up the epic work!

Thanks mate! And yeah sometimes when I look at that thing I think of how disproportionate it seems compared to the local scenery. 

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

An overview of south Sault Ste. Marie.

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

Overviews of southwest Sault Ste. Marie.

[Sabretooth78 808]

On 12/28/2015 at 5:01 AM, takemethere said:

Thanks mate! And yeah sometimes when I look at that thing I think of how disproportionate it seems compared to the local scenery. 

It certainly is, but try this for an exercise:

1. Go into Google Maps and find your favorite 70s-era cloverleaf (that is, if it's possible to have a favorite one)
2. Zoom in until it fills up at least one dimension of the window
3. Scroll over to the nearest city (basically maintain zoom)

Chances are that cloverleaf, if placed in the downtown core, would wipe out a significant chunk of it, especially that of a US city with population 200k or less.

[11241036 5,108]

This is a city tile of mine, actually containing several villages in a rural area. Click to enlarge (warning: large picture). Hope you like it.

[Odainsaker 2,136]

22 hours ago, Sabretooth78 said:

It certainly is, but try this for an exercise:

1. Go into Google Maps and find your favorite 70s-era cloverleaf (that is, if it's possible to have a favorite one)
2. Zoom in until it fills up at least one dimension of the window
3. Scroll over to the nearest city (basically maintain zoom)

Chances are that cloverleaf, if placed in the downtown core, would wipe out a significant chunk of it, especially that of a US city with population 200k or less.

Architect and planner Andrés Duany often pointed out in his touring lectures that the land area associated with a classic cloverleaf highway interchange, roughly 120 acres, is equivalent to the land area of Renaissance Florence, with the implication that we have prioritized our resources towards saving suburbanites 10 seconds on their commutes through the cloverleaf over the potential creation of a great city of high culture.  The argument can be made that for the trillions of dollars we are pouring into hundreds of such interchanges, why are we not instead getting hundreds of cities of Florence?

Here is Renaissance Florence within its walls to scale with the I-75/I-285 interchange and its strips in Atlanta:

(By Steve Mouzon on the Original Green Blog, "The Speed Burden [The Costs of Sprawl Series]")

For the curious, here is Duany's seminar in San Antonio making the early case for New Urbanism, or, as he liked to call it, "Traditional Urbanism."  As this popular lecture was from 1991, we can see 25 years later how little progress has since been made, and in hindsight pick up unsustainability hints of the housing and mortgage crisis of the Great Recession.  I admit, I still try to use concepts presented here in my SimCities, even if SimCity still has no mixed-use function.  This mind-blowing manifesto presentation was one of the great gems I spotted on public access television, and I was fortunate to participate in Duany's identical lecture in Austin some years later.  While New Urbanism later introduced its own issues with that were revealed with implementation, I encourage any aspiring urban planner and SimCity player to watch the old video, which is one of the paradigm moments for the field.

 

[TakemeThere 5,834]

Cisco Bay from above;




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[Compdude787 916]

That looks awesome! But I didn't realize that that was a medium city tile. I mean, you made it seem much larger in your CJ.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Wow, infrastructure sure dominates this tile!

[TakemeThere 5,834]

22 hours ago, Compdude787 said:

That looks awesome! But I didn't realize that that was a medium city tile. I mean, you made it seem much larger in your CJ.

You might be mixing it up with the city I'm currently working on/showing, which is on a large tile. CB was a city I covered a while ago but never posted on here. Also recently made some changes to it, specifically a terrain mod and some minor improvements with NAM 34.
 

19 hours ago, T Wrecks said:

Wow, infrastructure sure dominates this tile!

Definitely, it's basically a vital link between two separate sections of my region so there's a lot of networks that run through it. I added the city map(s) to the posts above to more clearly convey all those networks.

[Artimus 485]

The town of Benton, with a humble 8,010 sims living currently with a small commercial district and an industrial center to boot. A major highway also runs here, connecting this town to the rest of the region as well. 

[T Wrecks 10,210]

@Artimus: Wonderful picture! I love the smooth bridge ramps, the highway routing and those tunnel portals. The only thing that doesn't convince me entirely is the sudden 90-degree turn on that avenue, but that's about it. Great work!

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

An overview of east Quigley.

[SimEMS38 246]

Here is Lancaster City as it stands in 1935. I'm mostly finished with the dense residental rowhomes and mid rise units, may still add a few more commercial high rises, I like where it's at right now but this town is ever changing so who knows what will be added! All the AG in this shot will eventually be replaced by the suburban sprawl that will follow the end of WWII.

[raynev1 1,886]

Nice overviews guys , @SimEMS38 that image is great with that diagonal section . 

[КaZZ 203]

well I was need to quite many maps to fit my city..

technically it is group of towns but I build it as one whole settlement

[philforhockey51 4,216]

Here is the overview of a river valley with a few different crossings, highway, rail and road. and yes they go into tunnels and back out, this was a fun hard build. 

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

The town of Denton with a population of 10,960.

Just on the other side of the Chippewa Forest from Denton is the town of Glenwood and the Minneapolis Woods ski hill. Glenwood has a population of 7,430.

Sorry I left the menu open. Didn't realize that until just now.

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

An overview of the west end of the City of Brimley. The City of Brimley is home to 63,400 people with West Brimley having 26,100 people.

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

Continuing on with the city of Brimley, an overview of Central Brimley and the Quigley Suburbs.

An overview of West Quigley.

[TakemeThere 5,834]

Dresden from above, goodbye my friend.


 
street map of the above image in the spoiler below

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[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

Today we follow Highway 550 through the western edge of the Sault Ste. Marie CMA. We will go from the southern point of the peninsula to the northern point.

This is the town of Gros Cap the southern tip is where the St. Mary's River meets up with Lake Superior. The communities here are narrow because they are grown between the Lake and the hillside. Gros Cap is home to 10,465 people. First is following Sunnyside  Road which connects to Hwy 550 in the next city tile.

Following the highway north the town of Gros Cap turns into the town of Round Rock. Round Rock is home to 5,207 people.

The highway leaves the urban area and travels through the hillside for 12km before we reach the urban area of Red Rock. Midway between the two towns, we reach their boundaries at this curve shown below.

Just south of this picture is one of the four roads going to the Prince Wind Farm. After a 12km trip through the wilderness, you end up in the town of Red Rock where Goulais Bay and Lake Superior meet. Red Rock is home to 15,405 people.

 

[philforhockey51 4,216]

Nice! A couple hundred ponies would love to roar through those curves

[Belfastsocrates 1,753]

Collage image of Passau as it currently stands. Passau Island, off the to the left, is my next area to develop. I also need to expand residential areas and I'm also going to change a few things in the older tiles which haven't been changed for a year or more as there's so much great new content to use.

 

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[philforhockey51 4,216]

The Lion's Inlet Day and Night Overviews

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

Some of the Sault Ste. Marie CMA northern communities.

The city of Heyden is home to 21,395 people.

West Heyden looking northwest.

East Heyden looking southwest. The road in the top right corner connects to west Heyden.

 

The City of Searchmont is home to 62,395 people.

Southwest Searchmont looking southeast.

Southeast Searchmont looking southeast.

Northeast Searchmont looking northwest.

Northwest Searchmont looking northwest.

 

The eastern suburbs of the city of Goulais River.

Going from north to south all looking northwest. The two majors road going down connect to all four tiles.

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,198]

Photobucket decided to break the links for all my pictures from the Sim City 4 album across all sites I post them to and I can't get them to load on photobucket to find the problem. 

Since years of my work is no longer accessible, I will be getting another image site to host pictures because there  has been to many problems with this one.

Hopefully I can post pictures again here soon but all my other pictures will no longer be view-able unfortunately.