Show us your Downtown/CBD

[zdza 547]

Overlooking state parliament, former governors house (now state library), and the original church. 

 

180 from previous shot.

[Judazzz 1,936]

That looks really good! Love the eclectic mix you created: a US-style city with a dash Europe (some Frankfurt towers, Dutch trains and pancake flat land, ...)
btw: those train tunnels are really intriguing. Do you use any underground stations? And where do they show up again?

[zdza 547]

1 hour ago, Judazzz said:

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There's 40m of vertical elevation in places, the city is built on a hill it's pretty difficult to see though.

As for the rail, here is a map, there are other lines that aren't shown that run away from the northern station.

[Matthias King 348]

On ‎4‎/‎19‎/‎2016 at 5:52 PM, Judazzz said:

What's the light brownish red brick mid-rise building in the foreground, beside the highway, between the radio station and concrete lot with shipping container and excavator?

[Judazzz 1,936]

1 hour ago, Matthias King said:

What's the light brownish red brick mid-rise building in the foreground, beside the highway, between the radio station and concrete lot with shipping container and excavator?

It's one of Prosper's buildings.

[Matthias King 348]

Huh. I have that one. I guess I didn't recognize it. Thanks.

[hbn 244]

 

Restart of my city with better terraining. For some reason the game is missing Parts 3, 5 and 11 of the WTC complex despite having subscribed. CBD at the moment. Will have to get some other skyscrapers to transition the heights to the smaller buildings better. Using Ploppable RICO, Realistic Population and Consumption mod and Rush Hour.

(for some reason this post is duplicating the image no matter how many times I delete it). The lighting on the building to the left looks a bit skewed for some reason. I've not used the LOD toggle for that screenshot, could be why?

[Ltw 401]

5 hours ago, hbn said:

 

Restart of my city with better terraining. For some reason the game is missing Parts 3, 5 and 11 of the WTC complex despite having subscribed. CBD at the moment. Will have to get some other skyscrapers to transition the heights to the smaller buildings better. Using Ploppable RICO, Realistic Population and Consumption mod and Rush Hour.

Looks great! You could also download the World Trade Center in one piece. The author uploaded a version which needs the sub-buildings enabler. Maybe that helps? You can find it here.

[Whitefang Greytail 45]

This might get the vote for the most awful downtown. Has a Hong Kong feel to it. 187k citizens call the downtown area (both sides of the river) home and it has 155k jobs. The bound for the district is the highway which might be hard to spot in the back.

Hope you don't feel claustrophobic afterwards.

Except that I don't think the area has out done the world's densest suburb, Mong Kok. I'll quote this from Wikipedia.

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With its extremely high population density of 130,000/km² or 340,000 per square mile, Mong Kok was described as the busiest district in the world by the Guinness World Records.^[2

 

[Judazzz 1,936]

It definitely has that Asian metropolis vibe (well, maybe except the separated One WTC twins ), really good stuff! 

[zdza 547]

Finally got around to adding the streetcar system, in my city it was never truly removed in the 1920s because along with the heavy rail the car couldn't compete with public transport.

 

"muh sightlines"

[Matthias King 348]

5 hours ago, zdza said:

Finally got around to adding the streetcar system, in my city it was never truly removed in the 1920s because along with the heavy rail the car couldn't compete with public transport.

 

"muh sightlines"

Where did that two-lane street with yellow centerline come from?

[gfvsims 169]

On 26/05/2016 at 9:08 AM, Matthias King said:

Where did that two-lane street with yellow centerline come from?

If I'm not mistaken, that's the Roads United: American Roads mod.

[Matthias King 348]

Thanks. I just looked at it on the workshop and that is a huge mod. Almost 300 megs just for that. It looks nice, but I don't know if my computer can handle it with everything else I have.

[Matthias King 348]

On ‎3‎/‎19‎/‎2016 at 8:47 AM, Judazzz said:

I was wondering, how do you get the barriers from elevated highways on the ground? I don't like the tall sound barrier version of the highway, but I like the 'jersey barrier' version on the elevated highways and wish there was a way to get that on non-elevated highways.

How did you get it to do that?

[Roadman20 601]

1 minute ago, Matthias King said:

I was wondering, how do you get the barriers from elevated highways on the ground? I don't like the tall sound barrier version of the highway, but I like the 'jersey barrier' version on the elevated highways and wish there was a way to get that on non-elevated highways.

How did you get it to do that?

You just use something like Fine Road Heights and force 'elevated' with either 0m or 1m elevation.  At least that's how I do it.

[Judazzz 1,936]

3 minutes ago, Roadman20 said:

You just use something like Fine Road Heights and force 'elevated' with either 0m or 1m elevation.  At least that's how I do it.

Same here. I always use elevated mode for highways in urban settings and at interchanges, whereas highways in rural settings get the default look.

[Matthias King 348]

Is there any way to do it without fine road heights?

[Roadman20 601]

10 minutes ago, Matthias King said:

Is there any way to do it without fine road heights?

Impossible without a mod, that's for sure.  Not sure if there's something solely for force changing roads though on the Workshop.

[Matthias King 348]

Good to know. Fine Road Heights is one I've avoided, along with No Pillars. As I understand, they're pretty notorious game-breakers.

On a somewhat related note, is there any way to remove pedestrian crossings?

[Roadman20 601]

14 minutes ago, Matthias King said:

Good to know. Fine Road Heights is one I've avoided, along with No Pillars. As I understand, they're pretty notorious game-breakers.

On a somewhat related note, is there any way to remove pedestrian crossings?

Both of those mods use to be pretty bad.  The Fine Road Tool by SamsamTS was a complete rework of FRH using no detours or tool replacement, making it quite stable into the future.  BloodyPenguin also redid NoPillars after the original was abandoned, so it's been in good hands for sometime now. 

If you're talking about removing pedestrian crossings at intersections... I wish to know where one was too.

 

[Matthias King 348]

I didn't know they had been passed to new modders. Bloody Penguin certainly has a sterling reputation. Knowing that, I might check it out after all.

[Koesj 659]

For my own road efforts, both mods are very much mandatory...

[Judazzz 1,936]

13 hours ago, Koesj said:

For my own road efforts, both mods are very much mandatory...

I second that. And not just for being able to use any road type at will, but also to get proper straight bridges, slopes, ramps and all - in vanilla state the game tends to make a hash of it sometimes....

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Skyline at night

[zdza 547]

Average floor height approaching 10 stories. bonus stuff under the bridge

[Abrams 1,744]

Very nice!

[Ltw 401]

I've been working on my Downtown area for quite some time. There is still a lot to be done (I'm going to place buildings on the left side of the flatiron building and I want to place at least the Empire State Building and the Chrysler building on the right side of this picture, that will get a sort of Midtown Manhattan vibe). However, I wanted to share my progress this far already.

[gfvsims 169]

This is my latest city, Franklin. I'm quite pleased with how it's turning out.

[HipHop01 21]

On 6/20/2016 at 9:09 AM, gfv1974 said:

This is my latest city, Franklin. I'm quite pleased with how it's turning out.

Reminds me of 4th avenue, Brooklyn!