Bosmonde

[FullStrenght 74]

Hi everyone! I would like to show you my first big city playing Cities skylines after dark: Bosmonde. This city is based on a map of Boston. I am planning to post regular screenshots, and tell you more about the city as this journal grows. For now, enjoy the first picture:

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Off course, any tips and suggestions are very welcome as I am quite new here. Comments are always appreciated 

Edit: added 2 aerial (night) images of Bosmonde, including the spots where the images were shot for you convenience.

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Edit: Added a new map, thanks to Cimtographer!

Cheers!

[dedgren 830]

Welcome to the Cities: Skylines CJ section.  Nice "big city" first pic.

 

David

[Horus_Kol 118]

That is a pretty city indeed - looking forward to seeing more

[bbgunn 3]

I'll be following along.  

[FullStrenght 74]

Thanks for the replies so far! I'll be posting a few more later today, still thinking about the aproach. Maybe travelling towards the city from outside connections?

[FullStrenght 74]

As promised, a few more pictures of Bosmonde. Not based on a theme, but more like eye-candy  With many thanks to the modders who make beautifull custom buildings as such, which enhance the game even further!

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Here we see the old city hall along the Bosmonde river, sided with a double avenue, one of many which connects north to south. Most riverbanks in Bosmonde are occupied by spacious park, not only providing air to the dense city, but also a good buffer in case the water level fluctuates.

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This avenue also connects the north with the south. In the back, you can see the financial district, with many banks, insurance companies and lawyer offices. More prominent in this picture, one of the many churches in Bosmonde. Bosmonde has a wide variety of religions, attracted to the open and tolerant spirit of Bosmonde.

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More towards the eastern outskirt we find the first of the three airports, of which this one is the oldest. Although it sits between agricultural fields, the edge of the city is very close. 

I hope to show you more tomorrow. In the meantime any tips, comments, suggestions or recommendations are appreciated as always. Please tell me what your specific interests are, and I will try to meet them. Cheers!

[boformer 3,169]

Wow, that's VERY close. I would restrict it to small aircrafts

The second screenshot looks great!

[dedgren 830]

Really nice pics of an interesting cityscape.  I wouldn't complain, though, if the tilt-shift effect was lost or at least way lessened somewhere between this and your next update.

 

David

[TekindusT 3,809]

You must have some pretty serious traffic to justify those 12-lane avenues! I like the skyscrapers peeking out of a Euro-like landscape, it is right how I like to build cities.

[FullStrenght 74]

Thanks for the comments so far! 

@Dedgren: I'd like to have that fixed as well, any ideas on how to tackle the blur in the far distance?

@TekindusT: So far traffic has been pretty bad, yes. Maybe I need to work on my intersections a bit more, but on the other hand, I do not want to demolish a complete neighbourhood just to have an easier flow. These intersections with fly overs and tunnels just have a hard time mixing with the European feel I am looking for. Maybe I can show you more about it later today?

[FullStrenght 74]

Hi everyone! Thanks for following my city journal for Bosmonde so far. As I have written before, Bosmonde is based on the Boston map. This next picture shows the actual position of the center of Boston from above, which also happens to be the center of Bosmonde. Bosmonde's name is derrived from the Dutch word for forrest (Bos), of which Bosmonde used to have plenty of, and monde, which is derrived from the Dutch word for mouth (mond), which reffers to Bosmonde's location at the mouth of several rivers. Bridges go in all directions, and form real bottlenecks for daily traffic. Next to these bridges, I have also constructed 2 or 3 tunnels, providing extra connections with the surrounding suburbs.

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For now I am having trouble adding more pictures, but if you hang in there, I perhaps can manage to get them later on to be published. Thanks for looking, and as always, any comments are appreciated!

 

This is one of the intersections I feel unhappy about. They don't really do right to the European atmosphere, and even if they relieve traffic a little, they are still a problem.

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If you have any ideas on how to tackle this I would like to hear. Thanks for looking in any case!

[FullStrenght 74]

An update on the industrial area. I try to combine the practical, logical, with an esthetical approach, having a functional industrial area with parks on the edges, symbolical architecture, and infrastrcture with green structuring spaces.

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This is the same area, but as seen from a different direction. This is one of the first bigger industrial areas of Bosmonde, initially designed to provide work for at least the next 50 years in the primary mining industry. After resources were gone, the area transformed to a more secundary, production industry.

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Despite being a quite polluting area, it's still eye candy of a sort, isn't it?

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All these chemicals in the air make a beautifull sunset  

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Thanks for checking out my Journal! I'll show more of Bosmonde tomorrow 

[boformer 3,169]

 

If you have any ideas on how to tackle this I would like to hear. Thanks for looking in any case!

It looks like a lot of traffic from the bridge is turning left. Maybe a roundabout with a bypass works.

[FullStrenght 74]

I tried to apply your suggestion to change the intersection to a roundabout, and so far the results are satisfactory on all levels. Aesthetically I think it looks very good, much better than before. And as you can see, I celebrated this redo with a nice monument, originally designed for Berlin. For traffic, the first results look good, but I am careful to make a definitive opinion about it.

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Next there is Hamilton park, which originally was a medieval cemetery just outside the city. The reason they used to keep it outside was to prevent any diseases from the corpses. As of today, such risk is gone, and now the area also serves as a local park.

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Close to Hamilton Park we can find Weideweg avenue, the adres to find local culture. To your right, you can see the national museum, home to quite a few masterpieces in art. In the far distance in the line of sight of the avenue the Vivaldi opera, hosting venue's since 1799, the year the first operahouse was opened in Bosmonde. Even further away in the distance, one of our transmitter towers, which covered the cities antenna transmissions since the early 50's. With the digital age, the need for hardware space in the tower has decreased, so there's a lot of space is available. Developers are currently researching if the remaining space can be refurbished to host an observation platform for tourists.

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Thanks for stopping by, and as always, comments are appreciated!

[FullStrenght 74]

 Hey everyone, I got some good advice on a lighting mod. I installed it, and the color is better now. This is how it looks now; it's the Vivaldi Opera shown before, now during nighttime after last night's premiere. Somehow the lights of the Transmitter tower were shut of, does it have something to do with the mod?

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 I'll also show you one of Bosmonde's earliest suburbs, Manor Hills. Strategically located close to the industrial area as well to downtown, close to the water and plenty of space it's a popular area to settle down.

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[dedgren 830]

The roundabout works excellently there in terms of harmonizing with the rest of your city.  The monument is a nice touch.

 

David

[Roadman20 601]

Agreed with roundabout idea looking good with the Berlin touch.  The roundabout also saves space in existing development, which if you decided to maintain a multi-level interchange would require setting aside more real estate and putting local roads intersecting a bit further back from the big aveunes.

[Horus_Kol 118]

That is a great looking roundabout - and loving that last shot from Manor Hills.

[FullStrenght 74]

Hi everyone! Thanks for the nice replies! I hope everyone had a nice weekend. I'd like to start this post with the view of Vivaldi opera again, but in the other direction. Right, there's also a transmitter tower in the far distance here. There's 2 of them in the city...

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This is the one we have seen before, the one that stays dark during night. It is also located close to the old airfield, at the edge of the city. In the far, far distance you can see one of the newer area's of the city still under construction, which will position this 'edge city' in a much more central way. It already makes me think about redevelopping this part...

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And this is the second transmitter tower. It is much more closer to the old city center, on a former dockyard, redevelopped into a public park. It is widely recognized as a city landmark, unlike the first tower, which can be seen in the far background. In both pictures you can also see a ferris wheel, of which I will write more tomorrow. So please stay tuned!

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Thanks for dropping by!

[dedgren 830]

Each of those pics is really nice, but the first one is just stunning.  I missed you asking me above about getting rid of the blur in the distance- some mod I am using is doing that for me.  I will get back to you in a bit.

 

David

[FullStrenght 74]

That's great if you can find it, thanks a dozen!

[Turjan 1,048]

Heh, the Siegessaeule in the roundabout looks familiar . Nice city.

Btw, the blur in the distance is a standard graphics option. Just open "Options", and under "Graphics" in the second paragraph ("Preferences"), disable "Depth of Field". Or tone it down with the slider.

[Horus_Kol 118]

I agree with Dedgren, that first picture with opera house is just incredible (and the other pictures are pretty nice, too)

[Cool_Z 1,547]

I agree with Dedgren, that first picture with opera house is just incredible (and the other pictures are pretty nice, too)

Yep, the way the roads split around it !! Excellent !

[Horus_Kol 118]

I agree with Dedgren, that first picture with opera house is just incredible (and the other pictures are pretty nice, too)

Yep, the way the roads split around it !! Excellent !

That, and with the current light setting in the image and the detail, you could almost believe it's a real picture (I'm still doing a double take each time)

  Edited November 24, 2015 by Horus_Kol  

[Cool_Z 1,547]

Yeah this shot looks very real, but he should use the Dynamic resolution mod to kill the aliasing.

[FullStrenght 74]

Thanks all for the nice comments, I really do appreciate it!

For now, here's the Ferris wheel I promised. It's origin's ly at the beginning of the 20th century, when a small merry go round was built in the Duke's garden. Allthough the palace of the Duke is gone, the orangerie, with views of the river, is still there. The original palace was situated right at the river, to provide fresh water for the duke. He owned a lot of land around it, which he lent to farmers and such, to gain a profit. As the duke went bankrupt, the land was divided, and much of it was urbanized in the 19th century. The remaining part was transformed into a park by an industrial filantropist. In order to improve profits to cover the expenses a bit, he first built the merry go round, but as soon as it went out of date causing profits to drop, he built a ferris wheel around the 1920's to improve profits again. As in the 80's, when the society changed from a industrial economy to a service economy, the park is now owned by the city, with the orangerie functioning as an art gallery.

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Thanks for stopping by!

[dedgren 830]

Pic not showing up on an iPad Pro, my friend.  Just seeing "w7SPT2.jpg" and nothing happens when you click on it.  Nice backstory, in any event.

 

David

[boformer 3,169]

Pic not showing up on an iPad Pro, my friend.  Just seeing "w7SPT2.jpg" and nothing happens when you click on it.  Nice backstory, in any event.

 

Here is an imgur mirror: https://imgur.com/a/iEzDr

 

[FullStrenght 74]

That's weird, I have no trouble seeing the image. Anyone else experiencing any difficulties?