Ex-Aeródromo - Ciudad del Lago

In a burst of laziness, I'm presenting you not a freshly done vanilla creation, but an old one, from the times I haven't discovered this site and my addiction to download *.dat files, in mid-2014. There were older cities, but not backups of them, even less screen captures.

In the image, we could see a park created after the demolition of the small airstrip that was placed on the former outskirts of Ciudad del Lago. I said 'the' because it was the only way to enter or get out the city by air for several decades.

With the advance of the city, small commerce and residences located around the lot, beggining conflicts between them, and a sore red blob appeared in the 'terrain value' map. A decisive policy had to be taken. In a crazy decision, characteristically SC4-vanilla-esque, a new and bigger airport was located literally over a hill, with its respective unreal retaining walls raising the lot over the whole city by hundreds of feet. And the old airstrip was removed.

Instead of clogging the already depressed neighbourhood with more buildings, I decided to give it a green break. Fastly, the small stores were replaced by mid-rise towers and the social housing by deco condos. The success of this renewal extended way outside the closest radius, stimulating a kind of gentrification of the riparian terrains, a couple of blocks away: large and yellow-grassed sites were replaced by sprawling mansions, and a line of high-wealth residences occupied a strip of terrain at the end of the central peninsula. 

Considering it now, this was the first time I was capable of manipulating the income segregation dynamics of the game, creating a high-wealth neigbourhood away from high-wealth jobs.