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Helsinki / Salton Bay North

younghappy

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Greetings from Scotland! Here is another work in progress. It is in my Lisanroe region, but this particular city is HEAVILY inspired by Helsinki, the Capital of Finland.

Most of my cities start life as a train station and in this corner of my region, I wanted a coastal city, so I plonked Helsinki train station and things escalated quickly until I had recreated a portion of Helsinki's city centre.

That's all there is to it, thanks to Krio and many others for the excellent content. I used streetview and google earth to help pick the most suitable buildings and I've tried to avoid repetition so far.

A full replication of Helsinki is not feasible because the streets run in many weird angles and there are not always suitable buildings for everything you want to create, so any further progress will be a condensed and re-imagined version of the city.

Full size images are available by clicking on them, enjoy!

The central station area. I have tweaked a few lots in the editor to enhance the realism and fill in some of the gaps:

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Some of the central shopping streets, with pedestrianised zones and tramways:

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This is the first major deviation from real life Helsinki. In reality, the city continues south of the park, but I have decided to have the shoreline here instead (because this is at the edge of my region, and I can't be bothered creating the entire city!

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The shoreline park at another angle:

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And finally, an overview of the work completed so far:

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Thanks for the encouraging comments from the last journal. As I've said, this in not a full recreation and I've taken many creative liberties to make it fit with the game's parameters and my region as a whole, so if I have upset any Finnish people by flooding your neighborhood or getting the colour of your house wrong, well too bad :P

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Amazing, love it! It reminds me of last summer when I was in Helsinki myself. Especially the area around the Central Station looks amazing, I'm sure that mix of reality and your own creativity will result in a fantastic new city with an innovative and individual style. Also,  it'd be nice to see the harbor area with those brick buildings and stuff if that's possible, they look fantastic in my opinion ;)

Keep it up! 

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