Valley Park

100,000 Sims

The experimental city.  Valley Park began with significant plotting of roads.

The metro heart (pictured above) was framed by a one-way border road which connected to the avenues transiting through the town South to North.  Inside the frame, a grid was made, then a central square with diagonal streets cutting up the grid.

The result?  It's alright.  Looks like advertising art for the game from 2003, I think.

One possible advantage was it did partially contain the commercial center, rather then it sprawling along the major roads in every direction.

This was my first university town.  Really glad I got that modular university pack now, but this wasn't a terrible effort at it.

There is a outlier to the downtown, as a freeway cuts across the far southwest corner of the map.  Rather then try to bring the freeway to the downtown, I created a satellite center around an airport and expo center.  Nothing special, but I like ordinary and expected.  Helps to make the cool stuff POP.

Lots of traffic led to this rather elegant mess at a roundabout west of downtown.

I like looking at it from on high.  But you could not pay me to negotiate it in a car.