Toronto, blast from the past
I originally started my recreation of Toronto, ON, Canada about 3 years ago and have been playing on and off since. The goal of this journal is to portray how close to reality Simcity4 can get regarding builtform and infrastructure. I use only the 4x4 city size, money cheats, removal of garbage, and free water/hydro since they will complicate this simulation far too much. 99% of buildings are grown with only landmarks being placed in the correct locations. I will attempt to update this fairly regularly since I have a heck of a lot built to show off.
Just to get a feel for the early years, the maps below are 10 separate large cities spanning 20 kilometers east to west (roughly just east of Birchmount Avenue to just west of Jane Street) and 10 kilometers north to south (just north of Sheppard Avenue to Lake Ontario)
As you can see in this early aerial shot, I am growing the city bit by bit before moving on.
Here is an older map (1 1/2 years ago) showing the higher order transit including subways (green, yellow, purple, orange), streetcar or LRT (pinkish), highway (red), and rail (black).
Please feel free to make comments or ask questions regarding my creation and I will be happy to respond.
ADDITION:
I have dug up my original Toronto recreation in which I had to restart due to game crashes. I used a more accurate map but I never grew the simulation. This is from 01-01-2006.
Base Map
And the infrastructure
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