Jump to content
  Help ST with a Donation

  •   Announcement

Bowden Region

A City Journal by trackstar35

Sign In to follow this  
Followers 0
  • Entries
    14
  • Comments
    8
  • Views
    2,454

About this City Journal

Used no demand or civic mods. I tried to build a realistc region with a center city and suburbea and farmland

Entries in this City Journal

trackstar35

Regional Update

By trackstar35,

It has been a while since my last post. The intention of this post is to catch up on the regional developments. Almost ten (10) cities have been built since the last post. From west to east: Sandy Shores, Fairview Oaks, Hennessy, Harker Heights, Sunset Valley, Ft. Hood, Creighton, Cedar Park, Kingwood, Del Calle, Coppell, Alexander, Dupoint, and Parma. Photos and descriptions of each one of these cities will be on the following posts. There are still a couple cities with nothing but a highway running...
trackstar35
Reconstruction of the I-30S & Hwy 5 intersection. This intersection has remained unchanged for quite some time, and functioned perfectly well when the region was less built up, and Rockwall was less built up. A couple new exits were haphazardly constructed in order to hopefully ease the growing traffic. However, this achieved the oppesite effect as new medium density and high density buildings began to sprout up around these new exits, in turn causing worse traffic problems. Unfortunately, the current...
trackstar35
Since the last post, some exciting new things have occured for the City of Los Santos. First of which is the downtown area has started to develop: In addition, the city has expanded to the west and to the north: Afterwards, the city finished the extensive building of I-30. This allowed the additional access needed for Los Santos to found its very own airport, Los Santos International. The new airport attracted new businesses and commerce, as well as provided a vital hub for transportation. Soon after The...
trackstar35
And here are the beginnings of Los Santos. It will be a major city focused on high-tech and manufacturing with a central business district. The city started growing in the south and east moving slowly west and northwards. Here is the future downtown: The following are the major highway intersections: First up is where I-95 and I-30S split to the southeast of downtown: Next is the attempted cloverleaf I-95 and I-30N northeast of downtown: And here is the future sight of a trumpet interchange on the west...
trackstar35

Next Project

By trackstar35,

For the next project, I will be building a city named Los Santos in the large plot to the north. It will have a central commercial district where the high-rises will be. Also, there will be a monorail system in the central district with some lines snaking outwards towards the suburbs. The exitsting train system will interconnect with the monorail system. There will also be a subway system in downtown. The main highways will be as follows: I-95 / I-30 connecting from Bowden will split downtown and I-95 will...
trackstar35

Farmlands

By trackstar35,

And this is the final entry for now. Congratulations if you stuck it out, because I am no professional. If you have any comments or advice, please feel free. Anywho, we find ourselves outside the city and into rural America. Heading from La Miranda north on State Hwy 5, we reach I-30 again in Los Alamos. This is the last bastian of suburbea mixed with some undeveloped farmlands: As we continue, I-30 veers north for bit while in Grapeseed: We'll take a slight detour, a circle if you will into Iona and...
trackstar35

The Suburbs 2

By trackstar35,

We saw the western part of the region, primarily following I-10. Now we'll head east on I-10 and I-30 to see the rest of the region. First up is East Benard on I-10. This is where many low-wage jobs are located. As a medium-sized city plot, the whole southern half is devoted to dirty industry. In addition, there are many manufacturing jobs in the north half of the city. Next up is Rosemead, where State Highway 5 intersects I-10 twice as it takes a slight jog. This was quite difficult to do 2 trumpet...
trackstar35

The Suburbs

By trackstar35,

As promised, I will go over where the real population in the region lives. With only half of the citizens living in Bowden and Providence combined, most sims take the long commute from the quiet suburbs to the busy city centers. We will travel from West to East, from the farmlands at the edge of the map to the farmlands at the other edge. First up is "New City," not because I started it before I named it, but because I was tired of naming cities: Just to the north, with 1-10 access through New City is...
trackstar35

Providence

By trackstar35,

Here is Providence, a city that has grown with Bowden and perhaps because of it. Despite the large central population, there is still much room in the east for this city to grow. This is primarily due to no neighboring city there and my overall laziness. I-95 runs north and south through the city, starting as a 4-lane highway and reaching a 10-lane highway from downtown, north to Bowden. Intercity traffic is not a problem due to monorail, bus, and subway systems. Additionally, Hwy Loop 4 runs around...
trackstar35

Regional Views

By trackstar35,

Well this is the intro into the overall region with just shy of 1,000,000 sims and still more room to grow. overall east west main cities' transport view On the next post, we will travel to Providence which is the secondary city of the region (St. Paul to Minneapolis, Ft. Worth to Dallas, etc.).
trackstar35
Now it's time for some pretty photos, instead of talking about highways and such. An overall view at night Northern part home to the university, high-tech, and research center Upper Eastside, just across I-95 / East Loop 110 from downtown The Financial district Midtown And of course the all important mayor's house and such The airport and convention center, off I-10 and West Loop 110 Northwestern Manufacturing District
trackstar35
In this page I will show the main arteries connecting the cities together. First, is the I-95 southern connection to Providence. Each day about 12000 sims head south to Providence and about 25000 sims head north to Bowden. Next is the I-10 connection east to East Benard, the industrial heart of the region. Each day about 6000 sims travel into Bowden and about 26000 sims into East Bernard on this freeway. And the other I-10 connection is west to Katy. 14000 sims daily commute into Bowden and about 3000 sims...
trackstar35

City of Bowden

By trackstar35,

Here is the central city of Bowden. I'm now on year 500 or so on the Maxis time. This is main commercial center of the entire region and also has thousands of high-tech jobs. From every direction, sims commute to and from Bowden daily. I ran the traffic querry tool and will post the numbers later if you are interested. The downtown area is "inside the loop." There are a couple other areas where skyscrappers were built, but for the most part the outlaying area are medium and low density structures. The...
trackstar35
To start, I began with 4-RHW as basic highways, expanding as needed. What I did differently than most users is I started building away from the future downtown area until I had enough demand for mid-rise commercial buildings. I built low-rise housing and worked inwards, meanwhile building the industrial zones primarily in the neighboring city of East Benard, which still has almost all of the Dirty Industry in the region. In the past I have used ordinance mods to speed things up, but nearly every...
Sign In to follow this  
Followers 0
×

Thank You for the Continued Support!

Simtropolis depends on donations to fund site maintenance costs.
Without your support, we just would not be in our 24th year online!  You really help make this a great community. *:thumb:

But we still need your support to stay online. If you're able to, please consider a donation to help us stay up and running. This helps sustain a platform where we can share our community creations for years to come.

Make a Donation, Get a Gift!

Expand your city with the best from the Simtropolis Exchange.
Make a Donation and get one or all three discs today!

STEX Collections

By way of a "Thank You" gift, we'd like to send you our STEX Collector's DVD. It's some of the best buildings, lots, maps and mods collected for you over the years. Check out the STEX Collections for more info.

Each donation helps keep Simtropolis online, open and free!

Thank you for reading and enjoy the site!

More About STEX Collections