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Elveng is a city on the Norwegian east coast; nestled between hills, and the picturesque Elvengfjord. The city has been an important trading spot ever since its founding in 1015 A.D; to this day it is still an important hub of commerce, but its roles has shifted from lumber and industry powered by water, to administration for a lot of the Norwegian economy; mainly the oil industry. 950 000 people live in this city and it's metropolitan area, 500 000 of them in the central core. Info aside, the intro for Elveng will consist of some mosaics, and pictures around the city. For this time it will be mostly centered around the city centre. We'll start off with mosaic of Skutebukta. Skutebukta is one of the oldest parts of the city, with some buildings dating back to the 16th century found in back alleys. Within Skutebukta you will also find its own rail station. A quite dingy and gloomy looking structure from the 1950s in dire need of refurbishing. You can even see some of the cobble poke through the asphalt in some places along the roads of Skutebukta. Despite this being one of the oldest parts of Elveng you won't see many buildings past 200 years old though, there are only a few exceptions. Modern architecture adds contrast lot to the look of the area as well. The last picture of Skutebukta before we move on: Next up, the city around the trainstation. To the west of the train station lies Fritz D. Müllers Vei, this is a six lane divided avenue that runs for three kilometres in a straight line, cutting through the city. It was part of the architect's Fritz Daniel Müller's grand vision of a super highway cutting straight through the city in the 1950s, as a result the city lost many of it's historic buildings, and street networks. Due to the lack of funding it was never realised completely, and neither is it much of a highway, with no interchanges; neither speed limits over 60 km/h. More of Müller's handywork can be seen along the sides of the avenue, with concrete towerblocks towering over the sides of the road to the right. Initially this entire avenue was to be lined with buildings such as these. The Sakhahalian people's republic ,and Pridnestrovian Moldavian People's Republic lies within the walled off area in the blue building, the buildings is frequently visited by protestors, often refugees, or family members of people living within the two countries. Next up, is the area of Kjøs, Kjøs is mostly recognisable from the number of narrow streets in the area, cris crossing between the buildings. Within the Kjøs area lies the radio and television transmitter. The top of the tower has an observation deck, it offers magnificent views over the city, on a clear day one can even see the snow capped mountains in the distance. Assorted pictures around the city. This is Stenersenbygget, easily one of the most hated buildings in the city, mainly because of it's sheer size in land area, and the fact that blocks the sunlight for many of the streets behind it, resulting in falling property prices, and crime on the rise. Attempts to get this building approved for demolition are yet to be successful. Last is a picture of the intersection between Waldemars Allé and Storgata, two of the most important streets in the city. Waldemars Allé was part of a vision by several businessmen to transform much of the central city into a Hausmanian style urban centre, much like Paris. Lack of funding led to only some of the buildings being built between the 1880s to 1910. That's it for this time, i hope you enjoyed the intro.

It's all entirely hand drawn since September 2009. I still have not finished yet. Sorry for the size of it, I can't edit pictures yet.

Coming from a rural area, where the largest town in over a hundred miles has a population of 30K, I can say that you are wrong. Crime in small towns is just as prevalent and often unsolved, while drug and alcohol abuse is often worse. Corruption among authorities is often high; "good old boys" clubs, police abuses, etc. Not to mention weak economies often reliant on volatile or exhaustible resource extraction, possibly with a bit of tourism dollars if your region is "lucky". When you combine that with lack of opportunities, sparsity of services and goods, higher goods costs, and dealing with obnoxious city migrants looking for a "better community", I would safely say us small town folk are getting the short end of the stick.

The "Gesher" bridge. Rout 89V across the Dorimcha River.

Skimbo : thanks, Hong Kong has them you know Adrianor : Thanks, I try to make it like a tourist guide Mikeaut1 : Thanks for dropping by, oh the citizens are use to it Hung Hom Peninsula Welcome to Hong Kong for a new day! today we shall visit the Hung Hom peninsula,! The residential building complex of Hunghom Peninsula was built under the Hong Kong government's Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS) program that was intended to provide housing for middle-class residents at a discounted price. Due to an economic downturn and a shrinking real estate market threatening property values, Hunghom was later sold to the private property developers who originally built the complex. The developers, New World Development Company Limited (NWD) and Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited (SHKP) came up with a reconstruction proposal for Hunghom Peninsula: demolish and redevelop the area into a luxurious private estate.However, the intention to demolish the never-occupied Hunghom Peninsula came under heavy criticism from the public in large part because the demolition process would produce extensive pollution to the environment, which violated both social parties and the companies' corporate mission of being responsible to the society. Under these circumstances, the management team had to withdraw the demolition plan and reconsider their decision. After the developers thought twice about all the relevant parties' interests and took corporate social responsibility into account, they gave up the demolition plan and decided to conduct an extensive internal reconfiguration and renovation to upgrade the property to medium-grade private housing estate standard.Case (A) describes the backgrounds of Hunghom Peninsular Project and its developers, describes Hong Kong's business environment and introduces the three options faced by decision makers. Case (B) reveals NWD and SHKP's choice of the options and the opposition voices against their initial choice. In Case © developers give in to pressure from protestors and change their initial decision, in favor of a more environmental option. Case © brings the story to a close. That's it for today, see you tommorow at Whampoa Garden

Oooooh! Looks awesome!!!!

Wow I just went through all previous entries of this journal and I'm so inspired by this!! Excellent work with everything, your photoshopping skills are fine tuned! And great work with the town in this entry, it is a great representation of the past and highly realistic of that time period! Keep it up!!

paulo is back with another great historical CJ !

Great work on both, can't wait to have them in SimNYC. Though, the textures on 195 3rd Avenue are a bit light, the brick is more tanish than grey. Other than that it looks perfect.

Not sure if this is your problem, but I have a CTD problem when a lot zoned at the the city border grows. It doesn't happen in every city, and it doesn't happen everywhere along the city border. Instead what I found is that a few very specific tiles at the city border, if zoned, will cause CTD when they grow. It will also cause CTD if I plop a building on that specific lot, but NOT if I plop a park. I haven't found a reason for why it happens, but I'm looking for what it might be. Check your city for zoned lots around your city border, and keep your eye on them when you run the simulator. If you're having the same problem as I am, then the lot will get the dirt construction texture, and then CTD. For me, I noticed that the lots had a tendency to grow at the same game time for each crash, and as you're saying your crash occurs on a specific game time. If this is not the case, then dismiss. Hope you get it figured out, because these types of problems can make a person rip their hair out.

what a beautiful city man

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Both Beekman and that Condo look so good. Keep it up!

Beekman is progressing beautifully! Don't overload yourself now with too many BATs but I'm glad to see that there's a few projects in the pipeline.

Ahhh, PMPR and the good old IPON glory days. At least you had a shadow of a soviet hell hole Looking good! All the LE work payed off!

Congratulations, some big milestones there!

Thanks all for your comments Water is made by Calagrafx, check his thread on devotion if you don't find, I will attached the .mat Small news concerning different projects: Birches coming soon on the LEX : Lenin's Mausoleum advances step by step New pack of trees is coming, it deals with Oaks, I miss the 5th stage

This really reminds me of Barcelona! Was that city an inspiration?

 It truly does have a Mediterranean feel. I love the character of the city. The rail work is also quite impressive. An excellent selection of stations. :)

your city is pure sight-seeing!!! absolutly amazing, everything is so bright and the wall to wall buildings are greatly arranged, as wall as the monuments have thier right spot in the city. stunning work

 WOW! It's just incredible! It really has that Mediterranean feel!

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Charles Darwin Life One of the greatest thing about life is migration and the ability to response in changes. Many millions years before 2010, life on Earth was limited into the seas... ... until some weeds and fish-like animals colonized the land. Many millions years later, life was limited on the land... ... until some animals take winds and colonized the skies. In 1957 A.D. (or 12 B.T.) an intelligent specie called Sims made the first steps for the ultimate kind of migration... To the stars! In the 21st century, Sims was sick and tired of the environmental and social problems, like wars and global warming. They want a new way of life, new horizons, new values. At the same time, others prefer not to rebuild the Terran society, but to build a new society on a new world. Mars. How all will end? Who knows? Everything starts from somewhere. This is our start, a small colony. It was a scientific base, but soon turns into the first colony, full of dreams and hopes. This is... Hope-1, the first alien colony. This is the beginning of one of the millions of stories in the Milky Way galaxy. Welcome to Eden O.K., back to 2010. This is my first City Journal and, as you can see, it's a science fiction story. Be warned, it's not supposed to be realistic . It's all about space colonization, future cities and not only. Any suggestion is welcomed, but I'm not going to build a coal power plant just because is more realistic than an antimatter plant . There is a very large story behind Eden, so don't think that this story will end up soon Hope that you like it (By the way, today 14/12 is my birthday. Eden is my gift to everybody )