Sir_Nuttingham

It is an issue in many cities in real life as well as in Sim City. The livibility of fringes between residential and industrial areas. Some want to use every piece of space there is, some put industry a fair distance from where people live. Show us your border areas where industrial flows into residential. Here are examples from my city Bossum Trajectum. There is a huge difference in the quality of the areas between dirty and manufacturing industries and high-tech. Here are some pics of the older fringes of when I just started my city. Characteristic is the small focus for quality of residential environment I had for those areas. With my newer industrial areas the border is more clear: The quality of hightech/residential-commercial fringes is much higher: And this is also technically an industrial/residential fringe:

Fun discussion. I tend to mix, but largely I build my cities organically. It gives me a more natural feel to how cities come to be, and also gives me an idea that there is some sort of history to the city. I can show four examples: In this city, the south used to be all agriculture. Later, the city grew. As a heritage, I declare the farm buildings historic buildings, so they represent of how the area was in the past. I know that the farms don't employ poeple anymore, but I consider them to be historical parks as a memorial of rural times long gone: And some areas are in the middle of the process of being turned from rural to urban:

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Ok the first time ever I show some pics of my cities. As Dutch European, for me "downtown" means the oldest part of town, with normally little highrise. Like in Europe, the highrise in my cities is normally in the suburbs. I also intentionally add little logic to the centers of my cities. Atlantia Bossum Trajectum Forestrum an Aqua Knenpen Mernriff Plateau Dam

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Originally posted by: hmm Very random indeed... I guess they probably inteneded to build a new subdivision out there when the economy was good, but it was canceled during the 2008 economic crash, but received a massive influx of government investment with china's bailout plan, I heard they are dumping over 4 trillion yaun (586billion USD) on infrastructure. It always seems that when any government throws money at a problem, nobody pays attention to where that money goes...quote> Apparantly there is a demand for houses of that expensive prices. Otherwise they wouldn't be so expensive, because nobody would be renting them. So the high prices in World Cities like Beijing and Shanghai are logical, because a lot of rich people live there who cán afford those prices. About the station. Probably we have to understand the culteral differences. In China the Government doesn't neccecerely look at projects as if they must gain profit. They must support their socialist plan by supporting rural area's with facilities that are not neccecerely profitable for the location.

I'm happy for the Americans that Obama got elected. He was by far the best choice for hard working, non-rich Americans, as well as the rest of the world in world-politics. Still I find it a fairly poor democracy when all you get to choose between is liberal-right (democrats) and conservative-right (republicans). No offence, but I thing the US should reconsider stating it's the most democratic country in the world, because it's obviously not. Nothing against American people though! I made good friends over there! Congratulations!

My hometown Nijmegen, The Netherlands (pop: 160.000) Maastricht, The Netherlands (pop: 120.000): Talinn, Estonia (pop: 400.000):