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How about resort towns? The ones with, say, hot springs, beaches, ski slopes, boardwalks, theme parks, water parks, etc. In my area, there are smaller towns that are built around fishing, so maybe fishing villages can form a classification. Some cities here have made it big while relying solely on fishing, e.g. Navotas. Also, Shopping Cities might be valid. You know, the cities that are built around shopping malls/factory outlets/duty free outlets.

Hey ST people! I have a question. Whenever I establish cities, there comes a time for each one when the residential zones get overwhelmed by 3x4 mansions by R$$$ residents. I mean, yeah, it's nice that the city has a really high median income and all, but those mansions just suck up so much space. So when my cities get infested by villas, I zone more residential, place schools and hospitals where they are most accessible, and I get normal 2x1 houses at first, but then they, too, get replaced by R$$$ lots. This is especially concerning to be now because one of the cities is already building skyscrapers. I want to house the residents in high-density tenements, apartments and condominiums, and I do get those occasionally when I zone high-density, but most of the time, I get, you guessed it, R$$$ villas. So how do I manage this? How can I make some inner-city ghettos or middle-class suburbs like in real life for a change?

Beijing Capital International Airport is a really nice airport. No clutter whatsoever. Every process that I had to ran very smoothly (hampered, however, by the employees not being able to speak English very well). The interior is very minimalist, but not empty. Overall, the Beijing airport was actually kinda relaxing. Newark Liberty is also very well-designed, in my opinion. I liked it way better than the terminal of JFK that I had to depart from the last time I went to New York. JFK, for me, is cramped and is showing signs of age. And JFK charges for WiFi access. Who does that??? As for the airport in my area (Ninoy Aquino International), I absolutely hate it. The terminal holding most of the international flights is really tiny, and it is obvious there that management is aggressively downsizing, to the point that they actually use used luggage stickers to fix conveyor belts. I like the architecture, though.

Because I live practically in the boundary between suburban and rural, rapid transit it a big challenge for me. I have managed to get by with local forms of transit. You all may have heard of the jeepney. If I do need to get on the rapid transit system, I have two options. Santolan station is on the Purple Line, which goes to the downtown Manila area. To get here from home, I have to take one of the jeepneys. The other station that I can easily reach, this time by bus, is the Ortigas station on the Blue Line. The Blue Line passes through the financial districts and government offices of greater Manila. That explains the picture. Ortigas station actually is very peculiar for me, because it is so near another station of the same line: Shaw Blvd station. Ortigas station is adjacent to the large blue mall in the middle of the photo. The blue mall is neighbors with the orange mall and the two towers towards the right of the photo, and Shaw Blvd station is attached to that orange mall.

Highways are good for when you want to connect major city centers to their suburbs without having to deal with the traffic of miles and miles of suburban intersections. They are also good for forging freight routes, connecting the I-D of the inner city, the I-M and I-HT in the industrial parks, and the farms way out there in the rural areas. Freight trucks add significant traffic to city roads which can significantly increase the commute times of the people who work there. I, for one, use Maxis ground highways all the time, because I think they look more natural when on empty land or farmland than if I were to use avenues. Elevated highways don't really matter much to me, except when I decide that a roundabout interchange would look awesome on the terrain that I am building on. Have yet to install RHW, though. (off topic: have you guys noticed that the underlining seems to never end on this page? what gives?)

I think the Manila area can give pretty good examples of all the possible scenarios that can happen with old master-planned middle class neighborhoods. Quezon City has a population of more than a million people, and most of them are middle-class and work in the government or for the universities nearby. The Projects (as I like to call them because they have very creative names like Project 1, Project 2, Project 3...) were planned to be middle-class, and they have remained so up until the present day. However, some projects, especially the ones near the Diliman area, became more upper-middle class, while the projects near the red light districts in Cubao, well, you get the idea. Whereas, in the area where I live (in the adjacent province of Rizal), the gated communities that were designed to be middle class pretty much stayed that way up until now. The western part of the province is filled to the brim with middle-class families who send their kids to private schools (but not the really exclusive ones) and work in professional jobs: doctors, lawyers, engineers, office workers, and, because we are in the Philippines, call center agents . Also, for an example that might be closer to home, New York has massive swaths of middle-class neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Staten Island and Queens that apparently have stayed that way for a very long time, judging from what I observed when I was there.

Barangay: San Juan - 91,196 (barangays are like districts) Municipality: Cainta - 289,833 Province: Rizal - 2,315,098 Region: Cavite-Laguna-Batangas-Rizal-Quezon Region (CALABARZON) - 11,743,110 Country: Philippines - 94,013,200

Gold Blood - Kids in Glass Houses Help Is On The Way - Rise Against Also starting to familiarize myself with Foster the People. Might play that next. Ever since, I have always listened in semi-shuffle i.e. shuffle, but end up choosing the song anyway of I hate the next track.

This was one of my attempts at learning Illustrator, actually. This is the City of Pinaglabanan, in the Province of San Francisco. It is the largest city of the province, and also the most highly urbanized one. This is just the subway map, actually, because the city also has a monorail system running between San Dionisio and Parian. There are also trains serving the periphery of the city and its suburbs. I might try making another map with those systems in the future.

You seem to be having fun with the effects! My opinions, based from my experience with graphics: 1. Sunburst is really cheesy, unless if there really is a strong source of light that the glare is emanating from e.g. lighthouses. 2. Cyanotype will look great with landmarks, to give it a postage stamp/paper money look. 3. Pyramid Paint wouldn't find much application for images of 3D figures that are under perspective. Leave that to 2D images e.g. pictures of people or scenery. 4. Platinum works! Somehow this looks better than plain greyscale. 5. Pencil, Colored Pencil and Glowing Edges are just wrong, unless those happen to be nightclubs. 6. Infrared Film has a sort of spy-movie look to it. In the context of a CJ, this might be good in newspapers. 7. Good call in using Daguerrotype on the castle! 8. Cross-Process reminds me of Lomography and old pictures from the 1970s. If you're going for nostalgia, this will be useful. 9. Black Pencil just won't work with SC4 screenshots because of the game's projection. 10. Albumen, Aged Newspaper and Box Camera are excellent! As for the contest, I'm actually new to the whole CJ business, so let the veterans answer.

Sounds good. This new CJ section might actually make me do an actual CJ. Goodbye lurking!

I live in Cainta, Rizal (plus points to those who can point at it on a map lol). I am in college right now (specifically in UP Diliman, Chemical Engineering), and yes, it is evident in my school that many people ditch Filipino for English just to sound, er, stylish. Not that there's anything morally wrong with it, but I do see that it is such a waste of national culture. Yeah. I know. My post count is low. I just seem to be the lurker type when it comes to Simtropolis. I am trying to start a CJ, though, so that might change. Hopefully. And I recognize frdrcklim from citiesxl.com... You should pass by more often, there were a lot of changes.

First of all, farms aren't really very eco-friendly. They produce loads of water pollution. Some sims hate living near them, too. Now, on to the answer. When the game demands that you build agriculture, it does not necessarily mean build agriculture there and then. You can (and should, because you have space issues) build outside the city, in a place in the region that is connected to the city you're playing right now via a road. Also, when you get the hang of this site and other sites, you might find smaller varieties of farms (some are stacked one on top of the other, even!), and those might help utilize space more efficiently. Some tips: 1. You don't have to have the entire chunk of farm that the game plots out for you when you zone agri. You can zone smaller portions and cut them up with roads, while getting the same effect with the same number of farms, but more space to build on. 2. It's OK (and at times, necessary) to start with agriculture, because it is a great way to start a city economy with less pollution. Medium density industry, though providing much more jobs per tile, is much more conducive to pollution than agriculture, so having agriculture before other forms of industry can help. You can zone denser industry later on when you have enough demand and education for high tech industry.