MariusBleek

When making North American style cities I do model them after my hometown.

Prague, Czech Republic. Most amazing architecture I've ever seen.

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Canada's largest city; Toronto EDIT: Removed oversized picture and replaced with link, please keep all photos in the future under 800x600 or 600x800 as per the Site Rules. Thank you. -SC4 Meister ST Site Moderator

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^^ Some were from the Stex, but the majority were from SC4 Devotion. Search for a guy called "marcszar", I think u will like his work.^^ My attempt at recreating the South Bronx in NY

Heres my harlem replication on youtube

when i went on vacation near santa domingo in the Dominican, i was astounded by their roads.....THERE ARE NO LANES! In fact there are no lines on the road at all except at stop lights. Oncomming traffic had to judge what a safe distance was to not cross into our half of the road. It is a massive free for all to get space and come into the city. Our bus driver was a maniac, but i must say it was like riding a roller coaster.

The imperial palace is a crazy work of art. But in terms of mind boggling "how'd they do it" type structures....It has to be the great pyramid. I mean.......HOWD THEY BUILD IT?

90's cartoons were the best: Rocco's Modern Life Darkwing Duck Biker Mice from Mars Real Monsters Hey Arnold Chip and Dale Animaniacs/Pinky and the Brain Street Sharks Mummies Alive Lol Saturday Mornings were what i lived for

Oh cool. I didn't realize there was a ghetto thread. Woulda posted mine earlier if I'd have known. I actually made a medium city size map of a sprawling one. There is not a single r$$ or r$$$ resident living there, and is a manufacturing based town. Im having trouble uploading the images so heres the links http://img269.imageshack.us/i/simcity4200909260228265.png/ http://img7.imageshack.us/i/simcity4200909260230119.png/ http://img62.imageshack.us/i/simcity4200909260228504.png/ http://img5.imageshack.us/i/simcity4200909260229147.png/ http://img269.imageshack.us/i/simcity4200909260228406.png/

Another crucial event was the oil crisis in '73. That really ended heavy manufacturing in North America for good. most jobs became service based, making previously-industrial cities obsolete. That triggered another massive influx into the 'burbs. Just think how far we've come from thinkin that $26 for a barrel of oil was insanely high LOL. Good times.

Originally posted by: RedImperator Originally posted by: MariusBleek U have to remember why people started leaving city centres in the first place; a lack of well paying jobs. U look at manufacturing cities like Cincinatti, Detroit, Philly etc. Many businesses moved away in the 50s and 60s especially because property prices became too high to locate ur company there without paying taxes that were through the roof.quote> Except that's not what happened. People moved out of the cities because 1) after the Depression and the Second World War, the cities were run down from 15 years of deferred maintenence, 2) the Federal government massively subsidized suburban development with subsidized mortgage loans, mortgage tax writeoffs, and the Interstate Highway system, 3) the Federal government actively discouraged investment in the cities through redlining and other practices, and 4) southern blacks had moved into the cities to take war work, and northern whites wanted no part of them (if anyone cares to contest that, he might want to explain why the suburban developments had restrictive covenants which outright barred blacks from purchasing houses there, even if they met every financial qualification). Businesses stayed in the cities for several decades afterwards, though there was a steady trickle out to the suburbs from the beginning. It wasn't until the 80s that you really saw large-scale suburban industrial and office development, partly because the highways built to bring workers into the cities were so overloaded that workers couldn't get to their own jobs. But far more city jobs were lost to foreign countries, not the suburbs. Every Rust Belt city except New York was absolutely dependent on manufacturing, and we let our manufacturing sector rot. That's where all the jobs went. quote> Cities were run down after WW2???? WHAT??? Post WW2 was an urban boom period for many cities. Large scale construction projects were undertaken after the war, but they werent necessarily investing in the proper infrastructure. Come on now. Most major cities in the U.S. peaked in terms of population in the 1950s (Detroit, Philly and Cleveland come to mind immediately). Ur right with the introduction of the interstate system it incouraged people to flock to the suburbs with larger families due to the baby boom, and i suppose that after generations of living in safe, sleepy suburbia, people have become accustomed to that sort of life (mainly middle-class whites). I didnt really want to bring race into the topic, but i suppose ur right since everything in the U.S. seems to feed off racial strife.

U have to remember why people started leaving city centres in the first place; a lack of well paying jobs. U look at manufacturing cities like Cincinatti, Detroit, Philly etc. Many businesses moved away in the 50s and 60s especially because property prices became too high to locate ur company there without paying taxes that were through the roof. When the jobs moved out of the city and relocated to places with lower taxes, many residents left with them. Now the majority of inner city jobs are informal (getting paid under the table). With small amounts of formal jobs, only a handful of taxes are being payed to the municipal government, making it hard to reinvest capital into the city. And with no job security or benefits from employers, work is never assured. And with more ppl than ever living paycheq-to-paycheq now, it's a risky move to go back to central cities. Of course these examples im giving apply more to North American cities than others, but can still be considered elsewhere too. So as much as I personally dislike suburbia and its negative aspects, hundreds of millions of people do indeed love it. I cant see suburbia dissappearing anytime soon.

Too many nationalists in Europe to make an effective amalgamated country. What would be the primary language? Religion? Cultural activities? There are way too many variables, and you can rest assured that hundreds of millions of people would revolt.

I always thought the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) was pretty funky looking.

Really, the only thing Detroit has going for it are the huge elaborate casino projects (Las Vegas of the Midwest) as well as the Red Wings and Tigers.....I may sound terribly pessimistic to some but come on. You need to look at the reality of the city. Its manufacturing industry was based soley on the automobile, and Detroit did not diversify quick enough. In addition, the 1960s did NOT help its cause. Everything went downhill after the riots. I dont know how well gentrification will assist in Detroit's future, but one can alwasy hope. But after seeing this video i think it will be pretty hard to fix things

Brutalist architecture is appropriately named.....because these horrendous monoliths look pretty brutal

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America. Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and is part of a densely populated region in Southern Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe, which is home to 8.1 million residents and has approximately 25% of Canada's population. As Canada's economic capital, Toronto is considered a global city and is one of the top financial centres in the world. Toronto's leading economic sectors include finance, business services, telecommunications, aerospace, transportation, media, arts, film, television production, publishing, software production, medical research, education, tourism and sports industries. The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), the world's seventh largest, is headquartered in the city, along with a majority of Canada's corporations. Toronto's population is cosmopolitan and international, reflecting its role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. Toronto is one of the world's most diverse cities by percentage of non-native-born residents, as about 49% of the population were born outside of Canada. Because of the city's low crime rates, clean environment, high standard of living, and friendlier attitudes to diversity, Toronto is consistently rated as one of the world's most livable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Mercer Quality of Living Survey. In addition, Toronto was ranked as the most expensive Canadian city in which to live in 2006 and 2007. Flatiron building built in 1887 View from North Toronto along Yonge Street TTC Streetcar University Avenue Old city hall Rowhouses in Old toronto View of highway 401 from Yonge Street

Either New York, Tokyo or London....Just cuz they are the largest global cities with arguably the most influence on the planet

I don't agree that a city is the victim of poor planning if it has good mass transit (namely subways). The antithesis of nickzou's point is Los Angeles. Really, you're not getting anywhere in LA if you dont have a car, but even then, you're stuck in bumper to bumper chaotic traffic a lot of the time. The city and the surrounding metro area has no subway system, a laughable bus system and mediocre train corridors at best. If you ask me, LA is the result of poor city planning, not a city WITH a subway. But being from Toronto myself, I must agree that the subway system could be more extensive. That's why TransitCity sounds like a cool idea to me (Look up TransitCity Toronto if you don't know what I'm talking about).

My second largest city is called Shoalsburough, and is designed exclusively in 1940s New York architecture. For me, Shoalsburough sounds like an older name, so i matched it with its appearance. Its main suburb is called Spamootle......which no1 can take seriously, but i think it sounds cool >.<