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RENAGAWA-IKKU Moving to another great Okataian City! _____ Good morning ! it's early, indeed, luckily the hostel has prepared you breakfast, so enjoy a good breakfast to start of your day _____ We are in Renagawa! Oka's second largest city and the capital of the Koun Province! _____ On your left is the Politics and Governance section of the Uni, Stephen Chawan studied there! _____ Renagawa is very famus for it's canals that criss-cross the city _____ Here we can order a coffee, the shops will soon open _____ Renagawa Central is one of Oka's largest stations, it's trains can go as far as Tokyo ! if you want you can take the Moonshine Express from Renagawa to Tokyo via Kaijo _____ The university tower, one of the best views on the city _____ Where will we go next ?

Very nice update Ulisse simple and effective graphics!

Very very nice! I remember the cultural history museum in my hometown had a full size Tongkonan I use to love when I was a kid, it's bold shape really impressed me. A great new page on this visit of Indonesia

great neighbourhood, wouldn't mind moving in one of 'em villas

Great images! I like a lot the retro art deco you've captured, it's very immersive and reminds me a lot of when I went to California and visited the Eastern Columbia Building that was amazing! I also like a lot the selection of buildings Ps, just a hint, press G it will make the SC4 grid go away when you take pics

Really beautiful! Interesting text and your patience has paid off, great images Any visits possible ?

Lot's of nice pictures and gifs, they do capture a lively city I love Morningside park, I'd certainly consider going to run there !

The Jaqqa Convention Center An Old CSL project, but my laptop from 2010 isn't powerful enough to run the city, hopefully I can buy a new pc soon

My Asian city block growable project! I'm very happy with the results, it's very quick and efficient for asian cities! Trying to keep dependencies to a strict minimum with simple lots. I'm also working on a varity of other lot's for estates and growable instances with mainly SOMY and Danchi dependencies, hope to share soon ! Soooorrry for the picture quality, I don't know why illustrator exported it so bad _____________________________________

AOHI VILLAGE If clothes spoke _____ Far from the city down south, in the jungles you'll find Aohi village _____ Aohi is said to be the birthplace of the Okataian National dress, the Shinpo featuring the national colours, gold and blue, the dress also features red, the royal colour. Lynda our tourguide has agreed to pose wearing it _____ Aohi village has a rather discreet architecture on the contrary to it's textile heritage _____ Okataian textiles developed under the influence of fabrics from Southeast Asia, China and mainland Japan. The rich variety and technique of Okataian textiles are beyond compare, even surpassing those of Japan and Teiko _____ You can still make yourself a dress here, Aohi was the village where the Imperial family got their cloths for ceremonial dresses _____ Oka is blessed with a variety of subtropical plants that can be used to dye textiles. Turmeric produces yellow pigment, and Japanese bayberry results in brown. And several different kinds of plant pigments are mixed to achieve a wide color range _____ The vilage is an Okataian Heritage site, and is looking to apply to AINESCO _____ It is the epitome of dyed Okataian work, is identified by its beautiful array of radiant colors, including vermilion, purple, indigo, yellow and green. It was used for royal attire and also for clothes worn by court entertainers. It is an important craft representing the Okataian culture. The dress became this symbol especially after Japan annexed Oka in 1926 and banned it, the jungle revolts began against the japanese in 1936. Men and women armed with only a gun wearing these clothes with pride would start a jungle guerilla until the iberation of Oka in 1946..

Thanks ulisee for commenting here Thank you very much! I'm happy you enjoyed the immersive side I tried to capture Thanks carl You're right Dryan it can be controversial at times, but it keeps the city alive and evolving You wish JM Thanks! I use to have lot's of Japanese houses, but settled on these ones that look older and somewhat unique

Hey! A very cool project I just discovered I'd love to be a part!: Towerdude Male Libra

Lovely piano @Odainsaker ! Very nice indeed I've added this to my playlist only a few days ago

At a glance Japanese cities seem to mix both organic and pragmatic city design, Kyoto and Tokyo are very different, the key might be to decipher it's core structure before even considering Assets or mods. ..sorry if it's a long text To me there seems to be two phases with contrasting concepts Originally as most Japanese culture had been imported from China and Korea the city plans followed the Chinese quadrangular design, breaking the rules once you left the walled city. This seems to have remained true until the Empire and the war. The second phase is much harder, but extremely interesting Japan post World War II was a time of lost cultural identity. The strength and certainty of the Japanese culture and citizens during the war was now in ruins, as were the cities and towns ravaged by fighting and the atomic bomb. Leading to the question many citizens were asking, ‘what is it to be Japanese?’. The most evident and massive changes in the Japanese urban system and townscape occurred in the period between 1955, which saw the official end of the postwar phase of reconstruction of the social and economic fabrics, and the early 1960s. This was the period which has been generally known as the "Japanese Economic Miracle" or "Great Economic Growth", with an average national GDP of 9% per year for the entire decade until the early 1970s. However, even though the main outcome of economic advancement resulted in the development of modern infrastructures, an improvement of living standard, better alimentation and a general increase in the national wealth and technological progress, new serious problems arose as direct consequences of that fast growth, posing a severe threat to the social life of the citizens of the Japanese metropolises. A lack of governmental pollution standards and urban regulations, what made the levels of pollution more acute and dangerous to the health of citizens, was the presence of a high concentration of factories and industrial plants in urban areas, with the high density of population placed in the big industrial cities, caused both by the rapid urbanization of the previous years driven by economic growth, and by the fact that in Japan the industrial complexes tended to be located in small geographic areas as integrated clusters of interrelated industries close to each other and to the worker's residential areas (kombinatos). Furthermore, the pace of accelerated urban growth and the fast urbanization of large rural lands generated a massive extension of disordered areas and uncontrolled urban sprawls on the outskirts of all the industrial cities. This caused two main problems: the chronic shortage of many public services and facilities faced by the growing number of their residents (such as the lack of parks and libraries, inadequate roads, sewers and water supply systems), and the awareness that the inefficient land use in the vast extensions of congested and undeveloped/unplanned urban areas created serious obstacles for any attempt at further improvement and urbanization according to rational plans, because of the higher costs to be paid for the construction of the infrastructures and lack of space for effective improvement works. The consequences of this tremendous mix of ineffective building standard laws, inconsistent city planning and political unwillingness, caused the fast, chaotic and largely unplanned development of vast low quality urban areas in the main industrial districts of Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya, creating a set of specific and less specific issues concerned with expansion of the urban model of an industrial metropolis, which called for a response equally rapid and effective. The Japanese city is still a project we are waiting to see finish, and the same goes for Korean and Chinese cities.. So how do you that in a video game ? I believe it would be to simulate this scenario on your city : -First making sure you understand how the real cities developed : I usually make a diagram of how they work (what are Tokyo's focal points? how are they connected? why are they like that?) -Then designing your city scenario on paper, to then build in game, this way your city will have an authentic Japanese structure and finally getting the assets, mods etc.. will make it look the part! It's a bit of an intellectual response.. but I sure hope it helps!