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We all know theme, these memes, on everything... what about if they were on Sim City ?? Here are a few I found anything on your side ?

A certain melancholia of bygone times.. _________________________ HAITO PENINSULA The City and Time _____ Haito Peninusla lies south of Oishi Island, the Tokai and Kyuko subway lines stop there _____ As with all cities of East Asia, Oka City, and Haito Peninsula have also been part of planned cities in the 90's to rebuild the city and house poorer people in new flats _____ Each flat is unique, with the furnishings of peoples lives, a jacket, the cup from a birthday a few years ago, holiday pictures from friends in Southern Oka _____ But from outside it's all the same _____ In the bustling streets of one of Asia's most diverse cities, taking a wrong turn is sometimes a blessing _____ The Kaima market is a small local market of the Kaima district a few minutes away from Haito is a deja vu of Oka in the 80's _____ The streets are calm and sleepy on a Sunday morning when the stalls open, for the residents of the massive estates, here is the place to go, where they'll remember going shopping with their parents in the rural village where they grew up.. Such is the reality of the Asian capitalistic city, where what is left of the past is a true wonder.

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..

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 _____________________________________

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

A great track from a Korean insturmental artist _________________________ HAITO CITY The plight of gentrification _____ Ah, there you are, welcome to "More than Less" a small café in an abandonned animal slaughterhouse. The owners Miko and Kaiba were keen to keep the buildings identity alive and do a very partial renovation _____ Haito is nothing special, it doesn't have a skyline a part from a few towers, most buildings are old and have only been partially renovated _____ But it is somewhat of an unlikely attraction for instagramers, tourists and bloggers alike _____ Many artisans, independant artists or small thrift stores populate the district _____ Far away from the glass towers of the center, Haito might be one the best places to go to feel an unspoken side of Oka's history? _____ But by looking at the people who live here, it seems Haito is prone to a phenomenon we call gentrification _____ The Main avenue is changing _____ Inside the buildings, new workspaces are being designed, "coworking", startups, hubs etc.. all that's associated to gentrification _____ Take this building, the Saiza building became a "working hub" but kept it's old identity by keeping the signs _____ But for how long ? The Haito Peninsula project is now open, and is proof international investments are interested in this part of the city.. I loved walking around in Haito, it's fresh and alternative, but the world catches up on these oasis', such is the truth of the asian capitalist city, where the place you grew up will not exist anymore soon.

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!

You're right that 6x6 is interesting,The reasoning behind 4x8 lots are in terms of making Asian cities, 4x8 is an unique size that goes well with most W2W's out there and I can control well where this specific lot grows. I didn't not think about latin american cities, but you're totally right it could work well in them! I'll certainly think about that

Lotting large 4x8 lots with Japanese and Chinese W2W's to make quick and efficient Asian cities I hope to maybe release it on the STEX once I'm done!

Hop you'll find a solution! anyhow another nice update along with the previous I greatly enjoyed reading