PeterStuyvesant

Great start, what are the colonial looking row houses you are using?

Hey,great shots.  BTW, what are the MMP's for the stones and the dirt?

If you grew up in the United States and was blessed enough to grow up in a community, neighborhood, census designated place, etc. which was constructed prior to 1950, you need look no further than your memories of growing up to find inspiration. Prior to 1950, cities and small towns had a functional charachter to them. That is to say that every street was like a room for a different purpose, as in, say a factory or a bustling home. The buildings along the street formed the walls of the room and created a real functional space for the people there to execute functions within. The shopfronts and public buildings along the broad main street created a shared, common area for people to work, shop, run into aquaintences, all the bells and whistles of what makes living life varied and interesting to experience. Not to simply commute through in a capsule transiting routinely from place A, to place B, and once again back to place A. Branching out from this locus of activity are the other primary and secondary thoroughfares of the city. Analogous to thorasic arteries branching out and off of the aorta in your own chest. The details of what makes a city beautiful are up to you and will lend themselves to discovery once you understand what the spaces(outside rooms) in your city are for and how they work. It is an art and not a science, but it a functional bit of art who's strengths and subtleties can be understood without the observer(at first) and the practicioner(later on) having posession of a superlative talent outside of common understanding of how things, living things in particular, work. Your city is a living thing, as is anything which lends grounding and support to other things. Use what you know about life in the world and make it both beautiful to be in and to look upon.

Downloaded it, but for some reason the "BuildingPlop" cheat as seen in the .jpg does not appear in the drop menu along with the others. Can anyone tell me why this is? I am very eager to use the building plop cheat. Thanks.