robotnik

My vote goes to Wellington, New Zealand. I'm watching the sun rise over the city as I write this. It's also a superb case study for a lot of urban design problems.

Looks horrible. I'm glad nobody took any photos of it for me to link.

Formerly a quiet retirement village at the Western gates of the Emerald National Park, Emerald Hill Zone began to 'wake up' when a small EHZ collective began to utilize the natural gas and thermal energy in the area. More to come, just compressing images.

Haha, reminds me of Transport Tycoon

Date: 4/7/2005 12:08:27 PM Author: flrscf That looks very good, jasperdeman.nl! Well here are a few of mine accomplishments. The city centre of Juinen. This pic is a little outdated. And here a rural area near the town of Feijenoord. What do you think of it?quote> This may sound ignorant but I didn't think there were hills in Holland ?

Wow. Reminds me of Simcity2000 where you'd just drag some High Density over the whole map and power it. Not a big fan of skyscrapers, in fact the highest building I ever use is the pioneer park building from the stex, but this is nonetheless very impressive.

Personally I like grids but I like to go freeform when it comes to individual neighborhoods. I'll have a fairly large road grid with something like 20 squares inside then I'll just randomly lay streets so that I can get 1x1 houses because I just love seeing row after row of little houses. quote> Yeah, I've been doing that of late. I pruned a lot of the uglier 1x1 RES from my plugins the other day so my neighbourhoods look beautiful

I used to prefer tight griddy for commercial and loose freeform for residential however now i have begun a large region with loose freeform grids for the lot. That is, there are lots of freeform shapes but there is a loose correspondence of those shapes with little town squares. We need a simcity dialect to adequately express these ideas.

Sorry about the double posting guys. I posted the first one with aobut 6 images and it gave me an error so I didn't bother trying again. Anyway, my goal is to make a city that is pretty much realistic, and has a lot of problems. What city in the world is perfect? (bar those overly planned ones such as Brasilia and Canberra but are they perfect? I wouldn't think so) So basically I'm manufacturing a lot of traffic problems by myopic town planning. Idiot town councillors approving bad developments etc. And then I can fix the problems or try to later. With the bridge completed, the suburb of Sandringham was able to be developed, easing pressure on the infrastructure of the North/East banks. Emerald Hill Zone with the Selucia Forest in the background, the Emerald River in the foreground and the Emerald Hill National Park to the East. Controlled growth by the council has kept the beautiful Selucia forest relatively unharmed. More expansion of the town is underway, this time to the NorthWest off Great South Road. A little controversial, the council was split almost 50/50 on this development with some planners suggesting that the suburban spread could in effect kill off the city and cause traffic woes. Could Emerald Hill Zone be looking forward to bigger problems down the road? We shall see. Capulet High School in Telford. Sandringham promised open spaces and opportunity for EHZ residents, however, bad planning and a saturated job market has left a number of poorer pockets throughout the town. The EZCO collective recently voted to purchase a prime piece of real estate in a potential growth location near the CBD to build their new headquarters. EZCO now run two power plants in the region and have vested interests in the Waterworks and Railways. The water catchment stream has become badly polluted from the outflow of the industrial area combined with recent storms. In particular, a railway accident in which a shipment of rubiks cubes derailed has caused the most problems as the cubes clog up sewage outlets and kill fish. While EHZ is suffering from many civil problems, a national hotel chain has decided to set up shop at the base of the scenic Emerald Hills. Could this be the start of EHZ as a tourist destination? Town planners realised recently that the low residential spread will in effect only cause more problems and that high density residential zoning was required in close proximity to the city. About 50 homes were demolished to make way for a new suburb just north of the station. Rapid expansion of Sandringham has put excess traffic pressure on the Sandringham bridge as the only route to the rest of Emerald Hill Zone. Council coffers however, cannot afford to fund the construction of a supplementary bridge. Further subdivision of forest land to the west.

Construction of a new bridge over the river has begun. The covered bridge you see here is merely for transporting the heavy machinery required to complete a civil feat such as this. A functional design has been selected. This will open up new development potential on the East and South sides of the river. The Sandringham Bridge will be the jewel in this mayor's crown. That's all for this evening. I'll no doubt facilitate a population explosion after dinner. Comments and ideas welcome.

The Emerald Hill Business District. With such a small population, and with a large proportion of that population working the EZCO Industrial Development, the service sector has suffered. Local Mayor Chester Herbert, who's long term at the helm is coming to an end has decided to increase business in the business district by lowering taxes. Prudent zoning of residential areas will also occur over the next five years.

The EZCO reservoir was completed in 2015, Three years after the idea's conception. Problematic terrain conditions such as landslides meant that it had to be placed further West that originally intended and that a small catchment stream was required off the Emerald River.

The explosion in population has meant new subdivisions, usually sustained by small employers such as Pete's Pipe Co in this image, have been popping up all over the area. While these are ugly, there has been no way for new mayor Abbot Smythe to control it.

Weather problems delayed the project but one hundred new workers were brought into the area to ensure the safe completion of the railroad south to where it will meet up with the TranzRail infrastructure. Here we see Regional Highway 10 being disrupted for construction just northwest of the EZCO Industrial development.

Business Interests in the region, including two popular resort hotel brands have expressed interest in funding a railway line into the Emerald Hill area. Locals lauded the idea but decided instead to find their own financial backers, in this case, Marlon Morono, a wealthy businessman came on board and so the first tracks were laid and a terminus station went into planning.

Situated on the Emerald's West Bank, the EZCO Gas Plant is the major employer of EHZ. The collective was formerly a few people with a bit of spare cash but it has boomed, expanding into a fully fledged collective in which the entire town's population owns the utility. Investigation into a possible reservoir in the north is underway.