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Thank you Mandelsoftt. I'm new here so I didnt have a clue. So, waiting to new NAM release to fix the problem?

Well, now that is possible to flight to Cape Barren, let me book a first class ticket: I want to visit your museum! It's good to see how your city is alive, as it is being developed: the victorian style church looks good in Cape Barren. Hotel in Hampton Beach and the new Samima Tower are good improvements in your city. Thanks for sharing!

Great cruise ship terminal! It's easy to picture all the sims getting on board of one of those ships! Is your container terminal busy? It's funny when you see those cargo trains around!

Hey it's been a long time since your last update! And here it is! Nice pictures, as always, but here's my advice: please dont let the motorways 'eat' all these beautiful green landscape!

I can't wait to visit the ARTS AND CULTURAL Museum in Cape Barrem! I've always loved Simcasso and Leornado Sim Vinci. Now that I heard that the museum also houses Claude Sim artwork, I want to buy a flight ticket to get into a plane as soon as possible towards the Nation of Cape Barren! Hmm, wait a minute! There isn't any airport there! Oh My God? What to do? How do I get there? With my own car? Nah! Too many traffic jams (even worse than my own city) and so little wide and long avenues and freeways... By train? Not a good idea... It seems that the rail network in the Nation of Cape Barren is overused and they need a some new lines... Light metro? Subway? Buses?... HAMPI: your possiblities to solve the traffic problems are simply endless! I like how fast your city is growing and developing!

It's a great idea to upload (or embed) videos instead of pics for a Cj! But I bet it means also a lot of work (to cut and edit the video and the sound) So many thanks for sharing.I agree with Silur: your City Journal is also a tutorial for learners, which is a good think. I wish you the best of luck either in youtube and here in Simtropolis. And I look forward to see some more of your work. So, I'm going to check out your youtube channel.

I can't wait for the next update! Very promising start! Awesome picture of the river... can I go to fish?

Very realistic: dirty streets, dirty parks, grey buildings, rain, Depressing???? LOL It depends on your mood... But I like the spirit of your city!

Breathtaking pictrures of NYC! Thanks for sharing, I love NYC (well as a tourist, of course)! LoL

21 - California Plaza Uploaded with ImageShack.us The last tower of the new Sim City Downtown Los Angeles to be built was the Two California Plaza Tower, built between 1990 and 1992. The tower was built to complete the California Plaza Complex (watch post nº 11) and it has been the last skyscraper ever built in Bunker Hill. Well, so far. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us California Plaza Project includes the One California tower, the Coldburn School of how to be a Hollywood star. It also houses de MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), the Water Court and Fountains, the Angel's Flight -the shortest funicular in the world- and the new skyscraper: Two California Plaza. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us The tower was designed by Arthur Erickson Architects and it is also known as Deloitte&Touche. Works began in 1990 and the tower was completed in 1992. When completed, the tower opened to public with only 30% of its space leased, in the middle of a financial crisis that was raging throughtout the city. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Two California Plaza is located in 350 South Grand Avenue, in Bunker Hill district. The tower is 228 m. (750 Ft) tall and it has 54 floors, plus 6 underground floors. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us In 1996 the Angel's Flight -the shortest funicular int he world- was totally renewed, and it opened to public like in the old times: one could go to the top of the hill -Bunker Hill- from the station in Hill Street, to the upper station in Olive Street. The renovation was succesfull, and the Sims enjoyed the Angel's Flight a lot, especially all those employees of the new tower. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us The California Plaza Project was originally planned to inlcude 3 high rise tower office buildings, intead of the two already completed. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Three California Plaza with 65 floors, was planned for a site just north of 4th St., directly across Olive St. from California Plaza's first two office highrises and was planned to house the Metropolitan Water District's permanent headquarters... Uploaded with ImageShack.us The City Planner, mister Parking Lot, said by then that Downtown had already many high rise office towers, and in the middle of the crisis wasn't a good idea the go ahead with the construction of a new skyscraper. At the same time, the Mayor of the city, insists that the tower will be built. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us

I wasn't on time to comment, so I do it now: I like your rail and metro lines. It's great to see how you put them to work, exploring all the possibilities to create a very functional rail net.... Your Northridge town looks good... r u going to redevelop all those farms into suburbs?

I love the parking house in the middle of the avenue! Also, its great to see how you put to wotk those old bats (opera house, stock market building or the baseball stadium) They look cool in your city. Finally your residencial area, with all those trees around are always good to see.

Hey Godfather! I've been watching the entire 2nd page of your CJ, and the more I watch your work the more I think that there are a lot of things to learn from all mates of Simtroplis, cinluding you: good 'making off' of your industrial area on a swampy ground, the tunnels and transportation system... But it's always great to see all those sea walls... They look very realistic. Now that your city is growing little by little is good to see how good is improving... Congratulations!

Uploaded with ImageShack.us 20 - The Vessel Uploaded with ImageShack.us Downtown Los Angeles Sim City does not have any coastline, neither a port nor a harbour. But they already had an elegant, tall and atractive lighthouse. Now, despite of not having any coastline, neither a port, nor a harbour, but having a lighthouse, they needed a vessel just in the very heart of downtown. Ah, those Simangelenos and their whims! Uploaded with ImageShack.us It's the year 1991 and it seems that something is underconstrucion in Bunker Hill. Let's have a look, a little bit closer... Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Yes, once again something is happening in Grand Avenue, but all I can say is that in one of the construction sites, they are busy building their vessel... Uploaded with ImageShack.us And their vessel turned out to be the Gas Company Tower aka The Southern CaliSIMfornia Gas Company Building. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Builded between 1988 and 1992 this magnificent building was the final part of the Library Square redevelopment, after the 1986 fires of the Central Library. Located in 555 5th Street, corner of South Grand Avenue and South Olive St, the building stands at the former Biltmore Hotel Garage Building, cortesy of the city planer, mister Parking Lot. Designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merril (a team of architects also known as S.O.M) the building is 228 m (749ft) tall and has 52 grounds. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Not the tallest in the city, but it is very recognizable for its vessel/ship shape ormamental crown... Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Now, all downtown inhabitants are unhappy and they are wondering why their mayor is able to spend millions and millions of simoleons building a very tall lighthouse and a vessel made of concrete and steel, in this part of the city where there is not any little piece of ocean, and any coast side, neither a port nor harbour, with the exception of the harbor freeway... Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Not my favourite building, but I think it looks cool in Donwtown Los Angeles Sim City! Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Awesome Costums Center! It's great to see how you put to work all your transportation system at the same time: rail and road! I loved your cargo decks for trucks, not to mention your terminal cargo for cargo ships: it rocks!

Interchanges, overpasses, and realistic highways, parks and some other decoration makes your city a very special one! Thanks for sharing!

Replies Nathanthemayor Thank you, thank you very much. I bet it would have been cool the reconstruction of such a very dry river like this one! But this is what I've got: just another river! Sim_link Muchas gracias. Thank you very much. It was hard to make it though Vivapanda Thank you Godfather, but I hope you wont ever ask me to build an entire ocean: It could be exhausting!

19 - Busy: building, canalizing, towering, digging and ruling this city! Building works in a metropolis, in every megacity around the world never stop: pipes, new drain system, underground power or telephone lines, tunnels, rail network, new skyscraper foundation... All at the same time! Awow! That's the only way to grow a city. And in Los Angeles Sim City they know that very well! Uploaded with ImageShack.us Yes. Our simangelenos know that very well, especially since their Mayor announced them the channeling of the Los Angeles River. Those are titanic, huge and colossal works for the city. Have a look here: Uploaded with ImageShack.us We can check out that the works are very advanced. But how did it all begin? This is the L.A. river, looking east, on its course through Downtown. Uploaded with ImageShack.us If we were about to move towards south, very close to Redondo junction rail yard, the river would look like this: Uploaded with ImageShack.us There is a very busy cargo rail network system on both sides of the river... Uploaded with ImageShack.us So, the first thing to do, it is to build a dam. This is a provisional dam and it will be used to control the flow of the river. The dam will also help us also to cut off the water, leaving dry the river bed... Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us Now, we drive those bulldozers and cranes on both sides of the river and on the river bed, and we can begin to create the canal/channel with those concrete walls... Uploaded with ImageShack.us Digging and digging, creating straigh lines -thanks God for the Terraform- and working on a 'dry' river, sooner or later works will be done... Uploaded with ImageShack.us But watch out your cranes and the rest of your equipment when you open the gates of the dam! It's a very expensive machinery! Uploaded with ImageShack.us Ok. We're lucky. Our Mayor is rich man and he agrees to pay new machinery for works to channeling his beloved river! How cool! And here's the final result... Uploaded with ImageShack.us Of course there are a lot of improvements to make: pipes, drains, transportation (metro, railnet, roads) structures (bridges) or power plants... Uploaded with ImageShack.us Not to mention to level the ground: a new ground reclaimed from the river, in which it will be possible to build some new factories and other commercial buildings to expand the industrial area.... Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us This is progress! This is life, as long as your simoleons budget can afford to make it happen... Uploaded with ImageShack.us Now, 7th St bridge looks like this: Uploaded with ImageShack.us 1st St bridge and Aliso St viaduct (the freeway bridge), looking north. Right side of the pic it's the east part of the river, left side corresponds to the west side. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Same view, looking south, with the César Chávez bridge in the foreground. The square building, with its orange roof is the Main Post Office Building. Uploaded with ImageShack.us L.A. river, looking east, from left to right bridges at sight are: 4th St., 6th St., 7th St., and the Santa Monica Freeway Bridge. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Same view, looking south. Interchanges of the freeways (Sta Monica, I-101 and the Golden State Fwy) are at sight. Uploaded with ImageShack.us L.A. river looking east, with the City Hall tower building in the foreground. Bridges at sight are César Chavez St, metro and railnet, Aliso Viaduct and 1s St. bridge. Uploaded with ImageShack.us So, was it worth to make it? I dont know. Sims don't seam very happy with their new industrial area, as they're already tired of smoke and pollution. I'm afraid I will have to contact the Mayor and suggest him to change his plans: what about to build, in the new land reclaimed from the river, a new residencial area instead of an industrail area? Uploaded with ImageShack.us Explanation: In real life, works to change the river flow began in 1938, shortly after the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a super huge work of extreme engineering designed by William Mulholland. The Los Angeles River was the primary water source for the Los Angeles basin, but much of its channel had extremely low discharge except during the winter rains. Unpredictable and devastating floods continued to plague it well into the 1930s. The most notable one being the catastrophic 1938 flood that precipitated the recall of Los Angeles then-mayor Frank L Shaw, leading to calls for flood control measures. The Army Corps of Engineers duly began an ambitious project of completely encasing the river's bed and banks in concrete, with only a trickle of water usually flowing down its middle. Ever since, it has served primarily as a flood control channel, fed by storm drains. Today, this intermittent river flows for most of its 51 miles (82 km) through a narrow concrete channel. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Sources: LAPL (Los Angeles Public Library) Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia....s_Angeles_River The L.A. river as seen today, with the 6th St bridge in the foreground: Uploaded with ImageShack.us

My congratulations to everyone! Now, let's work!

REPLIES. Sim_link I guess you meant the US Bank Tower/Library Tower. The Bat was made by Rickk, and he did a great job. And once again fiction goes any further than reality because, in my opinion, the tower -though its height- does not silhoulette or stand out very good among the other buildings. Is it a problem of textures? Is it because the tower is not enought tall? It doesn't matter. In real life you only notice that the Library Tower is there only at nights because of its crown. During the day seems unnoticed maybe because of the materials of its white facade. White colour does not catch your eye, and your sight goes first towards the others towers, like for instance, to the Aon Center Tower (dark coloured) the Wells Fargo (some kind of brown coloured) or the California Plazas. Not my favourite building in LA, neither in Sim City! Nathanthemayor Thank you very much. You're very kind. I guess that if If I was about to show you guys my region you'll probably will think that it's very boring to see: except this part of Downtown I'm working in, there's nothing else built. I have to create mountains and modify the river. When it's done, I will show you soon! City_master Thank you. But above all, I'm enjoying this much... But the only L.A. good to see, it's the one they show us in the movies! Rewright LoL! I do really believe that all policians are always telling us stories! And my mayor does too! Many thanks in deed for your comment! Vivapanda Since you were the first one to comment this crazyness I look on you as my 'godfather' here in Simtropolis. Your comments encourage me to go on and get over with this as soon as possible. Thank you very much for your words. But this time I guess I did a huge mess with all the story about the river... LoL! Silly me! So, now I guess I should show you all this mess about the river and another lesson I've learned well: the terraform tool works perfectly, and your only goal might be, not to finish the work, but to be PATIENCE! I didn't take any picture while I was working in the river of my city. Any picture, because I was about to use up my patience, so I didn't feel like taking pics... But I still have some of my trials... Maybe I could show you a few and we will pretend that they're the good ones and we won't tell to anybody...

Seania... Quebec? LoL! If you were thinking of Quebec... Je vous souhaite bonne chance! If not... Good start... I'd like to see how you develop your metropolis!!!