Infrastructurist

"In episode #12, We build a bit of everything in order to get back into the grove of things - after a pretty long absence from the game! In detail, we fill up the remaining empty areas just west of Downtown Crescent, with different commercial establishments, a few offices, a public housing project offering luxurious living and broken aircons. We also embark on a bit of road detailing! Overall a very 'relaxed' and somewhat eventless episode, but hope you guys enjoy it nonetheless :o)"

"In episode #11, implementation of a bus system moves much closer, as we create a huge expansion of the city across the main river, right across from Downtown Crescent. A mixed area with industry, suburbs, old commercial buildings, empty lots, a baseball stadium and a mall. There's lots of possibilities in this area, but how to exploit them properly? Infrastructure wise, we kick off with a few additional highway ramps, to connect the interstate system with this side of the river, besides the main bridge. The editing / jumping around in shots might be a little erratic. This long episode was recorded during several smaller stints due to time restraints at the moment. Hope you all enjoy nonetheless!"

"we kick off some true suburbian living by placing down Crescent's first mall, built back in the 1960's as an enclosed version with a single main anchor store. Lying north of Downtown, in the first layers of middle-class suburbs, Skyland Mall has managed to stay afloat despite a few things working against it; it is enclosed, which quickly lost popularity, and it is old, being located not far from deprecated low-income suburbs. Being close to closing down in the early 2000's, it has since had an interior renovation and slowly regained traction. We also build a very early suburban office park, which sprung up during the 1970's, offering an office refuge from the surely deteriorating conditions in Downtown." Hope you guys enjoy

"In episode #9, we move west of Downtown, building some low-density neighbourhoods while mainly focusing on creating realistic looking commercial establishments along the Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue. These developments are themselves rather small, but their footprint is big because of the extensive parking lots attached to them. A pretty typical scenery in many US cities. We also build a manufacturing business, some subsidized apartments and a school."

"In episode #8, a major Downtown lot owned by the city is bought by the Viridian Family, and the construction of the new branch of the Viridian Business and Technology Institute commences. Instead of merely placing the finished product, I opted for creating a large construction site, as I want to become better at making those. Good fun, but challenging and I am sure it is riddled with mistakes and dangerous decisions! Anyway, after that we move our attention to a large empty area east of Downtown, and fill it in with a low-income neighbourhood including some god awful public housing."

"Had a number of requests in the last few episodes of a tour/general overview of Crescent, as our city is expanding quite fast! So, here's a 10 minute uninterrupted city tour of every corner of Downtown as well as the suburbs we have currently built. Thus, we inspect industrial, residential, commercial, offices, railways and small freight-yards (Huge freight yards will come!), plenty of parking lots and trees."

I am working on this - Does it count?

I added some high-quality pictures mostly from the area I just built here; https://infrastructurist.weebly.com/

"In episode #7, we conduct a large scale suburban expansion of Crescent, building three suburbs stretching north and northeast from Downtown, and marking the transition from inner-city suburbs. We build a kindergarten, an elementary school, a baptist church and a big mid-rise residential apartment complex with plentiful parking lots. Making sure roads align on each side of the highway/interstate to represent the divide said highways created upon being constructed during the late 1960's and early 1970's."

We got issues in Crescent! Looting, small-scale rioting and the escalation of seemingly random violence in River East threatens to dismay potential investors from proposing new developments in Downtown! The Crescent Police Department have hinted at employing harsher measures; how does the city council react? You can get all the details at my most recent post on my blog!; https://infrastructurist.weebly.com/

Imgur album for you fellas https://imgur.com/a/8SXZq

"In episode #13, we build a big convention center situated near a modern office cluster which houses the tallest skyscraper in Amatsukaido, which at 249 meters is the 6th tallest in Japan. Near the convention center is also a large planned residential high-density district which is mixed-income, housing low, middle and high-income inhabitants in anything from bland looking mid-rises to a luxury skyscraper. Last but not least, we create a whole new line of the suspended monorail network, connecting the convention district with the "center" of the city in Hayachiru, the first area we built back in episode 1." "For the next project (to run alongside The American Dream, so I can switch it up), I haven't really decided on anything yet, but I think I would like to use all of the wonderful haussmann Paris stuff that is available on the workshop. I also would like to have complex infrastructure networks just like in project Japan. It's fun and challenging to work with. So I'm thinking lots of rail, trams, maybe even bus rapid transit system mixed in etc. Who knows - You are of course all free to suggest and discuss :-) PS: I have been getting questions if this is the last time I'm doing a Japanese series, and the answer is very likely no. Since I started this, the workshop has slowly but surely begun to really pick up and a host of new roads, buildings etc has been released and continue to be released. So there is a good chance i'll attempt to create another Japanese themed city in the future, just much better, of course :o) Have a wonderful day everyone!"

"A short cinematic of a first person drive along one of the elevated expressways that snake their way through the skyscraper-heavy Japanese themed city Amatsukaido, built in my PROJECT JAPAN series. Been a long time since I've done a video like this, but by requests from months ago I decided to try it. Was a pain to record as this save has become very wonky/unstable :-D This drive cut through some of the central areas of the city, before crossing a river and leaving the expressway for the regular road network."

"In episode #6, We don't care too much about realism but just want some good ol' highway interchange spaghetti bolognese. We convert the big 3-way Interstate interchange into a 4-way one with a web of off and on ramps, allowing easy access to Downtown Crescent and it's surrounding inner-city suburbs , industrial areas and districts. We finish it up with a small neighbourhood. Hope you enjoy!"

"In episode #5, we finish up Downtown Crescent by completing the most western reach of the area. The western part of Downtown is a mixed bag of industry, mainly warehouse based manufacturing with former freight rail traffic, a historic row-house neighbourhood as well as a large park featuring a lake, big old trees and a public stage/amphitheater which was used extensively during the civil rights movement. We also add some very early public housing, through the notorious towers of Waterfront Court - famous for it's hiphop artists and culture."