Buffalonian1

Other- Buffalo. Not only is it my hometown but it has a large variety of architecture, and many old style skyscrapers that are lucky to have endured the past years, which cannot be found in many other cities. It is also home to many friendly people. just stay away from the east side (Some pics look wacky cuz they were refitted) Its placed in a good location too- By the way, those pictures of Montreal are great, maybe I'l visit one day.

I've been to Toronto a few times, ate at CN tower, and I'd have to say that this looks like a good replica! I also remember alot of the names of those motorways. I have a suggestion though- those four black skyscrapers are wrecking your skyline. Good job overall though.

You are a master at terraforming! Great job, although your city area can use a few more trees. It is also sort of squared off where it ends and turns into wilderness, maybe give it some natural curves?

align=baseline> More History Chapter 2 Buffalo became an official city in 1832. Buffalo was a city of over 10,000 inhabitants. By 1835 Buffalo would eclipse 15,000 citizens and in 1840 there were roofs over 18,000 people. The new city needed a new charter, and the new charter allowed the city to tax the citizens $8,000 per year. This money was to be used for municipal improvements and maintenance. These included the salaries of the city officials, street lighting, maintenance and bridgework and other expenses. The new Common Council appointed the city's richest citizen, Dr. Ebenezer Johnson, as the City of Buffalo's first mayor. While Mayor Johnson no longer practiced medicine and had not for some time, ironicly immediately after he was appointed Mayor the city was struck by a horrible epidemic of cholera. The practice of medicine was far from advanced in those days and the Mayor could do little except appoint a board of health to build a simple hospital in which the ill could shake off the painful truth. Once winter started the city got back down to business and the epidemic was deteriorating, Buffalo's glory, water borne trade was showing no signs of slowing down. Both canal traffic and lake traffic continued to increase greatly despite the national economic crisis of 1837. Buffalo Harbor countinued to flourish. In 1833 a lighthouse was built, and a ferry was opened that took passengers to and from chicago. In 1836 a new dry dock and marine railway appeared. A huge storm in November of 1837 had killed many people, turned many wharves into ruins and tossed ships onto the city streets. This was a statement from nature- your city is growing and you need a seawall! In 1838 the city, with federal aid, began construction of a much needed sea wall. Throughout the era the facilities of a first class port were continually added to and improved. With the growth came enterprises. A commercial bank opened in 1834, and yet another one in '36, and many new railways were constructed. Eagle Street Theatre was opened in 1836, which was loved for its elegance. With all this growth education became important. In 1839 New York State's first public school opened in Buffalo. Most of the architecture in the 1830's was courtesy of Benjamin Rathburn. He was a master builder responsible for the construction of a large portion of the city's buildings in the period from 1830 to 1840. The Erie canal was still in it's prime, and canal street which ran parallel to the canal was known for its many saloons colorful residents. Holland Land Company, the original owners of Western New York, finished its business here. Spending approximately $600,000, they wound up with a profit of about $1.4 million. AddisonWesley- I think it is nicknamed that because it is the 2nd largest city in the state, the largest city being NYC.

It would be nice if it was possible to make a mod that lowers the required bridge height that allows ferries to cross under. It's really frustrating. Thanks.

Hey! I'm Dan, from you guessed it, Buffalo, NY! I am currently a student at Lake shore senior high, but I plan on becoming a politician in the local area or just sell my artwork for money.

Whoops, I was thinking of the Rand. The Rand, Ralph, Rath, way too confusing! I agree about the name Ralph wilson stadium. Should have let the place be a it was. Anything is better then Dunn tire park though, lol.

I simply took a map and divided it into squares according to the config, and everything else is measured accordingly. I knew a large map is approximatley 2.6 miles by 2.6 miles or something like that, so I converted that to inches and voila. A few times I was rushing and had to start over, I want to start zoning so badly! Also this time I have managed to get the NY-5 and I-190 intersection made, although it has an extra onramp, which could not be avoided. I also managed to make the railroad that runs through downtown to fit and it its also sunken so streets can pass over it. Unfortunatley I think I might have to trash it once I try to fit pearl st, etc in. A shame I can't make it run underneath the I-190.

Don't know much about victorian architecture, but i think there are alot of churches around my local area built in that style, as well as a gothic style, and there is alot of industrial architecture around here too, and I mean alot! It's an interesting style for sure, and spices up cities. (most of the time) I haven't been to the UK but I know alot of buildings around me are based on those styles. Wallasey, the county office here in Buffalo looks almost exactly like that picture of that bolton town hall. just more pointy, lol: https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//RIMG7079.jpg width=800 align=baseline>

Looks great! I especially like that europeon/capital-like city from the start. I also like how realistic that airport looks, its great! Also loving that park, and those memorial areas. I do have some negative opinions to give you as well as the positive, have to keep it balanced! Your downtown seems jam packed with skyscrapers, and too many of them. I think it would look nicer and more realistic if you demolished a few, and tryed to keep the taller structures in the center of the financial district, and then surround that area with some mid rises, and then slowly lower the heights as you move outward from downtown. The sudden change from high rise to 2 story tall structures is an eyesore. Also there are areas where there will be up to 4-5 of the same skyscraper in the same area, which isn't very pleasant looking. Try to diversify it, and work on city spread.

A promising project, good luck with making the entire skyline. Portsmouth looks like an interesting city. Wish I had the BAT experience that you have. So far all the buildings look great, can't say many negative things about them, but let me think a while and I'm sure I can come up with something Don't take offense to that though, in my opinion negative feedback is the best feedback.

Date: 8/3/2005 10:33:47 PM Author: sargeantcm So the extents of your region go a bit farther than I expected.  Does this mean I now need to model the Ralph?!?!  Not that it would be too complicated, I practically live across the street from it.  In fact I could model my apartment complex as well! Nice work so far, it'll be nice to see it once you start building it up!  As for comments, check out State Route 425 (Twin City Hwy) from I-290 north into Tonawanda.  I've never seen it myself, but I believe it may be a 'highway' as well.  You'll probably have to model the all of our big cloverleafs -  I-90 & Walden, I-90 & Ridge, and US-219 & Mile Strip (and possibly NY-400 & Transit and I-290 & Millersport) as highway-highway cloverleafs as well.  I'll also be interested to see how you handle all the railroad corridors, in particular Broadway as it goes through Cheektowaga with the grade separations there.  Other 'interchanges' include Harlem @ Indian Church, and Sheridan @ Transit. So many strange interchanges here, too bad SC4 will never have them all!  I should get back to one of the Y-splits I was doing a while back so you could properly model the I-90 & US-219 interchange, although it would still be missing the C-D lanes. -Chris The ralph would be great! But what is it without the tishman building? I would love to live downtown, but I am too young to plan on moving out of where I live yet, once I graduate (yep, I am still in high school) I plan on going to a Buffalo college though, possibly UB. I have been selling artwork though and have made some good money, well what I consider good, and eventually I will have enough to move somewhere downtown, where I can paint pictures of the skyline I've always wanted to live there. Eventually I hope on moving into one of those lakefront codos (years to come, many many years, lol) once (if) I get enough money. Also when you are naming highways try to make it as simple as possible, I understand you work with stuff like that as a career, I do not so I don't know as much about it as you. It's probably hard to make it seem any more simple, but still...lol. I'm sure if I look at a map I could find the highway you are talking about though, but I want to preserve the similar look of the transportation map with the real-life map. NY-5 continues to have 6 lanes quite a bit farther south then it is labeled on the map but I wanted it to look nice...lol. Also the downtown area will be altered. I must push it over a few degrees in order to properly fit all the BATs in, because in real life it is slightly slanted. This is a problem I am working on because it distorts the way I was planing on placing the Kensington. This will lengthen the amount of time taken until the next update , hopefully it will look right in the end.

Update 8/3/05 I finished the highways much earlier then expected. I still need to extend the Kensington/Reverend Martin etc expressway, and intersections are under construction, but other then that it is pretty much complete. Enjoy! Real world map- http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/4231/mapcomparison3tq.jpg align=baseline> My city map- http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/9235/buffalohighwayscomplete2ip.jpg align=baseline> Larger detailed city map can be found here - http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/3962/buffalohighwaycompletelarge6td.jpg Here is a strange bug I encountered during my work- align=baseline> He's got the whole world in his hands!

I love how you take a simple transit system and make it seem so interesting, and to add that it's usually just involved in rural or suburban enviornments! Who would've thought about including a rugged bumpy road as a list of things to fix? I also like the region image you made. Don't know if you still work on your Cjs but I would like to see an update soon. -Dan

Interesting, I'm not familiar much with earlier versions of Sim city (except classic lol) but I would like to see how that airport turns out. Good job

I've always loved how maticulate you are with your transportation network. Good job

Update 7/31/05 As promised, here is the next update! Hope you like it, and enjoy! -Region Progress Needs some tweaking, but it is 98% complete. If you would like to view my region shots, click on the following links and then click on the scaled down image. I did not post pictures because they are so large. align=baseline> http://img68.imageshack.us/my.php?image=buffaloimg789gi.jpg

Traffic_Jam- Alot more to come, and when I say alot I mean alot. I will be using a mix of pictures from my sim city and the real city. rfaustin- I have been playing with the idea of building the city as it developes, but don't be suprised if it doesn't turn out that way. I don't have enough references and knowledge of it's history to do such a thing, although I do wish I knew more about it. It is a good idea. As for your second question, I have, and I have many map sources at my disposal, although I am having trouble thinking of where to label stuff, which is why I could not post my region pictures yet. I am using the census count thing. If I had more late 18th to early 19th century sources then I might be able to layout the city as it grows, although finding maps of the suburbs would be hard to do. You would be suprised how little the layout has changed, which I guess is a good thing. Deathtoall, jacqulina, chocolatemax285- Thanks for stopping by, I'm happy you like it. Hope to see you guys here agian! utora- Many thanks goes to sargeantcm for that. You should check out the thread Operation Buffalo Wing if you haven't already.

100% hand made map, most of the detail is in the water, not elevation. Buffalo sits on a mostly flat area so it made it easy for me. Thanks for the comments guys, glad you like it.