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TheMurderousCricket posted a City Journal entry in SimCity: Tribalism
I would like to make two announcements before today's entry... First of all, I would like to mention that the last vote to determine a new ground texture for New Udanani resulted in a rare draw! "HBS Californian Terrain" and the "VIP Terrain Mod" received the same number of votes! After checking both mods in my region, I decided to resolve the draw in favor of "VIP Terrain Mod". The thing is, "HBS Californian Terrain" is one of the few bright terrain textures... After I tested it, it became clear that it is glaringly contrastive with the dark grass and shrub MMPs that I use en masse across New Udanani. This means that the color and brightness balance was actually quite poor with this terrain applied and the existing vegetation on top of it... I hope that those who voted for this terrain option will forgive me. The rationale is entirely aesthetic and I am grateful for your participation in shaping this CJ, regardless of a poll's results! Now comes the time to choose rock textures for the region, so I hope to again see your participation in another voting process! The second announcement now. As you can undoubtedly see, today's episode is somewhat longer than most - four pages of text rather than the regular 2-3 that I usually write. This is because today's episode includes some historical and cultural details which, I hope, add some additional, interesting "depth" to this journal. However, I do understand that not everybody likes to read. The question then is - if I prepare more of such detailed entries, would you be happy to see them here? Or should I form a separate CJ, specifically dedicated for the cultural and historical information on New Udanani? That's it for the announcements (and questions). Now, enjoy the next entry! Today, you will have a chance to review a fairly large project that resulted from your votes provided in this episode. Aupthilagic Peninsula has become a historical landmark with several notable features. I cordially invite you for a guided tour around this area. Altruist tribe early beginnings The earliest mention of the Altruist tribe comes from 10th century chronicles and archeological evidence from this period. The tribe occupied the Central and Northern parts of Aupthilagic Peninsula and predominantly lived in small, isolated villages scattered all over the forests. The Altruists created communities that likely didn't even surpass 50 citizens at a time. Life in the woods was simple and sometimes lacked the privileges that modern people take for granted. The situation changed with the rise of the Virbolli family. This clan was the most educated group in the tribe and even had some luck in trade with Arab Sicily and the coastal areas of the Bulgarian Empire making them a wealthy and important group among the Altruists. The Virbolli have also been good, kind-hearted people who never refused to help others. Seeing the plight of their brethren and their frugal life in the woods, they drafted a concept for the first, large-scale settlement to which the Altruist population could move. This way, in 1219 A.D., Vazarki Castle was built, and the Virbolli entail was formed. The castle was constructed entirely from the family's own funds which probably cemented the Altruists' selfless and generous life philosophy. The population was delighted with the concept and happily settled in and around the new structure. However, there were several problems with the castle that became apparent in the long run. First of all, in the defensive terms Vazarki Castle was very badly designed. It had no moat and some of its windows were only five meters above the ground, making it easy to force one's way inside. Moreover, the varying height of defensive towers arranged on a square plan resulted in a lot of visual "dead zones" for the lower towers. This of course turned potential defense and field bombardment from these towers into a fairly challenging feat. Ironically, the castle's high desirability was also the source of overcrowding - a problem which started to become more and more serious with the influx of new "citizens". In the first half of the 14th century, the conditions in the castle became so bad that a serious plague outbreak occurred, killing-off about 2/3 of the people who lived in it and nearly wiping out the members of the Virbolli family... Barone founded When the epidemic subsided, some of the plague survivors decided to return to the woods and resume their forest lives. The Vazarki Castle became largely abandoned as a result. The situation changed for the better only after the entail was inherited in 1426 by Lagro Virbolli, The Seventh Duke of Virbolli Entail. (Coat of arms created with CoaMaker ) Just like his predecessors, the Duke was a highly educated individual who spent most of his youth in foreign universities including University of Padua, La Sapienza and Jagiellonian University. Moreover, Lagro befriended several European politicians and constructors. These acquaintances and knowledge were vital to his later decision that the Altruists needed a proper city to live in, in order to thrive. Lagro Virbolli's dream materialized in 1431 when the construction of Barone began - a large, spacious, fortified town that would become a core of the Altruist culture and economy. The city was named after Filippo Barone - one of the Duke's university friends from Italy. The first stage of construction finished in 1441 when the main outline of fortifications was completed and the first homes, market and the city hall were built. Analysis of Barone Barone is an interesting town from the architectural and urban point of view due to the period it was built in - a transition epoch between medieval times and full-bloomed renaissance. Many of the town's original buildings were built according to the old 13th and 14th century rules but they were influenced by fresh ideas coming from great constructors and planners from Italy, Low Countries and Poland. As the city developed further, this mixture of styles became evident and eventually led to a rise of the so-called "Udananian Reneissance". Many buildings and features in this style survive to this day. The original marketplace enhanced with some green areas (rather then fully paved as in many European cities) the nearby city hall and some of the tenements are good examples of this unique building fashion. As you can clearly see, the marketplace has retained its original function and is a popular shopping spot for the local, modern population of Mindfulness. A keen eye will also notice specific surroundings that the town has. Namely, large swathes of colorful fields surrounding Barone. These, are tulip farms which were established by Duke Virbolli as a gift to his favorite niece - a gifted florist and an avid lover of nature. The farms still use traditional techniques to grow flowers and the fields (which are 560 years old...) are one of the UNESCO world heritage sites since 1991, along with the town itself... Obviously a spacious, well-protected town that Barone has become, convinced many Altruists to again give the town life a chance. This time, the project proved to be a complete success and gave the tribe open doors to a comfortable future. But the town would not last long if it had no trade and traffic going through it. This is where Lagro Virbolli's political connections became particularly important as he was able to convince several prominent merchants and European politicians to do business with his town. The establishment of a trade port East of Barone was the next logical step. In order to service merchant vessels and handle the trade goods, a harbor was established on the shore of the Gulf of Brinteesel in 1449. The port survives to this day and is open to visitors together with the unique Museum of Marine Trade. Barone's port may look small for today's standards but it was very well organized and teeming with life back in the days. It consists of two distinct parts. The Southern portion of the port contained shipwright workshops and facilities used to unload and process imported goods... ...while the Northern part was used to load the ships with the goods produced by the Altruists. This part of the port has a distinct layout as it consists of several rows of narrow alleys which are flanked by merchant and artisan workshops. This way, all visitors leaving Barone were encouraged to make "last minute" purchases. In fact, it was impossible to reach the docks without passing through one of these alleys! Fortifications of Barone Despite the peace-loving attitude of the Altruists, the tribe has acknowledged the fact that the world is a tumultuous place and they need to protect themselves from possible dangers coming from external powers. This is why apart from being a cozy place to live in, Barone became a defensible settlement as well. Many of the problems identified in the Vazarki Castle were addressed in Barone, making the city a much safer place to live... First of all, Barone is surrounded by a magnificent semi-natural moat. It was built upon already existing marshlands which were artificially expanded. The inner part of the moat was reinforced by brick too. Using natural wetlands to build the town's first line of defense was the idea of Lagro Virbolli's wife - Tajra Chasilli, Her Ladyship of the Virbolli Entail. Barone walls, considered to be the second line of defense, are another interesting feature of the Altruist town. The walls were built on a plan of two overlapping rectangles with the town's gates being located in the spots where the rectangle sides meet. This way, it was much easier for the defenders to destroy enemies attempting to force their way into the city through the main entrance, giving the town's military an excellent opportunity to develop crossfire against attackers. The walls surrounding the town have a standardized height as well, which eliminates the problem of one defense tower obscuring the view to another. In the early 16th century, however, the tribe decided that existing fortifications, essentially just straight walls, could use a modernization. This was the moment when the 15th century defensive walls received a renaissance facelift that largely improved the town's safety against new threats. If you take a look at Eastern and Southern city walls, you will notice a distinct feature, typical to renaissance fortifications. These are the so-called "piattaforma" - special defensive constructions that derive from the Italian school of defensive building. Piattaformas allowed better coverage during frontal attacks against the city walls, making it possible for the defenders to fire cannons at enemy troops even when they already chipped at the city walls. Another example of renaissance defensive solution, this time typical to French fortifications, is the so-called "rotonde" - a small, rounded fort connected to the city walls and going out into the main fortress' foregrounds. The rotonde offered an insane, almost 360-degree firing range against attacking armies. In this respect, rotonde was used to "soften up" hostile units long before they could even creep up to the town, or to fire towards the units that somehow managed to advance up to the city walls. The second tactic was brutally effective as it created an unbearable barrage of front-and-rear fire from the defenders that few hostile units could withstand. The fortified route leading onto rotonde and the adjacent walls were partially destroyed during Barone's siege by Russian Empire in the 19th century - the only time Barone was successfully captured. The Altruist city has been under Russian siege during Russo-Persian War in which the tribe sided with the Persians. Luckily though, after the Russians captured the city, the Altruists were able to quickly mount a successful counterattack and expel Russian forces just eight days after the city fell in their hands. Unfortunately, these events ruined the town's walls and buildings that laid in the path of the Russian advance. There is currently much debate among historians and architects whether this portion of town should be rebuild or rather left this way as a historical landmark. Conclusion The Virbolli entail consisting of Barone, Vazarki Castle and the trading port are undoubtedly one of the many pearls of Udananian civilization and an outstanding example of the Altruist economic and technical thought. Despite the centuries gone by, Aupthilagic Peninsula, continues to amaze and inspire numerous historians, researchers and tourists, offering them a valuable insight in the Eastern Udananian culture. I hope that today's update was an interesting experience for you as well. Have a nice day and see you next time! I shall leave you with several impressions of Mindfulness - the modern town which was built around the old Altruist capital of Barone. And before you go, please have a look at the rock textures that are under vote today! Comment replies: @TogaMasterJohn - Things like this happen on holiday bliss. If it makes you feel better, this entry got delayed as well. Thanks for the nice words. Yup, details are my fuel!- 3 Comments
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Zürich, herz der Welt ! At least the financiel heart of Switserland, the largest city of the country. Finaly I can show you my imprsion of this city in the last city yournal of this Euro region series. There still some area´s to explore , but these will follow when I like to do so ! We start with a fly by tour of the city. Zürich and the Züricher See and surrounding mountainious area ! Disctict 1 Zürich financial and commercial heart like Manhattan in Newyork distinctive ! ,Zürich Hauphtbahnhof ! Oerlikon, eastern town area where close by airportZürich Klöten is located just north ! Kreis 5 the histrical industriaol area of Zürich ! Zürich Altstadt and the mountanious University area ! Old Botanic gardens in the disctrict 1 area ! Some picture of the surrounding moalpine area of Zürich ! Out of town the nwe botianicl gardens in district 8 ! Zürich last in the Anno Europe euro region. Lot´s of work tro complete. Time and patience rising tthrough this series+. 4 Gb patch helped to make life more easier. Mayon Province in a similair stage, i am looking forward to for some new worlds to explore ! Hope you enjoyed this city yournal and see you back next time !
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The American Airlines Arena (AAA) is a sports and entertainment arena located in Downtown Miami, Florida along Biscayne Bay. It was constructed beginning in 1998 as a replacement for the Miami Arena and designed by the architecture firms Arquitectonica and 360 Architecture. The Arena is home to the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. (Wikipedia, 2019) The BAT was a request from PHBSD, so if you would like to see any buildings in SimCity 4 just send me a request and if I'm inspired I just might.. There is a small glitch that occurred during the render at the front ramp. I didn't manage to get rid of it. It's small though so I'm uploading it anyways The .zip file contains a landmark lot with no jobs and a ploppable lot with Cs$$ 9600 jobs in your landmarks menu. Unfortunately there is no night lighting like all my other uploads If you are missing any dependencies just notify me. Enjoy!- 13 Comments
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Praha - vývoj času ! Development through time, this is the last chapter in the visit to Praha. Last city vienna gave lots of oppertunities to stretch it longer. Praha long shelved in the refrigerator now is about completed, realizing these cities all square inch maybe covered but this city showed some quit challenging exercies of terra- forming; furthur progres would not do it any justice ! ANNO Europe CJ will return in october, switch will be made to Mayon Province CJ next month ! This CJ we cover the last part of Praha ! Kobylisy- Dolna Chabry north of the city and continue our way to the west bank with Letny and the last Mala Strana with the medieval town ! Kobylisy is on the prague subwayline C north of the second bend and houses at Kuchyfrica the university ! Kuchyfrica - Prague Modern University ! Dolin Chabry virtualy for this city houses the Airport, Hotels and Convention center area ! Now we cross the river to the west bank to Letny with the Spartak Prague Football ground ! Letny is a long part of a long highly leveled town wich stretches west ! Prague subwayline A covers much of the upper part of the boulevard west ! Mala Strana or the old medieval heart of prague with the castle and old town ! Old town ! Prahou rozloučenou - prague goodbye ! Pleasant town to create; top 5, real best city in this series, hard to imagine as every city got it´s perculier points wich up to now gave every city a little bit of it´s own identity. Weight of euro plugins now certainly making a ultra modern city just about imposible ! Hope you enjoyed this CJ and see you back next time !
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Praha - prague do města ! Prague into the city. Sorting out sets as well music and literal influence my work like Dvorak and Kafka wich had their residence hear ! Today we cover some outside neighbourhoods of the south of the city and work our way into the right river side center of town ! Nove Vrsovice with the Eden Arena stadium of Slavia Prague foorball club ! Rail stable yards ! Dvorce south west of the center with some business highrise development ! Podoli shopping and medical center ! Praha city center right river side ! National Theatre on the left ! Praha central square ! Rudolfinum music theatre where the Czech Philarmony and other play ! Lot of churches and synagoge reminder of the jewish community wich did live there once ! That´s about what I cover this month, next we will have a last look at the left side of the river with the Praha, called castle mountain and the rest of the city ! Hope you enjoyed this CJ and see you back next time !
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Vienna, Donau Stadt & Little Slovakia ! Today we finish our tour of Vienna ! Contrast to the city of Vienna, Donau Stadt is rather more suburban. Little twist some of the slovakia set and coming city is highlited in this CJ. Donau Stadt lays on a closed side stretch of the Donau, conscists of Bruckhaufen, Kaisermuhlen, Floridsdorf and Donau Stadt ! We start at the otherside of the river where we left last time, working our way through north to Bruckhaufen and then go sout via Floridsdorf and Donau stadt ! Kaiser Muhlen, with the kaiserwasser ! International Atomic Agency ! Donau Turm and park ! background the town part of Bruckhaufen ! Vienna, new University and the Hi-Tech area ! Floridsdorf ! Donau Stadt ! Airport area and detail ! Real Vienna Airport is at the other side of the Donau, some mile downstream so Donau Stadt aren´t subject to the noise breaking aircraft ! As you see the mostly low Slovakian buildings this is a teaser what to come ! Slovakia, bratislava is just some miles east, bratislava is out of the map but we will visit Devin wich is at the joining of the border river Morava with the Donau ! Donau Stadt got a excelent rail connection to Slovakia and Brno via the virtual Ganserndorf ! Last we cross the border to Devin, Slovakia ! Hrad Devin or Devin Castle on the right ! A Memorial at the river point marks the midle of Europe ! That officialy conclude´s the tour ! Special for this city there are three nightshots around the central city and one in Leopold Stadt ! Last pictures of Vienna, a city aswell loved to create ! Next CJ we will visit the last City before the summer break, wich will be Praha or prague. This was for sometime on my list of to be created cities, yet until now the available custome material wasn´t really sufficient to create such a detailed town ! Hope you enjoyed this CJ, and see you back next time !
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Hi there, I'm having a problem getting hotels to spawn; I'm building a gambling/culture city that is going pretty well, at the moment the city have 5 casinos (1 luxury hotel full with $$$ gambling addons, 2 sleek and 2 cheap with full $ and $$ gambling addons), all the 3 possible landmarks (Edificio Copan, Empire State Building and Sydney Opera House) and the Pro Stadium; the city have all forms of public transportation except streetcars (3 ferry and boat terminal, one train station and 1 municipal airport with 4 passengers addons and 4 runways); the city have a draw of 65k/85k with more then 1k tourist/h and it's going decently (1kk$/day profit) but I'd like to get some hotels. The problem is that no matter what I do they somehow refuse to spawn; I tried running the Sydney and Pro Stadium events everyday for quite some time, bulldozing some medium density commercial from all wealth class every day and the city is not at the beginning of year 6 but not a single hotel spawned; I could plop them with the plop mod but before doing that I'd like to get some hotels to spawn naturally. Is there anything that prevent hotels from spawning while playing offline? Am I doing something wrong or am I being just incredibly unlucky? Thanks in advance for helping, Paraffine
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I came across this interesting article about a proposal in Germany to help with integration for the new arrivals and with Germany as a whole. The phrase "parallel societies" was quite striking to me because it would seem like a mild form of cultural segregation: if there are separate cultural identities and they can't be diluted as part of a whole... Then what does that leave? Socially acceptable segregation? Or sub-cultures fiercely protective of their identity that "integration" is seen as a threat to their identity? Or the majority or the right-wing feel threatened by sub-cultures and "parallel societies" which have different values to the countries main values? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-19/we-dont-wear-burkas-germany-unveils-cultural-integration-initiative-immigrants So this is a thread about multiculturalism, "Core Culture" (common values within a country and its citzenry) and segregation. Has multiculturalism made things more harmonious and peaceful between the majority and the minorities? Between the non-religious and the religious? Or has it inadvertantly caused things to move back culturally and accidently create segregation? This seems like a pertinent issue today!
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Muenchen Stern in der Welt ! Muenchen a international city, present on all different levels. This CJ we cover the busines and sport section. The city up to last episode mostly developed on the west side of the Isar. Development boosted and the eastern side got it´s own city scape on the map ! We start at the Maximilanium a building errected for gifted students later used as the Bayerisch Landestag or local state parliament. Ornimental, quit close in shape the Detroit Press Building, restriction road layout is quit different. North south the Maximilianum Anlage. Maxemilian Anlage ! Gasteig is the mayor cultural center for fine music ! Tjibaou Cultue center, quit excotic real much more concrete some comparison perhaps. Mayor layout of the so called Steinhausen area east of the Isar ! Below we see the buseness area and silicon valley of Muenchen ! Lot of large companies like Siemens, BMW and the Europeische Octrooi Amt have there seat in this city. This business activities serve a lot of people. Trains, Metro, Strassebahn bus specialy rail traffic in these pictures ! Last we move on to the sport section ! Muenchen will with regret always remembered with the 1972 mascered. Today seems unfortunaly much like yesterday in respect ! Olympic Campus in real is much larger. Fitting here the Shenzhen Universiade lots. Left corner small Nyphenburg and next ! Bayern´s numer one car manufacturer, the museum and the Welt ! Last we finish with the Star of the south what is actualy the title of this famous football club, der recordmeister, Bayern Muenchen ! Still got some room left for the Allianze Arena, actualy located quit more distant from the town center That concludes this city for now. Next time we will visit a city with a more traditional feeling ! Hope you enjoyed this CJ and see you back next time !
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Escape From Martin Falls : Zinfandel revisited
tariely posted a City Journal entry in P.R. Crastina's Travels (SC4)
Around her third week in Martin Falls, that long ago summer, P. R. began to feel antsy. She soon understood what she was going through : it was the Green Blues Attack. Too much green ! Too much peace & quiet ! So, as she had done while in Kathy Vale, she escaped again to The Big City, Zinfandel. But this time she decided to do the Kultur thing -- no more follies at the amusement park. Let's go highbrow, she thought. Museums, art galleries, theatre (the live kind, not the movies...) and music : first night, the Opera -- Cosi FanTutte. Then, realizing the Science Museum blue dome was just on the other side of the track with its reclaimed banks -- parks and bike paths--, she went there the morning after. Then it was the Oceanographic Museum --with a little detour by the Aquarium. In the afternoon, a movie theatre beckoned, but P. R. resisted virtuously and went instead to the Museum of Arts & Crafts (they take their arts & crafts very seriously in Zinfandel, she thought : what grand building !) Then not far, there were the City Archives, with a big “Zinfandel through the Ages” exposition .P. R. is a sucker for old engravings and nostalgic sepia photos, so she went. There she met an interesting older gentleman, who directed her to a smaller museum, not as frequented but worth the visit for its semi-private collection of Seventeenth and Eighteenth century miniatures. “Well, as long as they provide magnifying glasses...” They did, so she went (it's the small Mediterranean looking building...) The older gentleman turned out be the curator of that little museum and an excellent tour guide. There is a nice park close to it, but she was feeling a little tired -- and the day was getting hotter, so she went and did some laps at the Municipal Swimming Arena to get the kinks out of her back. The day after that, as she wasn't yet Kultured out, she went to the Gavern Art Museum, close to one of the many city libraries -a modern, all glass one (in summer, Museums are decidedly cool, aren't they ? ) And then she went back to her hotel, because she had kept the whole last day for the pièce de résistance : The Zinfandel Gallery, a multi-media, multi-shopping, multi-restaurants, multi-everything she had been told about enthusiastically while in Kathy Vale but had declined visiting during her first escape to the Big City. In prevision, she had booked her room at the nearby Karhu hotel. (in fact there were yet two other museums in the vicinity, but she called it quits). Oh my, multi it was ! (and multi-levelled : the shopping was all underground.) After that, a culturally satiated P. R. went back to Martin Falls, more than ready ready to tackle more weeks of lazy, quiet greenery !- 12 Comments
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Tagawa City, Tagawa Prefecture (田川市、田川県)
ユミちゃん posted a City Journal entry in Japan Recreation（日本再作成）
There has not been an update in about a month. I unfortunately have not had much time, as April is coming up very, very soon, which means the start of my college years, so updates will probably be even more sporadic... --REPLIES-- pinkindustry: Thank you! You may not consider yours Japanese, but real Japanese cities actually look quite similar to yours. But anyway, great job on your cities too! Mymyjp: Thank you for your comment! Tonraq: Yeah, you're right. It's not good to worry. あなたの日本語が良いです！頑張れよ！ nas786: Ha ha, quite funny! You have a good sense of humor! And also, thanks for your comment! Paulobergonci: Don't worry, you'll be able to visit Japan one day. jmsepe: Thanks for your comment! NMUSpidey: Thank you for your comment! Tonraq: That's what Kisa Atsuko (on SC4Devotion and here on Simtropolis) said as well. I'll work on it. Kim Sunwoo: Thank you for your comment. 89James89: Cheers, and thank you for your comment! tankmank: Don't worry, it'll come in the next or the one after next update. Ln X: Thank you for your comment. --REPLIES-- Now, on to the update for today! It is going to have a ton of pictures, to make up for my inactivity lately. This right here is a high-up view of the city of Tagawa (田川市、ローマ字：Ｔａｇａｗａ－ｓｈｉ, which I think translates to, "Rice Field River City" in English?), a fictional city located in the fictional Tagawa prefecture (田川県、ローマ字：Ｔａｇａｗａ－ｋｅｎ). This city was made for the monthly challenge, but however, I did not have enough time to complete the city, as it was only half-way done. So when I got back on a couple of months after the fact, (March) I filled in the remaining space on the 1.8 kilometers of low-level flat-space in the Southern part of the city. However, the Northern and far-eastern parts of the city have yet to be finished, so we may just have updates on those too . Here is the region-view picture now: 1. Here is the first area I will show you. However, the photo right here was taken a few years ago (not real years, as I said above that this was started in January) before the major Tagawa flood, caused from an earthquake in the ocean in the Tohoku region. 2. Another moment from before the disastorous flood came. You can see the rice paddies and the small farm houses off to the side, completely unaware of what is about to happen. 3. Even the citizens of southern western Tagawa who are up on a raised plain are not completely safe from the disaster that is about to happen. 4. Something terrible is about to happen, especially on this low level floodplain, which is closest to the wrath of the water. 5. The disaster that is about to happen is especially bad news for the industry and the powerplant, which powers up the whole Tagawa City area, of many people, who most are on 1.8 square kilometers on the raised plain. 6. The flood has reached land fall! The power lines which lead out inland have been completely submerged, cutting off power to those up north. 7. The flooding has reached the houses. The sirens in the city are blaring. People are fleeing from the home of theirs, and the power plant workers have been evacuated. 8. MIN'NA!!! THE WATER HAS REACHED THE POWER PLANT AND MANY OF THE INDUSTRIAL AREA! FLEE TO HIGHER GROUND AS SOON AS YOU CAN! 9. While the power plant workers survived and the people near it survived, isolated small villages like this got left behind along with the people in them... 10. This small village, which was closest to the river and on the lowest elevation got the worst of it. 11. The water eventually began to take over the whole village. The water begins to seep in toward the dense urban area up on higher land. 12. The water come onto the elevated land, destroying everyone that is in its path. 13.Tagawa Police Officer Tomioka on the horn: "Citizens of Tagawa City, Minami ku (Southern ward), please remain calm and evacuate to the northern parts of the city in which the elevation is higher! Evacuate now to the safe places, Denshi ku and Kita ku up in the north!" 14. Tagawa News: Tagawa News Reporting! Today, on March,11, A huge tsunami has come to the Tohoku region flooding many coastal towns, such as Ishinomaki, Onagawa, Motoyoshi, Kesennuma, Rikuzentakata, etc. The one that we are covering today is the Tagawa tsunami, in Tagawa prefecture. As you can see, Minami ku is flooded, with the water rising at around 4.5 meters high, up here. Below on the floodplain, water levels reached almost 56 meters high. 15. Tagawa News: Despite all of this catastrophe, a man named Tomioka Kazuhito was a hero on this day, giving warning to those farther from the tsunami. He saved many lives on this day. 16. Tagawa News: The waters seem to be receding back in. Debris and other trash is getting pulled back in. 17. Tagawa News: Now some areas of the flood plain have become dry. The water is receeding quickly, taking all the debris it can with it. 18. Tagwa News: The waters have receeded to their normal level. Out of the 66,284 people in the city, there were 4,692 casualties, 2,314 people gone misssing, and 7,456 people injured. Due to water getting inside of the Tagawa powerplant, Tagawa has completely lost power. 19. ...So, 4 years after the tsunami of 3/11, Tagawa has rebuilt some of what has been lost. Slowly but surely Tagawa and other towns like it have been rebuilding what they have lost. Unfortunately, however some things can not be regained... 20. Tagawa now is good and well, and recovering from the incident. The grand re opening of the pedestrian mall just happened today. 21. More re development. 22. 23. 24. 25. Sakurano, Tagawa's second indoor mall to open up. 26. 27. An area near downtown. 28. Tagwa's major train station which sees countless numbers of people each day, and Tagawa's downtown along with the SOGO Mega Mall. There are always tons of people walking around here. 29. 30. 31. An industrial area in Kita ku. 32. Tagawa's new water filtration plant, along with industry. 33. 34. The black and brown building is Tagawa's news station, home of Tagawa News! 35. Another train station in Midori ku. 36. A somewhat new residential area of Tagawa. 37. 38.As one first enters the city from the south, the things that they will first notice first is that there are 3 big, major buildings here: The Aqua Research Institute, the Kitamura Major Art Musuem, and the Tagawa City College. There is also a hotel nearby (pink and gray building) for those who want to stay near it. Located in Minami ku. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. The major highway, leading into and out of town. 44. An urban park. 45. 46. A view of Minami ku (ward) (south of highway) and Midori ku (north of highway). 47.View of Minami ku (South of avenue/highway) Denshi ku (All of downtown, it is the electronic and office industry ward) and Kita ku (north of highway/avenue and of the downtown). 48. All of Mizutagawa ku (Rice paddy river ward), basically the whole flood plain. That was the update. It was quite long, but well worth it for me, and for you guys! Comment, and feel free to ask about where I got the mods from! I would also appreciate negative criticism. If there is something you don't like, or something you think that I am doing wrong, please tell.
