Shreveport - American City Project - Opinions Needed

KIpate, if you are building an American college town (if the college is important to the city, it is a college town) you have to build a stadium. I mean, you are free to do whatever, but there are hardly any college towns without stadiums in America.

As for the roundabouts, there are 13 in the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti area... Americans have um... sort of. hahaha.

My only suggestion would be to add more trees to the housing lots.(the suburbs will look bare) I know trees can be cumbersome and whatnot, but in-game lot plants ado not fill the greenery of an American city well enough. I find I always want to add trees to the 'backyards'. Just my opinion.

 

Hello! I just wanted to share my opinion. I am also sorry for my bad English. If I have a grammatical mistake, please tell that.
As the coal gets worthless, job opportunities start to decrease. Also coal is almost finished in these mines, so companies start to shut themselves or just move to another part. Then, workers need to get a job so they leave the town gradually. The population decreases slowly. Schools, hospitals, fire and police stations start to shut down also. However, town is still an important port in this region, so its economy isn't that bad.
-Years later-
The population slowly decreases and a lot of people have moved to another town. But in these years, water/oil/farming (due to the region's characteristics) becomes a big problem in the world. Explorers find
some water/oil/good dirt to farm in the city. Also, a very big city's suburbs start to approach to the town. A lot of workers come to there to work, and also, people who moves to the big city starts to move here. A lot of hospitals, police and fire stations and schools open their doors. New stadiums, universities, a big port, libraries, groceries, gyms, food courts are built in this time. Town becomes a liveable place after this, and residents are happy. Town starts to grow and turn into a city. This city becomes one of the most important suburbs of this town. Gradually, it even starts to turn into a big city and starts to fall apart from that city.

I hope it's nice

 

@kipate I really like the city, so far. Even though I specialize in American cities, yours is better than mine.

@zopir I like that backstory. It is realistic and interesting.

 

Kipate, you don't have to exactly build your stadium in the college. UNO (Omaha) where I went and Ann Arbor/UM's stadium (which I guess is one of the largest) isn't inside their college campuses. W/the growth project you have made with this city, I wouldn't put the stadium in the college. The college will eventually have a large impact on the city, so at the start, they wouldn't have a stadium as they are expensive as F to build. Most college that started off with the city and grew to importance don't have the room for a stadium around them as they are generally built in the bracket right below dense urbran.. the neighborhoods surrounding dense urban but not yet track-home suburbs. You not having room in your build is exactly the history you want (at least in my opinion) as it does mimic American history.. which I think you are trying to do, no? So... to me you are building it really spot on!

 

Love it!! Thanks, @kipate!

 

Thank you Kipate been looking for something like these for a while