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Here is the current city project I have going. It's name is River Rouge and it's being built on the Gloucester map.

 

Here is some progress on my city River Rouge. Enjoy!

 

For now, it is very successful!
I like all the little details

 

I personally don't think that the mixture of buildings is odd, come to any modern nation like Australia or the US and you will see this type of mixture of buildings all the time.
A lot of churches in Australia are in gothic style, also mixed with modern glass and victorian and edwardian architecture. Also not many modern nations cities have separate old city and separate new city like a lot of Europe. Generally modern nations (like Aus & US) tended to demolish old buildings to be replaced with new glass towers side by side with gothic, victorian etc.

The upgraded city hall in this game is basically the Sydney city hall, in real life that building is surrounded by skyscrapers, and every now and then an old victorian shop or church, a gothic cathedral sprinkled in too.

But you are right about the industrial area, some green around some edges to make buffer to residential area is all that's needed.

 

My industrial area is completely separate from residents.. there's a train yard in between. However, I do go back and forth with the greenery around my industries. I just hate the way plaza look when just used as filler. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I am explicitly going for US/Canada/Australian/South African style city building.

 

1. Kip, yeah the airport and city are not to be huge. I agree, if the airport was going to be more substantial I would have increased the highways. But, I don't ever actually build over 3-4 direction lanes of a highway. I simply don't like the way it looks in the game.

Most important to me is getting the runway at a realistic length (something i am overly critical of other people about) Mines 3.5 - 4k meters, which should accommodate most airliners. My city isn't 'international' so it doesnt need to take on the biggest planes.

2. The sports complex isn't a sports complex, it's a university. I am working getting the angle of photos just right to have the area show more as a school.

I wish there was a way to reverse the lighting for "midday" so I could pane to the opp. side of the school and not have it be shadowed. If I turn night on and then off all my streetlights stay on. I only take off angle/night pictures when I can quit the game afterwards.

3. I do battle with the greenery around my industry. I hate filling areas with plaza though, looks even more unnatural to me. I have thought a few times about editing.

4. I do not agree in the slightest about mixing styles or what styles should and shouldn't be used.

5. I am not going for all out realism and tend to like some heavily edited surrealism.

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

 

Yeah, but I do agree with you and city about my industry area.. I have mulled over it as I build..

 

Add industrial plaza and add lines of trees individually, maybe you would like that better. I do similar in my city, cause no industrial area that I've seen in my country has just concrete and asphalt. Quite a lot have landscaped gardens and trees in between the buildings.

But to be honest, just do whatever you like. You are building it for your own pleasure so don't listen to me

 

Na, you're good City. I love feedback, if it's not subjective. Like I said, I am on the same lines of thinking as you.. there is just too much greenery around my industry. If it's minor things like we've been talking about I think I am on the right track for one awesome looking college town. Thanks.

Oh, I like your thoughts on mixed styles. I used London City Hall in this city.. If I remember right that sit across from the Tower of London in real life. That a pretty wild mix of style. In-fact, London is an awesome example of mixing old and new.

 

If only "nice" was objective and not solely based on ones preferences. Thanks though, I will keep editing in mind..

 

Please guys , don't be so neccesserly so exact with the area where the city is in a city builder. It look like the greatest and richest city in the world. I think people really get more than atlest 68,000 $. It look even richer than Sweden or Denmark. xD I should make them independend xD. I really love it has a tropical climate , sad that they don't have tropical trees as main forest. You should take more look and time in the XLEX or XXLEX and try to make it compartible with your version of Cities XL to. They are amazing mods like this one-->Ploppables - Camping Grounds | XLNation - Cities XXL. You should build campings to in youre city. It looks totally awesome with it. Great work @Kurtis Edwards keep up you're work. I should want to have a copy of city to , for making Streetview in youre city it looks so great.

 

I am not sure what ya mean by tropical. The map is Gloucester, UK and most of the in-game trees are conifers. I am solely using the European Park as my 'forests' because I love the shade of lawn the trees are on, plus most of the shrubs and flowers are on the same shade of lawn too. Thank you for the kind words. I do love this city so far. I do have the camping ground mod and about 800 others.. hahaha. The city is barely along... there will be much more coming.

 

Here is my European style city, work in progress, currently 300k inhabitants.

 

Hey can I ask which mods you are using for your roads? Especially that expressway with free flowing ramps onto your highway... it's a 6-lane road and it also has different lanes designated for different traffic directions.

 

here's a little something something for you city-lovers...

 

That's pretty impeccable! Great job. Very eastern seaboard to me.