Show us your Downtowns & CBD's!

ESTERNOCLEIDOMASTOIDEO · October 05, 2011, 11:33:55 AM

Awesome pictures everyone

and by the way here it is a picture from my financial center

Swordmaster · October 05, 2011, 12:47:54 PM

Quote from: ESTERNOCLEIDOMASTOIDEO on October 05, 2011, 11:33:55 AM
Awesome pictures everyone and by the way here it is a picture from my financial center

Now, that's an awesome picture, but it's 5MB big! Please use jpg format!

Terring7 · October 09, 2011, 10:57:07 AM

Martian downtown. More in my M.D.

Gurning_Chimp · October 10, 2011, 05:53:31 PM

Here's some pics of Freedom City's Financial District, this was before I got NAM and was a big build (I decided to build a regionwide city) I know for a fact it's not as good as the amazing builds I've seen on this thread!

Evillions8 · October 15, 2011, 08:51:43 AM

More at my MD.

Haljackey · October 15, 2011, 12:18:41 PM

Downtown Halton, a new city I have been working on

Before:

After:

some people play call of duty, I make stuff

mike3775 · October 15, 2011, 12:25:10 PM

Quote from: Haljackey on October 15, 2011, 12:18:41 PM
Downtown Halton, a new city I have been working on

Before:

After:

some people play call of duty, I make stuff

Nice. How much bulldozing to get rid of the repetition that tends to occur(which I see very little of in the after pic)?

banditp61 · October 15, 2011, 02:57:18 PM

All my downtown areas are called Denver, and have the Denver Republic Plaza in them. This is a new city I've made with a riving flowing through it. On the East bank is the CBD while the West bank (Jefferson) is the residential area with strict building policies on high rises, hence the low lining skyline on the Western half.

Haljackey · October 16, 2011, 05:00:24 PM

Quote from: mike3775 on October 15, 2011, 12:25:10 PM

Nice. How much bulldozing to get rid of the repetition that tends to occur(which I see very little of in the after pic)?

To be honest a lot of this one was plopped. There was however a lot of demolition. When you see a building you like, you can make it historic so nothing replaces it.

Here's a pic of that downtown area at night:

mike3775 · October 17, 2011, 10:39:42 AM

Great job. Yeah I love the historical aspect big time. I love watching skyscrapers rise out of nothing, just hate how the game repeats itself over and over.

magee_b · October 17, 2011, 11:18:49 AM

A quick snapshot of downtown from the current region I am working on.

Some people from the east coast of Canada may be able to pick up on where I drew my inspiration for the road layout.

Cheers!

dohraymii · October 17, 2011, 03:55:44 PM

Hooverton at night:

Risu · October 17, 2011, 06:08:02 PM

Quote from: banditp61 on October 15, 2011, 02:57:18 PM

I still wonder which terrain mod you use? I don't recognise that one....

banditp61 · October 18, 2011, 10:02:14 AM

To be honest, I really don't remember. I think I found it on the LEX like two years ago. I'll look around for it. It's a great terrain mod.

kody_organmaster · October 22, 2011, 12:58:41 AM

Here is Middletown, A growing large southern suburb of the Greater Hampton Metro.

leeam1989 · October 23, 2011, 12:03:30 PM

My city that i am working on Manchester!!
by the time ive finished on this it will be a major city, The old city castle sits in themiddle of the city on a hill, where the rest of the city has been built up around the hill, known as Castle Hill.
The area towards the north of the hill is the shopping district, with department stores and deisnger shops.

netmod · October 23, 2011, 07:45:02 PM

MCO1254 · December 03, 2011, 09:33:45 AM

I'm not sure that this is the correct thread to showcase this part of my city. This is the central business district of Waldman, an inner-ring suburb of a larger city that I'm creating. In the early 1800s, Waldman was developing as its own city, but as its coastal neighbor grew, it eventually became surrounded by suburbs and became known as one itself.

You can see the older buildings of the downtown area on the upper (eastern) part of the picture. Old brick buildings and warehouses dominated the skyline. The city had originally been a manufacturing hub, but now has a more diverse economy - or at least it's trying to create one. The eastern side of downtown has languished over the last 30 years. Recently though, there has been a resurgence of investment just west of downtown. A new el-rail station was built and surrounded with transit-oriented-development with mixed-uses and a needed influx of new residents.

The second picture provides us with a different view of the older part of downtown Waldman. The railroad tracks still exist, but a lot of the factories from the early 1900s through the `20s are gone. The housing towards the bottom of the picture is all older stock and that neighborhood suffers from a high foreclosure rate and plummeting home values.

This final photo shows us a zoomed in view of the northern side of the older downtown. The five story red brick building on the bottom of the page is an extension center for the state college found ten miles to the north. The university's investment in downtown has stimulated growth. That development and the adjacent apartments are the furthest out of the new transit-oriented-development mentioned with the first picture.

I hope you enjoyed my pictures. Let me know what you think.

mike3775 · December 03, 2011, 10:34:41 AM

I really like your mixture of the NAM, NWM, and Single track rail usage throughout the city. Very well done

Risu · December 03, 2011, 03:10:36 PM

Quote from: MCO1254 on December 03, 2011, 09:33:45 AM
I'm not sure that this is the correct thread to showcase this part of my city. This is the central business district of Waldman, an inner-ring suburb of a larger city that I'm creating. In the early 1800s, Waldman was developing as its own city, but as its coastal neighbor grew, it eventually became surrounded by suburbs and became known as one itself.

You can see the older buildings of the downtown area on the upper (eastern) part of the picture. Old brick buildings and warehouses dominated the skyline. The city had originally been a manufacturing hub, but now has a more diverse economy - or at least it's trying to create one. The eastern side of downtown has languished over the last 30 years. Recently though, there has been a resurgence of investment just west of downtown. A new el-rail station was built and surrounded with transit-oriented-development with mixed-uses and a needed influx of new residents.

The second picture provides us with a different view of the older part of downtown Waldman. The railroad tracks still exist, but a lot of the factories from the early 1900s through the `20s are gone. The housing towards the bottom of the picture is all older stock and that neighborhood suffers from a high foreclosure rate and plummeting home values.

This final photo shows us a zoomed in view of the northern side of the older downtown. The five story red brick building on the bottom of the page is an extension center for the state college found ten miles to the north. The university's investment in downtown has stimulated growth. That development and the adjacent apartments are the furthest out of the new transit-oriented-development mentioned with the first picture.

I hope you enjoyed my pictures. Let me know what you think.

You went and made a gritty-city look rather appealing. The backstory helps justify the photoes. It's relieving to fianlly see something other than a few caption-less pics of skyscrapers and mass transit lines.

Very well done.