Jen's random cities....

[jen_p]

I love your dry comment: "Architectural variety"

It's great isn't it? I spend hours putting a diverse and interesting plugins folder together, and I end up with the same 20 buildings over and over again.

i really like the way you play the game.

Thanks, thats one of the best compliments I've received. It means so much more than "oooh, that looks pretty".

Here's a quick update:

Wainwright's Waterside Park:







Starting to get more larger buildings:

[bat]

Fantastic park there and great new pictures!

[rooker1]

Wainwright's Waterside Park looks awesome.  I love the wheel thingy.  Brainblock, what are those called again??    Doesn't matter cause it all looks great. hehehe



Robin   

[urban]

interseting use of old and modern looking buildings

[NikNik]

It's great isn't it? I spend hours putting a diverse and interesting plugins folder together, and I end up with the same 20 buildings over and over again.

I am so glad you mention this. i also have the smae buildings growing in my towns, with 4.2 Gig of lots and bats I might expect a bit more variety. I guess the city planners in my PC are a bunch of traditionalists 

I like that picture with the tiny (Haarlemmergold) dutch buildings squeezed between all those massive highrises. It's somewhat funny.

That last picture also brought a smile to my face with the huge Embassy Suites building on one site and the medeterranian building across it where the laundry still hangs in the alley between the houses and life takes it slow pace. What a big contradiction!

Love it.

Nik-Nik

[jayo]

Exellent work-which region is this in??

[thundercrack83]

Waterside Park looks amazing, my friend! The London Eye and the Millennium Bridge--fantastic work! I'll be looking forward to seeing more!

[jen_p]

Sorry I haven't updated this for so long, I've been so busy. I'm in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and I have had rehearsals all last week, opening night on Friday and two performances on Saturday. And I went to a party last night and haven't slept yet. I had a great time though.

Anyway, here are a few more images from Wainwright:



A few years later, the park is surrounded by more taller buildings:



Overviews of the city so far:





A hillside neighbourhood:

[capo]

Sorry I haven't updated this for so long, I've been so busy. I'm in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and I have had rehearsals all last week, opening night on Friday and two performances on Saturday. And I went to a party last night and haven't slept yet. I had a great time though.

I don't know what you do exactly but I hope all went well last Saturday!

Looking at the pictures, I'd say it was worth the wait. I really like that picture with the ferris wheel (is that the right word for it in english?) and London's milleniumbridge...I sure hope that your bridge doesn't tremble and swing making your sims feeling sick in their belly's like the original does/did

That hillside area sure looks like a nice place to live, plenty of streetside parking, street trees and as it appears: not that much traffic! It's really too bad that it's so hard to grow realistic buildings on a slope, looking at it the bright side: all the residents need is a long rubber cord and some basic mathematical knowledge to be able to bungy jump into the backdoor neighbour's backyard!

All the best with the busy life! I hope you can find the time to post a small update, because I like what I see here

[sebes]

Jen , I envie you - that even in such a busy period as this is for you, you find the time to play the game AND to even post the result here in your MD. Bravo Girl! \\

Needless to say: the hillside neighbourhood has all footprints of the 'made by Jen' style that I recognize out of thousands. Consider it a compliment 

[bat]

Wonderful looking pictures of that city there! Great work!

[rooker1]

Great work on the city.  I really like your close ups.  I am really bad when it comes to building on slopes and you seem to always do a pretty good job, well done.



Robin   

[jen_p]

Well, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat finishes tomorrow night, and after that I should have much more time to devote to SimCity again. In the mean time, here are a few images from Lutyens. We saw this city a while back, but since then it has had a complete overhaul.

[bat]

Some really great pictures of the downtown! Great using of the GLR.

[EDGE4194]

  very nice!

[thundercrack83]

As usual, a magnificent update here, jen_p! I love the way you used the GLR! Keep up the good work, my friend!

[Pat]

Jen wow as usal masterful and well crafted works of art from you... sorry i missed last few updates but wow its still great to catch up and follow some more great devolpment - pat

[CabraBuitre]

I really like your use of the GLR.  Are those stations NOB's?  I recognize them... just can't put my finger on it...!  Is it being used in the city?

[Yoman]

Wonderful work with the GLR, I love how it branches out of the center of the avenue to go to stations with little parking lots. The details in your pics such as that make them wonderful to look at. Keep up this awesome work.

[NikNik]

WELCOME to PAGE 19!!!

Very nice work Jen.
Great to see how that GLR spirals through the streets. Well done indeed those stations and parking lots combo.

Take care,

Nik-Nik