Some 700 photos - and been slacking off a bit Some 700 photos between March and now means I have been slacking off a bit with updates to my cities here. I won't share all 700 in this post as that is picture OVERLOAD for anyone. So over the next few posts I will be … Continue reading Catching up with Manukau #CitiesSkylines #UrbanGeography
Maps, Big Data and pictures - how to make the City flow When your City surges from 109,000 to 133,000 in two days of game play (basically the equivalent of Auckland's growth from 2010 until 2019 (today)) you need to have your wits about you to keep the City functioning and flowing. How do you … Continue reading Manukau Continues to Grow, Using the Toolkit to Make the City Function #CitiesSkylines
Cities Skylines, putting those Geography, Planning, Urban Design, Engineering and story telling skills to the test in one neat package.
Using Cities Skylines as a communication tool. Also how is my City – Manukau going?
Your City is a complete basket case with traffic jams everywhere, your transit system not firing on all cylinders and your zoning choices probably not the most optimal either. I could be talking about any city in the world including my own Auckland and I might just be too.
But today we are going to look at how a real life City Planner is using an Urban Simulator to take people through step by step on using both simple and more complex fixes in turning your City from a basket case to a functioning one.
Starting with one of the more simpler fixes in this case a pair of roundabouts that are clogging traffic:
This next one while I’d say basket case and it nearly broke Sam (Sam is the City Planner running these How to Fix my City series) would be reflective of most medium…
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Harbour Bridge edition gives City gravitas Manukau was missing something as a river city and I could not quite put my finger on it. Ahhhh I know how about an iconic bridge transplanted into the City! Cue BadPeanut and his Sydney Harbour Bridge design! It is not exactly the smallest asset at 130MB (as it … Continue reading BadPeanut Gives #CitiesSkylines the Sydney Harbour Bridge. I Oblige and Build the Manukau River Bridge
NOTE: DO NOT OPEN WITH MOBILE DEVICE OR ON MOBILE DATA. DESKTOP RECOMMENDED Part Two covers the Trans-Manukau Link in the day time, it also covers some of the urban geometries I am using in Manukau via Cities Skylines The map I am playing to build Manukau on (this my first city with the Industries … Continue reading The Wayless Travel – the Trans-Manukau Link Road. Part Two with City Geometries #CitiesSkylines
NOTE: DO NOT OPEN WITH MOBILE DEVICE OR ON MOBILE DATA. DESKTOP RECOMMENDED The map I am playing to build Manukau on (this my first city with the Industries DLC) has a major transport weakness where there is no east-west connection between two sets of inter-city motorways along the coastal area. As a result and … Continue reading The Wayless Travel – the Trans-Manukau Link Road. Part One #CitiesSkylines
Manukau grows in leaps and bounds, also power to the City! Apologies on lack of Cities Skylines content in the latter part of 2018. I had to take my RAM from 16 to 20GB to prevent crash outs of the game and actually get the cities to run without jerking everywhere. https://youtu.be/5dNa6QgpeQs?t=126 With the additional … Continue reading Happy Change the Calendar Day! More #CitiesSkylines Content Coming 2019
Post service delivering that mail With the Cities Skylines Industries DLC also came establishing a post service for the first time ever in your cities. That is build post shops to handle the local mail while the big central mail sorting centres do that sort the mail city-wide (including receiving/sending mail in/out of the City). … Continue reading Postman Pat, Postman Pat, Postman and #CitiesSkylines
Recommended I got the new Industries DLC for Cities Skylines as soon as it came out earlier this week. For a teaser on what this new DLC you can see the trailer below: As with any new DLC the mods that I use always break and we have to wait for updates. Rather surprisingly … Continue reading #CitiesSkylines Industries DLC: My Thoughts and First Try Out
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