MOVE THAT TRAM! After months (real life) preparing the City Centre, and one Autumn Breeze update from Paradox later, it is finally time to allow the cims and businesses to move into the Waikato City Centre, South Waikato Junction, and River View. Also in Waikato 6.6 I also: explain the incremental nature of new zoning, … Continue reading Time to Let Rip: Opening the City Centre! | Waikato 6.6 | #citiesskylines2
Your Destination; Congestion Free! After altering the plan to being the opening of the City Centre forward, there is one more thing to do before we let in the first residents and businesses. Joining up the transit system. Unless you want to pay $50/day in park? Welcome to Waikato 6.5 where I put my Transit … Continue reading Stitching The Line to Save YOU Time (Part 2) | Waikato 6.5 | #citiesskylines2
Altering the Plans: Downtown (and Waikato Update) In preparation for new game content, we are bringing forward letting the simulator rip in the City Centre. As I want to let the simulator rip sooner to get the residents, businesses and tourists into the City Centre; being the good planner I am, I am altering the … Continue reading I am altering the Plan, PRAY I DON’T ALTER IT FURTHER. #CitiesSkylines2
Introducing South Waikato Junction, and River View (Riverside) & More Insight into Ben's planning methodologies! City Centres with their density, bustling cosmopolitan life and the chaotic environment need friends. And most often it is the inner suburbs that provide that friendship. Introducing South Waikato Junction and Riverside; with South Waikato to be an inner suburb … Continue reading The City Centre Gets a Friend | Waikato Part 6.2 | #citiesskylines2
A game of two halves as work continues on the City Centre Layering the Cake in a game of two halves? Yep that is what it comes down to when building something as complex as your City Centre. In 6.1 I layer some cake as infrastructure work continues for Waikato City Centre. But much more … Continue reading Layering the (City Centre) Cake! | Waikato Part 6.1 | #citiesskylines2
Those colour pens are back out again! If Spatial Planning is about Spatial Form Influencing Behaviour AND Behaviour Influencing Spatial Form, while Land Use Planning is to carry out the Spatial Plan, then what do both have in common? COLUR PENS (and paper)! So, let's go Spatial and Land Use Planning with a new mod … Continue reading Those Colour Pens Again: Ben Goes Spatial Planning – the City Centre | Waikato Part 6.0 | #citiesskylines2
Time for our SECOND review, as Waikato hits LARGE city status #urbanplanning When Waikato was first "reviewed" the city was at medium city status and around 50-62,000 cims. Now, after Part 5 of the Waikato Series heading into Part 6 the City has grown to 173,000 and definitely sits in LARGE city status for a … Continue reading Waikato Grows Up: Reviewing Waikato Round 2 – 173,000 Cims | #citiesskylines2
Feeding the City and Building Those Houses! Also introducing the new urban settlements of Clevedon and Waipa! If Concrete and Steel built Waikato then Old McDonald's Farm feeds a hungry Waikato. Also TIMBER otherwise how else is your brand new house, that lovely furniture and those upgrades all get provided for (without importing)? Parts 5.3 … Continue reading Old McDonald had a farm and TIMBER | Waikato Parts 5.3 and 5.4 | #citiesskylines2
Getting under the hood of Ben's urban creations In the first of three specials with Waikato, I take a tour of Waikato Gardens while explaining urban concepts. Waikato Gardens was built as part of Waikato 5.2 to support the metals and concrete industries, but was not extensively covered in that video. Urban Planning, Urban Design, … Continue reading Ben Tours His Urban Creation | Waikato Special – Part 1 | #citiesskylines
