Using Themes to create stylised Districts An often overlooked feature using Cities Skylines is that you can stylise individual Districts to your tastes or objectives. Most often we will select what is known as a "Theme" and implement it city-wide. For example my go to city-wide Theme is European and European Suburbia as I don't … Continue reading #citiesskylines Tutorial: Stylised Districts in Your City (Modded)
Got to move and house those Cims Another day and more work to do in the Grand City of Solaria. Recently I did a podcast on Micro Districts and the Soviet Union (see: Micro Districts, the Soviet Union and Modern City Planning). In the most recent streams of Cities Skylines I put the Micro District theory … Continue reading One Metro + One Micro District = Another Day in #CitiesSkylines (Grand City of Solaria)
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
100% clean green power There are several ways I like to keep my cities green in Cities Skylines: Power production will often come from low-carbon emitting sources including hydro or nuclear. I do use the Waste to Energy Incinerators that produce small amounts of air and ground pollution but they make up no more … Continue reading Who Say’s I Don’t Do Green #CitiesSkylines
New name, more content coming I have updated the domain name for Ben's Cities from wordpress.com to Ben's Cities.blog as well allowing for video content to be put to this blog. Of course the upgrade also means more space for lots more Cities Skylines photos as I have a wee back log of photos … Continue reading New Domain Name for Ben’s Cities
Let's see what I have been designing for San Layton City Since Cities Skylines came out in 2015 I have been honing in my Urban Geography and Urban Design skills. That is trying out different spatial developments, different urban design techniques and most of all working the transport system in so your City does … Continue reading Urban Design in #CitiesSkylines? Always! Urban Design and Transport (Integrated Planning) Evolving? I Hope So
Tad wet Just a quick update with San Layton City while I put together the San Layton Reserve post. Today we follow Bus Line 16 from the City Centre to new nature reserve at Garnet Hills. As the title said it was a bleak day (well night) but no matter as busses and monorail … Continue reading A Bleak Day in San Layton City #CitiesSkylines. Also Checking Out some Urban Design Up-close
DLC handles well with a few minor bugs Well one of those bugs is pretty major if I can not place down the International Airport in your map. Anyway yesterday the Cities Skylines Park Life DLC came out so I decided to give it a whirl - once the crucial Mods were updated. I didn't … Continue reading #CitiesSkylines Park Life is Out and I am Having an Absolute Blast. Also Urban Geography and Green Utility Skills Tested
No not car parks Paradox and Colossal Order have announced a new DLC coming out for their vaunted hit - Cities Skylines From Paradox via STEAM: We're thrilled to announce Parklife, our next expansion for Cities: Skylines! 19 APRIL - THELETTERZ We're pleased to announce that Cities: Skylines will be getting a playful new … Continue reading #CitiesSkylines New Expansion Out Next Month: PARKS – Lots and Lots of PARKS
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