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 BIG BOI: Reviewing Waikato Round 2 – 173,000 Cims | #citiesskylines
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
Industrial Expansion of Waikato Continues Bob the Builder can he build it? Well he certainly can't if we don't have the concrete and steel to build with available. Nor can we get consumer products including electronics and cars. So we better set up the mines and quarries, build those steel and concrete plants, line up … Continue reading Steel and Concrete Built This City | Waikato – Part 5.2 | #citiesskylines2
Industry powers the city while I need 13,000 new working residents for Waikato The Drill Baby Drill MAGA and Shane Jones bravado aside, resources and subsequent industry are often the primary reason cities are founded, live, and sometimes die (if the resource is depleted or deindustrialisation went horridly wrong and urban renewal did not happen … Continue reading DRILL THAT OIL. Also hello Howick | Waikato 5.1 | #citiesskylines2
Time for those Bridges, Ports, Railways and Highways Bridges, Ports, Railways, and Highways. No endless business cases, no political partisan pontification, no dithering apart from a fast growing city catching me a tad short. Just a spatial plan, a long-term-plan, and some serious construction! With Waikato hitting 60,000 (large town or small city status) it … Continue reading Bridges, Ports, Railways and Highways | Waikato 5.0 | #citiesskylines2
Time for our first review, talking expansion, and some more chaotic driving again Our first cims and businesses have settled in, and Waikato has exploded already to nearly 50,000 cims. That puts it on large town - small city status already, and that means I have my work cut out. But let's take a look … Continue reading Reviewing Waikato + First Urban Expansion + More Losing My Clutch | Waikato 4.1 | #citiesskylines2
Driving Mod allows you to drive your mean streets of your city! Time to drive the streets of Waikato in Cities Skylines 2! And yep we have all the loving jank that goes with it ^_^ Remember the days of Streets of Sim City? Where you could import your Sim City 2000 creations and drive, … Continue reading Streets of Sim City Return to #CitiesSkylines2 – aka I lost my clutch somewhere in Waikato
Huh? 42,000 cims already? Stormy Weather does not stop excited cims moving into new city! The weather might be a bit yuck but that does not stop our first 8,000 cims arriving by car, train and coach (bus) to stake their claim as the first residents of Waikato. Captains of industry also also scrambling as … Continue reading MOVE THAT BUS. Here come the first residents | Waikato Part 4.0 | #citiesskylines2
Time for a reading on Transit by Design before implementing said transit into Waikato The Spatial Plan is written, the infrastructure is in place, I finally laid down the Zones, and we are ready to let the first cims and businesses move in. BUT FIRST we have one more of the puzzle to complete. I … Continue reading Transit by Design: Designing Transit That Works | Waikato Part 3.1 | #citiesskylines2
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