City Journal: Cardigan

[Myquandro]

With After Dark I've started a new city, to take advantage of the new systems the best way possible. The new city is called Cardigan and I have many plans for this new city that located on an island with the same name.

With this city I will try to combine aesthetics, realism and efficient services and roads. The efficient road designs are something I'm familiar with, but this time I want to combine that with aesthetics and realism. Inspiration is coming from myself, what I see around me, what I see when I'm on holidays, viewing cities with google maps and I take inspiration from two youtube channels from Fluxtrance (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnUWlZZoYZS1IotzB9ytWeg) and Atys (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtZq_wCPrxeGjLs8Mq16F9A).

Update 1: City Journal: Cardigan - Valencay
Update 2: City Journal: Cardigan - Seaport

 

[Myquandro]

Update 1: Valencay

The first district I've created is Valencay. This is a small town near the sea with some farmland.

The only type of industry for this town is farming. The fields are in-between the forests and the dirt roads connect the farms to the city's collector road.

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A windmill is used for processing and at the same time draws some tourists to this town (although it's not much).

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The city has many low density residential area's with nice gardens. A lot in calm neighbourhoods, others with sea view and some are on walking distances from the shops.

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The town has a recycling center (that's too large for this town alone, but is build for the future) that is placed just behind a couple rows of trees to make it invisible for the residents.

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And at last I've made some pictures to show how it looks at different time of day.

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[Spockyt]

I can't help but wonder, Lord Cardigan, or Cardigan, Wales?

It is a beautiful city so far, much better the. I can do. Although I have done some creative touches in my Ad cities, unlike all of my Pre-AD cities, which were endless grids.

 

[Myquandro]

The name for the city is just my own creativity (although it might have popped up because I've seen it somewhere else). The names for the districts will partially be creativity and partially because of towns/cities I used as inspiration (which doesn't in any way mean copying a city, so it's not supposed to look like that city).

Valencay is a French village I look at for inspiration. If I'm going to redo it at some point I will try to find French styled houses to put into this district (now it's standard European style).

Thanks for the compliment about the looks. It takes a fair amount of time to do this and I'm still not satisfied (just decided to go to the next district and improve it at a later moment). The previous city I made one or two months after the game came out was Green Estuary, it's by far not as detailed as this city is, but I could do three larger districts in the same time as I did this single district. It all comes down mainly to putting in more time, only when you do that creativity/inspiration will become a factor that influences how it turns out.

Right now I'm working on a slightly bigger district with walls around it in an old European style. I've got no idea how it will turn out in the end, but I've got some inspiration. In the mean time I've got to make time for school and do some work at the Succession Game city.

And the. For later in the city I want to do a large airport, a mega harbor, some tourist locations (marina, beach, casino's, etc.) and much more. Just need a lot of time to get to that. But it's just ideas, don't know for sure which ones I'll make. If you have some ideas please post them, maybe I like the idea and will build such a district.

 

[Myquandro]

Update 2: Cardigan Seaport

This time I've focussed on creating a seaport that can last the entire city (at least for what I can oversee at the moment) and that has the right industrial look and feel.

An Overview of the seaport

More close-up

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The roads and trains overlapping gives the suggestion that space is limited

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Ships in the harbour and tanks makes the seaport come to life

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A lot of train tracks getting to and from the seaport each with their own loading dock. The tracks are still grown over with grass and plants, but as soon as trains will start rolling into the port the city will clear the tracks.

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[Atys SLC]

It's lovely. Particulary the farms

Don't hide your beautiful pics in beacons.

 

[Turjan]

Cardigan, the sister city of Sweater. Sorry, I couldn't resist .

Awesome images and awesome harbor. I have to try something like that one day.

 

[Mr_Glendale]

Where can i get these yellow fields? Wheat or what is that?

 

[John Bon Jovi]

Nice Harbor, I would love to see some other parts of your town too.....