City Journal: Rio de Janeiro

[hyyena]

So, thats my first cj in skyline.
Is a trying to make the Rio de janeiro.

The map:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=418245351
Is made by hight map and edition for best gameplay.
I try put the 'all' principal parts from rio in the map, so its not in scale.

 

[hyyena]

So, the city now:

South zone [copacabana, ipanema, downtown(centro), lapa, etc...]

West zone [barra da tijuca, recreio]

Governor island and "fundão" (the island with the federal university of rio de janeiro - UFRJ)

 

[hyyena]

Transit:

Funny thing:
The city start in north zone (+- in amity district on map), and grow to city center (centro), after grow to south zone, and now growing to Barra.
So, the transit start be terrible like in real points tunnels, in tunel with south zone - centro, and in copacabana - botafogo.
Botafogo and jardim botanico have a terrible transit too.

The barra/recreio start grow, so the transit start be terrible in barra - zona sul. (and is rly rly rly terrible in real life too)
With the open of a highway from recreio (cherry park) to Centro the transit the traffic reduze in this areas.

The game have (need) metros so i make 'more lines', Rio have only 2 metro lines in real life.
The line 1: Ipanema - copacabana - botafogo - flamengo - catete - centro - tijuca(mapie square on map).
The line 2: botafogo - flamengo - catete - centro - north zone.

Have 3 lines of trains, all start in "central" on centro.

Centro-tijuca still terrible.

 

[hyyena]

Some details:

Alvorada terminal
Is a big bus terminal on barra da tijuca

In real life:

South zone:

In real life:

Quinta da boa vista (park) and maracanã

In real life:

Santos-dumont airport and city center

real:

 

[caracol]

Very nice!! Looks pretty accurate to me and I loved the fact that you used the Allianz Arena for your Maracana.. =P
If you want it to look even more realistic, download the runways at the Workshop to use at Galeao. With them you can create longer runways!
And nice touch putting Sao Paulo AC next to SDU!

 

[leobraga_]

Nice post, nice city, everything is great, but here's a tip: what about put more trees on the hills?
It's possible to put trees everywhere, no matter how steep is the mountain
like this: