Nyhaven

Beautiful! Good job!

Thank you all very much! It's great to have all of your support.

One of my readers at SC4D asked for an updated region picture, so here it is! Click it for full resolution.



The whole region now has a population of 4.5 million residents, if you're curious.

Not only do you have great cities, you also have a fantastic region map! How do you do that?

MAGNIFICENT MAP!!!

Wow! It's fabulous! where did you get the diagonal runways?

Godly !

... sweeeeeeet.

Thanks a lot, guys! Thomas, I use Region Census to make my region views (unfortunately, it seems to have disappeared from the STEX).
Julien, those are actually just regular diagonal taxiways that are standing in for the real runways I'll place there once they're released.

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Well, it may not officially be summer yet (in the Northern Hemisphere), but it's time for another roadtrip through Nyhaven! Today's excursion is a fairly short one, since it follows a shorter street than the others - Broadway only runs for a few miles. I'll make up for it next time, though, with a super-long excursion that will actually start in Kendall. But that's still a ways off... Let's get started on today's trip!


This roundabout on Tenasillahe Island is where Broadway begins, thanks to a project from an earlier update.


At the other, eastern end of the bridge, Broadway enters downtown Nyhaven.


Driving through downtown on Broadway is like taking a trip through Nyhaven's architectural history. Many of the city's oldest skyscrapers are on or near Broadway, standing right next to some of the city's newest buildings.


Further east, Broadway crosses over to the mainland and passes through the city's oldest suburbs, which are now much denser than they once were. Just a block to the north is Saint Mark's Square.


Broadway passes through the heart of Greektown, one of Nyhaven's many historic immigrant neighborhoods. Here, the Old and New Worlds come together, as you can see from the different architectural styles of the local buildings.


Continuing to the east, Broadway eventually passes over Nyhaven's oldest freeway, the Inner Beltway, also known as the R-150. Just visible at the bottom of this picture is James Johnson High School, where our regular story's protagonist, engineer Paul Franconi, went to school.


Finally, Broadway ends at Ridgeland Park, that massive garden you've seen so much of already. It's lovely this time of year, isn't it? Makes me want to go there and just enjoy the outdoors...

Region Census! http://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=913

Amazing job, as usual!

Nice park,man! I really like it!

I seriously want those parks. Now.

OOOOH WOW! This is a really cool update! Oh, and btw, when is Franconi coming back? I really like the story so far...

What I actually meant was how did you make your region look so good, rather than how did you take the image. Or are you just being modest?

Somehow, somehow you manage to make every image of Lower Columbia, and Nyhaven especially, work. It's got a natural charm to it that I've never seen in any other CJ and it's something I doubt I will find again. Every building, every description, everything - just works.

Google Search: Nyhaven
"Did you mean NyHeaven?"
Amazing job. Your parks are unique.

Thanks again, guys!
Daniel D, thanks for the link! I hadn't thought to check on the ELX for some reason...
USNW Daniel, I'm planning on finishing off the Franconis' family vacation in Illu'a before jumping back into normal, infrastructure-related updates, and with Daniel D's recent work on Daloa, I think it won't be too much longer before I can get back to that.
Thomas, heh, I suppose that was modest of me Really, when it comes to building regions, I work with a sort of master plan, deciding how far out the inner city will extend from the CBD, and how much farther out the suburbs will extend beyond that. I also try to sprinkle the suburbs with commercial centers and industrial parks to allow for shorter commutes. In the suburbs themselves, I prefer to lay out arterial transport networks first, then fill in with roads and streets, using different street layouts in different areas to make them look unique. Hope that helps!

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While I prepare the next excursion, here are a couple pictures of some more mundane scenes from Nyhaven's suburbs. As you probably know by now, realism is important to me, so I try to include things like malls and office parks in my suburbs. Here're some examples of each, from a couple of Nyhaven's newest suburbs. If you hate suburbia with a passion, avert your eyes





Enjoy!

Nice Mall Complex, I think I'll stop by sometime

Suburbia!
(but with light rail practically everywhere, suburb haters shouldn't care too much)

1. Where did you get those walls?

2. Daloa is in fact completely done. I just have to work on some government stuff in Colbitz.

Spoiler:

Ah! Nyhaven... :dream:

Pretty good update Zach!

I like suburbia, but I think that was a bit of overkill on the first image. I think it could do with some slightly-different glass buildings, rather than exactly the same one rotated.

I like the second one a lot more though.

I like those suburb! wanted to buy a house there..

Thanks, everyone!

The time has come for us to go on our longest Nyhaven Excursion to date, following 10th Street. This excursion is so long, in fact, it actually starts in Kendall!


10th Street begins here (as Whitehall Road), at the seaport of Pelargir-upon-Columbia, just north of downtown Kendall. This port was built in the 1960s to replace Port Nyhaven, which was too small and unable to be upgraded to a container port. It now handles much of Lower Columbia's imports and exports.


East of the seaport, Whitehall Rd continues past a major railroad junction connecting Nyhaven, Kendall and the port to points beyond. This land is currently undeveloped, but local roads have already been widened in anticipation of future growth.


Eventually, we enter the town of Whitehall Shores, one of Nyhaven's most distant suburbs. This civic center of sorts straddles Whitehall Road and includes Whitehall High School, a local medical clinic, a train station, a library and a fire station.


As Whitehall Road crosses the west channel of the Columbia River, it enters Wahkiakum County and takes on the name 10th Street.


As it passes through the suburbs on Tenasillahe Island, 10th St crosses the R-250 freeway (AKA the Western Beltway) at this interchange. The R-250 was built back in the early 1970s, under the direction of none other than our own Paul Franconi (when he was still a young bachelor!). Now it looks like the freeway may be overdue for some widening...


On the east side of Tenasillahe Island, 10th St passes through this denser neighborhood known as West Nyhaven. It also passes by Nyhaven's largest Catholic church, Our Lady of the Delta.


10th St crosses the main channel of the Columbia into an area south of downtown Nyhaven on this bridge. Until the opening of the Broadway Bridge, this bridge was regularly congested during peak hours. It still sees a lot of traffic, but the Broadway Bridge has helped somewhat.


It then passes through this dense residential neighborhood, along with Chinatown, before returning to the mainland.


10th Street forms the southern boundary of the University of Nyhaven. Across the street from it is a shopping district popular with students.


Elochoman Creek passes under 10th St a bit further east, and forms part of the university's eastern boundary.


A ways further east are these housing projects, built by King Michael the Great in the 1930s.


Rossmore Park is just north of 10th St, a bit west of where the street crosses the R-150. That's one tiny interchange!


Continuing to the east, 10th St crosses Nyhaven's park belt here, with Ridgeland Park to the north and Dawson Park a block south. Those groundskeepers have been slacking off, it seems... Letting trees grow on the soccer field...


We finally come to the end of development along 10th Street here, in the neighborhood of Doheny. The paved part of 10th continues for a ways further, but there's nothing of interest out there yet.

Stupendous update! This is sooo cool! at the trees growing on the football field...

LOL as well, but anyways, That is one Update to really Marvel at, I really adore the 3rd and 2nd to last pictures, I have no words to describe it...

Is this all grown? I think you may have just persuaded me to re-do most of my country if over 90% of it is grown and functional.