Maarten's Regions (Imaginia and Schellingen Stadt)

[MandelSoft]

Well, it has been one and a half years since I last updated this CJ. During that time I've redeveloped parts of Imaginia (as you may have seen in my live streams), but lately, I've returned to Schellingen-Stadt again. I'm finishing up the region and so far, I've only got 3 tiles to go (whohoo!). Since I have a lot of material ready, I think it's time for some updates again.

Today we are taking a look of one of the surrounding towns, Amelunxen. It's one of the larger rural towns around Schellingen-Stadt and it's one of the older towns in the region. Founded by the Nagaskians, this city has a long history before the Prussian colonisation in the 17th century. Nonetheless, this town does show some clear traces of colonisation, especially the town's church building. Unlike most of Schellingen Republic (which is mainly Lutherian protestant), this region of Schellingen is quite catholic.

We start at the town square. Amelunxen is known for its agricultural market place and it's old town buildings. It's the tourist of the region and the town can be described as picturesque...
 

As move from the town square, we see a lot of the old town buildings next to the narrow streets...

But the town has grown. Around the old town center you see new housing, grown in between the old town roads (note the grid-breaking angles!)

Zooming out, you see that this town resembles no grid. You also get a nice overview of the small size of this town. Surrounded by farmlands...
 

East of Amelunxen, we have the Amelunxerwald Nature Preservatory. There's not much development here and just a few roads. People like to wander in this dense forest on the various walking trails set out in the woods...
 

And in the middle of the woods, far away of any interference of signals from mobile phones and such, we have the Amelunxen Space Observatory, watching the skies to record the wonders of the universe.
 

Well, that's it for today. I hope you enjoyed this update

Best,
Maarten

[riiga]

Fantastic to see you updating your MD! 

[Gugu3]

Finlly a new update!!!
great to see this CJ back

[Swordmaster]

Good to see this one return, indeed. Cool town and interesting transit networks (duh )


Cheers
Willy

[MandelSoft]

Fantastic to see you updating your MD! 

Finlly a new update!!!
great to see this CJ back

Good to see this one return, indeed. Cool town and interesting transit networks (duh )


Cheers
Willy

Thank you all for your kind replies

Today we're going to take a look at two small rural towns, Horneby and Marienkirchen. Located 3 km away from each other, they fit in the same city tile. But most notable is: both towns don't conform to the grid. How? Well, let's find out!

We first start with Horneby:

It's a small town like you know from everywhere. Low density buildings, one shop, a church and hey, a roundabout. Not that much eh? But look at the layout: almost all roads are diagonal, with a lot of smooth curves in place! And the best part is: it's all dragable!

As we zoom out, more and more grid-less things start to appear...

Here we have our main rural highway, the Bundesstrasse 17. It's classified as a "Schnellstasse", allowing maximum speeds of 110 km/h and having no at-grade intersections.

Both Horneby and Marienkirchen have a parclo interchange with the B17. I just love to build parclos!

Now on to Marienkirchen. It's slightly bigger than Horneby, but again, we see a broken grid here too!

And to conclude, we get an overview pic of Marienkirchen, showing it in all it's gridlessness...

See you next time!

Best,
Maarten

[Swordmaster]

RIP Grid. It was fun knowing you

Love all the different layouts here. Very nice.


Cheers
Willy

[mave94]

Where is the grid? I can hardly spot any grid on these pictures! I'm glad to see new updates by you.

-Matthijs

[cdpferde]

Thanks for this nice Pictures!
Thats really great and i can learn a lot off.

Many Thanks again

Regards
Christian

[riiga]

The grid is dead. Long live the grid! 

[Piterdaw1]

Wow! What a great MD! I'm very impressed! Fantastic rular pics in Your last update. 

[Connor]

Great pics! The lack of grid in that last one is brilliant, great work 

[Kergelen]

Awesome work killing the grid. Love it so much

[art128]

That's some fantastic work at breaking the grid, Maarten! The small villages and the farms are extremely well engineered. The interchanges are well made too.

Too bad you're also invaded by the high wealth grass.. I find it to be one of the ugliest texture maxis made. I tried switching the textures IID for the low wealth one that I find prettier, but too bad the bright green grass still comes up showing when I zone...

[eldaldo]

Yeah, I'm amazed at your street layouts in some of those images.  Very well done!

[kelis]

WOW Maarten !! This last village is stunning !! I can not even imagine the headache that has been creating all these roads, but the result is perfect, looks very realistic, I like it !!!

[Gugu3]

Very nice Maarten!!!love all those curvy roads and streets

[Dantes]

Most of all I like the third picture. I like it very much as you have made ​​the land and can cross the streets. Great work!

[FrankU]

Wow, fight the grid! 

Do you know what this MD really needs? Fractional Angled Farm Fields (FAFF)! Who will make the props for me? I will do the fields.

[kbieniu7]

I just love to build parclos!

Agree

Everythig else has been said. I can add, that your region looks like a cool place to play spatial management

[threestooges]

Call a region by any name, it's still just as sweet. Welcome to your second time here in OSITM Maarten. Looking forward to seeing what you have in store.



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