Cities Skylines: Dutch City - Episode 1 - Road Planning & More

[@LucasdeKam]

Unrealistic amount of roundabouts? You can never go unrealistic with the amount of roundabouts in a dutch city :D

[@Cythil]

+Lucas K. Yeah. Compared to the Swedish city I live next to this is pretty tame.

[@LucasdeKam]

Cythil​ ah cool, I think Sweden is a lot like the Netherlands in many ways :))

[@Reflox1]

+Lucas K. I think most of Western and Northern Europe have a rounadbout fetish. I live in Switzerland, in a average town of 10k people and we have like 4 roundabouts in 5 minutes of driving.

[@LucasdeKam]

*****​ I think you're right ;)

[@CR-dq1ch]

+Homunkulus Can only agree with you. My parents live in a village with 900 people, they have 2 roundabouts. //Sweden

[@Fluxtrance]

Happy to see you taking on the Dutch theme Silv! I like this style of video - I don't think many people are trying to recreate this style of city planning (at least on KZbin, anyway)

[@Silvarret]

+Fluxtrance Thanks! - I actually have to say, the Rhinestone Island series was part of what convinced me to come back to this game, so it's awesome to see you here!

[@Silvarret]

+Herosis Definitely!

[@kidicarus1998]

+Fluxtrance well he learned from the god of City Skylines :)

[@thevvclan251]

Hi flux

[@melpomeneouranos4973]

Fluxtrance fancy seeing you here, dude! Big fan!!

[@NitrogamingNL1]

"I want to make a dutch style city" - Silvarret a few moments later..... makes a hill* aaaaaanddd, you failed..... xD My toughts when I saw that xDD anyways, nice video, like the series!

[@89nekkoinu]

"dutch talking about problem for thousand of years before actually doing it" well now i can blame my dutch bloodline every time i'm procrastinating

[@lordbossharrow]

The video is too fast I think, making me feel dizzy.

[@dogey691]

True

[@yaell9431]

Download de Albertheijn supermarkt en plaats em! Een Nederlandse supermarkt ;)

[@Silvarret]

+Mark22426 Good idea - no idea how I forgot this. I do have an Aldi already, though :)

[@Markell1991]

+Mark22426 Jumbo > AH

[@AllardWolff]

+Markell1991 Nouja kwalitatief is de AH beter, maar Jumbo is dan weer goedkoper

[@AllardWolff]

+Silvarret Zou je misschien Transport Tycoon willen spelen? Heet TTD en je kan 'm downloaden op openttd.org. Oud spelletje maar ken je vast wel

[@Silvarret]

+MrWolff1994 Ik ken TTD wel, maar heb er geen ervaring mee :/ ik speel het liefst spellen waar ik veel ervaring mee heb. Jumbo is de shit trouwens, maar ik ben zelf het meest fan van de Lidl.

[@jelledebock7173]

That timelapse is to fast for me

[@arvidkristoffersson3154]

+Jelle de Bock my head broke watching this

[@DB-nl9xw]

I agree. It got me dizzy!

[@89nekkoinu]

+Jelle de Bock you can slow it down in youtube setting

[@ZarniwoopVannHaarl]

+Eko ari wibowo Or speed it up. Neither of which make this viewable.

[@Silvarret]

+ZarniwoopVannHaarl I agree, slowing it down will make the framerate low and speeding it up will make the movement worse.

[@TannovandeKamp]

"It's gonna, arguably, be an unrealistic amount of roundabouts." Nah. There's no such thing as too many roundabouts in the Netherlands. ;)

[@Raptoria]

Great to see all this support for you! You did some great things here and I visited the NL myself and it looked just like this! Very wonderful, keep doing what you do. Please upload this to the workshop for us? Thanks!

[@Silvarret]

+Raptor Thanks, the city will hopefully be up on the Workshop when it's finished, if all goes well.

[@Raptoria]

Excellent! Thank you for the reply and best of luck on the channel.

[@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791]

I hope collosal order include more tools for cycleability, pedestrianisation, mixed use and better zoning in cities skylines 2.

[@SamuelKristopher]

When making those roundabouts, lay a straight road first and make a + shape, then use the curved tool to create perfect circles. It's maddening to watch you try and hand-draw those roundabouts, even though you do it exceptionally well all things considered :P Also, if you do the straight internal "guide roads" first, then attach the external roads to it, you avoid that situation where the roundabout spontaneously disfigures itself. Only delete the internal guide roads if they are creating snapping problems or once you've added all the external ones. Cool city though - I'm glad to finally see a KZbinr on City Skylines who doesn't have square grids in 99% of their city.

[@SuperVipers]

Finally someone who makes a nice looking dutch city

[@meaghan_rebecca]

I never realized before how similar the road layouts and houses in the Netherlands are to the UK (or the part that I live in anyway!) Looking at the city from above with all the red roves looks EXACTLY like where I live!

[@DJHGaming]

+Meaghan Rebecca yeah we both have rounderbouts America just has junctions

[@BrotherO4]

+DJH Gaming as a american, i have only seen 2 roundabout, we are getting there

[@agarman6695]

Speaking of similarities, does this guy sound British to you?

[@750joshua]

Agar Man I see what you mean, but the Dutch are known to be exceptional English speakers (probably due to the similarity of the two languages, but that's a conversation for another day), probably better than most native speakers!

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

Do y'all also use shit tons of bricks everywhere?

[@XcelentTom.]

Prerequisite for Dutch cities: The amount of bicycleroads needs to be equal to the amount of normal roads.

[@agonbeq6482]

Amazing amazing amazing timelapse great i have waited so long for this please keep it up great road system just perfect and awesome :)

[@Freakschwimmer]

Holy crap! This is amazing, I was thinking of doing something similar for a German city ^^ You sir have earned yourself one eager subscriber!

[@anamiguel1429]

Netherlands is a country with germanic influence. It is natural that there are similarities. As in the central european countries.

[@XError40404]

Apparently people in comments don't know what population DENSITY means...

[@Heligoland360]

KZbin's population is pretty dense.

[@Aeregon]

You could have looked at how cities started in the netherlands. Put a church next to the big main road. call it "Kerkweg". Then add a smaller road in the pother direction called "Dorpsstraat". add the main square called "marktstraat' (or something like that). And ofcourse the "stationsweg", randweg, industrieweg ect. most towns started with that. from there on the "dead end streets" areas start. From there on the districts are dedicated to a theme. like streets with painter names, tree names, famous people names. apart from that, looks pretty accurate.

[@marcuslaffey1637]

cities:skylines has returned!

[@heneagedundas]

That's a very promising start to the series, I like what you're doing. I see similarities in those road layouts to what we have in new developments in the UK.

[@stillbornafrican373]

Wow! a KZbin channel appears on my recommended section that I'm *actually* interested in! nice video mate

[@Silvarret]

+KZbin Bloke Thanks! ikr, for me it's always endless Buzzfeed, prank videos and celebrities, good to know my channel actually gets recommended, too.

[@Chmielok]

omfg, it looks fcking amazing, those curves, those houses, suitable for public transport, that amount of roundabouts... perfect

[@DieyoungDiefast]

I know what you mean when you talk about the way the roads are set up. I remember a great time I had back in the 80's in a lovely place called Venlo. What got me was when walking under the motorway into town from the Pub we were camping at, there was very little noise even though there was a lot of traffic. You're also like us Brits in some ways, lots of small roundabouts on minor roads (but with more style ) Looking forward to see how this develops. :)

[@Cyrath89]

Nothing better than to play a game and have a good Muse or Blur song on!

[@fenlig]

Man that's art. Irish town/city expansion is less planning and more firefighting, pretty much how I play cities skylines.

[@VOERDEWCEEND]

Yes, you're gonna make a downtown like Zwolle, Den Bosch, Deventer, Breda, Nijmegen, Gouda. I'd also like to see a little Amsterdamish shape of city with the road system. :) Also very Dutch, alot of one-ways...

[@julienhopmans9031]

Or the binnenhof in The Hague

[@VOERDEWCEEND]

I wasn't talking about the building style Thatfrenchguy12 , but about the shape of the downtown with the old ramparts.

[@RayXVisiona]

+Jordi Valies I bet you do not want it because of the road system, I bet you want it because of "de wallen" :O

[@StanFRSuri]

or just fully rotterdam

[@VOERDEWCEEND]

Rotterdam... De lelijkste cultuurstad van Nederland door de Duitsers... Nee dankje.

[@mikethinks]

I think Cities Skylines is a Dutch city layout trainer! Because of the way it handles traffic, I started to design my cities with non-through neighborhoods. Amazing.

[@Silvarret]

+Mike James Yeah, it works pretty well for it! Making roundabouts is a less easy task than it should be though, turbo roundabouts are impossible and the game AI doesn't know how to handle a two-lane roundabout :/ - lacking on a core feature of dutch town planning, there.

[@hernandezpiras4168]

Congratulations! This is the most perfect and realistic city I've ever seen in the Cities Skylines videos.

[@Silvarret]

+Hernandez Piras That's a pretty big thing to say and I'm not sure I'd agree, but thank you :)

[@WasephWastar]

Since I watched the YT channel notjustbikes for the first time I always wanted to do a dutch city but I always failed. I love your design

[@ShiftyMcGoggles]

I'm watching this, and just...My ocd is loving it. Its rejoicing.

[@dean1100110]

the Dutch way of building, the same as UK but with straighter Rhodes road and and less "that'll do"

[@ThemeParkNetYT]

This is great silv. I think you're finally off to a great start in CS 👍🏻

[@Silvarret]

+QuinnSourMouth Thanks! I think so too, I can't stop playing 😂

[@RobinRense]

1:06 Haha, that line had me in fits 'n giggles xD

[@ashleigh6389]

i love the road layouts! keep up the good work and im excited i found this video and i cant wait to see more!

[@sintsmeding2371]

This just appeared in my suggestions. Really miss this series!

[@yellowstonethepony7769]

ROUNDABOUTFEST IN THE NETHERLANDS!

[@thomstal3626]

Ow wow, dit is zo geniaal bedacht als series. En alles klopt ook echt met wat je verteld. Vergeet dan niet de vele buslijnen en duizenden spoorwegen.

[@Silvarret]

+thom stal Danku! De vele buslijnen komen er zeker, maar ik houd de spoorwegen wat bescheiden. Bovendien is wat dat betreft de NL nog lang niet zo erg als België, maar nu je het er zo over hebt - een rangeerterrein zou best goed passen in de stad, dat zal ik nog 's proberen.

[@GuoZeOscar]

Awesome! It looks great when you set all the houses' to same style inside an area!

[@TalesOfWar]

This is very similar to a lot of suburban developments built here in the UK in the late 80's and early to mid 90's. Full of winding roads you can easily get lost on and trapped because of all the dead ends haha. They work great from a traffic point of view, but they're a pain in the ass getting in and out of the things, especially if you're house is good ways from the main road.

[@jonathankotterink1754]

Dutch pride! I love your videos and this one in particular hahah, keep it going kerel!

[@Declassed]

thanks to this video i got the feel to just go and drive around the city and check your way of seeing the road layout XD

[@kidicarus1998]

I'm loving to see someone taking effort in recreating our home country :D helemaal geweldig! ;) keep it up

[@Silvarret]

+kidicarus1998 Thank je! :)

[@wingbull2009]

And sound barriers, us dutch people hate motorway sounds.

[@Silvarret]

+wingbull2009 Lol, good point. Can't seem to find any of those ridiculously large glass panels for sound barriers, though. I've been thinking about using large grass hills instead.

[@thiemeuitderegio7681]

Je voert je idee echt fantastisch uit! He lijkt echt veel op Nederlandse nieuwbouwwijken. Ga zo door. Je kan ook proberen om een stadscentrum als Rotterdam te maken. Door het bombardement zijn er weinig oude huizen overgebleven en ben je dus niet afhankelijk van de workshop.

[@MattWesss]

Heel netjes gedaan!! Lukt het allemaal goed met de doorstroming van het verkeer? Ik verwacht namelijk dat een enkele aanvoerweg voor een wijkgedeelte alsnog vrij druk gaat worden.

[@delta12H21]

Erg gaaf gedaan. Ik woon in Almere en het is zeker de zelfde soort stijl! Ik ben wel erg benieuwd naar die rijtjes huizen mod. Ziet er een stuk geloofwaardiger uit meteen!

[@Dutch_Chucky]

just some days ago, the first fully working and animated drawbridge is uploaded on workshop. now we got the Rotterdam and Amsterdam canals working 100%

[@irmscher9]

Netherlands in one of the cleanest countries I ever seen, the infrastructure is awesome and the country looks beautiful, especially the countryside. However what I've heard from the locals is that the taxation system is just horrible where in some cases you pay 70% of your salary in tax, most of locals drive those old shitty 1.0L cars because of the insane insurance costs. and also the immigration policy hurts.

[@thunderslasher8226]

Sweden is I think cleaner

[@irmscher9]

+Papa John's Pizza Inc. Nope, definitely not. But Sweden hasn't got such a dense population which makes it a more interesting country in terms of travelling actually. I prefer wild nature like in Finland, Sweden and Baltics more than high density, hand made parks and fences all over the place.

[@SianaGearz]

+Blah b Some people also count mandatory health insurance under "tax", so you could indeed be left with relatively little, but this really only applies to people whose financial needs are already covered, i mean the minimum living wage is completely untaxed etc. so poor are only moderately burdened. I don't know how it is exactly in the Netherlands really, i live in a neighbouring country, i suppose it's similar enough. It is to be said though, i have high degree of confidence in the system and am not bothered that most of the money i earn goes away, it goes to support the important infrastructure and decent living conditions for everyone, keeping us safe and satisfied. There are of course numerous things that can and should be criticized, but on the whole, it's a great way to live. Recently though, there has been a push to "liberalization" and i dislike it, besides being a misnomer, if pushed too far, it would destroy our overall standard of living for the benefit of the few, and i just hate seeing unhappy people who can't get their ends to meet at all and whose basic needs are not met.

[@glitch43matrix63]

+irmscher9 very moeilijke woorden kannnot bijhouden wat you zeggen.

[@irmscher9]

+Siana Gearz Yes, it's what I call "social oriented democracy". Democracy is a crap word recently, I really dislike it lol, it's overabused while there's seems no real democracy apart may be from Switzerland.

[@thomasvos6765]

Awesome stuff you did with the canals for the downtown. I suppose it is like the old moat for a (star) fortress.

[@Silvarret]

+Thomas Vos I didn't create the map itself, credit for that goes to Zakerias (aka -Z -) :) I think it is indeed, and it looks a lot like Willemstad in shape - which I suppose I may model the inner city after, though I'm not sure if I want to have a wall too, to make it look more like a fortress.

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

Everytime I try to build a city in Cities Skyline I kinda surrender at some point and look at Dutch cities after it to feel even worse. Alkmaar, Heerhugowaard... you can basically just scroll anywhere and it looks like some crazy mathematician painted a street network based on his favorite wave function. It's not a basic grid, but it's so extremely structured, even when it's not just some symmetrical form. I mean look at the neighborhoods around Middeldijk near Rotterdam. Most of the structures don't even repeat, but they fit so nicely together.

[@WontonTV]

The way those neighbourhoods look is pretty similar to Calgary, Canada. Though they don't build roundabouts over here...

[@RidesSlidesFlights]

Ziet er super uit Silvarett! Super strak en realistisch, zoals we van jou gewend zijn ;)

[@Tricion]

dit is voor mij het eerste persoon dat een nederlandse style stad maakt

[@Cythil]

Basicly as I understand it Dutch cities are laid out after the tree hierarchy road structure which is a pretty common way to design new city areas today around the world. Where you try to avoid having traffic go though you neighbourhoods, but have large central roads connecting each region. I find this way of building cities in Skyline better then the grid system as if you build a American style grid city you get a lot of traffic congestion. Which is actually a problem with real cities to and why the tree hierarchy style cities have gained more favour in resent years.

[@UndeadR]

What is name of this map?

[@baristezel154]

I'm currently on exchange in Amsterdam, and I love Dutch city planning. It is done so well, I am quite sad that I have to return to the US soon haha. Fijne dag!

[@benjaminkjellgren3374]

Im in love with the road design O.O

[@psionic_gamer]

Great series! i am actually planning on making a city based off the road-plan and geographical location of my homecity Arnhem, but i will be adding my own twist to it. i'm hoping to make a Dutch style city allthewhile applying ideas and inspiration of Yuttho's Astergea series to it. i guess this series and the Astergea series convinced me to get back to seriously playing C:S xD

[@Swordie100]

I feel you have so much freedom in this game.. I should try it when I'm done with my 1387 other games..

[@ItsIdaho]

Idk if my Eyes are that good. But that Timelapse speed is literally fine for me.

[@olepost3643]

I love this series! It reminds me of Fluxtrance's style of video! It seems like you guys already had contact, judging from the comments :) I'd love to continue making assets, and also make some Dutch assets for CSL, but I need to get my PC fixed first. Subscribed, of course ;)

[@Arhnuld]

This looks fantastic, does anyone know which map theme this is? My cities never look this colorful

[@siemenduijzings7962]

ik onder deze serie nu pas, 2 jaar later bijna, maar welke map heb je gebruikt voor deze serie. en hoe kom je aan die wegen, ze zijn zwart, en in de normale cities skylines is alles grijs. verder heel gaaf om te zien hoe jij binnen een paar minuten een echt typisch Nederlands wegennet in elkaar zet. super tof!

[@Theguy22958]

Well, I haven't seen any Dutch town with such neat road layouts.

[@yourirutten625]

You could make the middle bit (you wanted it to be downtown) a big castle, since we do have a lot of them in the netherlands. Also they have this sort of ditch, canal thing around them wich you could create out of the water surrounding the middle bit.

[@Jansay34]

Damn... my cities are never this good. :( And the traffic's usually a nightmare. I still haven't got the gist of categorizing my roads; that is to say transportation roads, linking roads and small roads. How da hell do you manage that?

[@pwnzomg]

I love dutch cities. what I have noticed after living in Britian for a few years is that the detached houses are quite similiar to the dutch ones. maybe you could look for UK Assets in the Workshop and try those?

[@Silvarret]

+pwnzomg Thanks for the tip, I have got some UK detached houses that I want to put into action sometime soon.

[@kyleinsley]

+Silvarret , you used a square brush from within your tree menu to paint a concrete area in and i noticed many other textures.. What would this mod be?

[@iycgtptyarvg]

This makes me think it would be fun to recreate my own Dutch city (Zoetermeer). I don't actually own the game, but I presume the building area allowed in the game wouldn't be enough. Or can you go as big as you want?

[@jonmacnl]

What map did you start out with or did you make your own? I live in Enschede!!!

[@kilésengati]

I love to build cities like this in CSL. It is not that uncommon in Germany either to structure new neighbourhoods like this. It is reminds me a lot of automatic handscript in arts. Having neighbourhoods with only some connections to main roads isn't that uncommon in the US, too. The difference is that in Europe they try and often need to adapt it to the landscape and more often curvy, existing main roads and the planers keep cyclists and other pedestrians in mind.

[@PaconskY]

Kinda reminds me the Soviet road layout. I live in Riga, and the part of the city with all the Soviet blocks, is laid out the same way.

[@firewarrior776]

"Unrealistic amount of roundabouts". Has clearly never seen Craigavon.

[@tr33c21]

tip, upgrade the roads inside the urban part of town to streets with red buslanes, they'll look like cycle paths, which are iconic on dutch streets.

[@Silvarret]

+ツリージェンﾈ I think I'll upgrade the pedestrian paths along the sides to bike paths instead tho, more realistic to have cycle paths seperate from roads in the NL

[@tr33c21]

Silvarret makes sense

[@Rice_NL]

Netjes man! Prachtig hoe je die wegen maakt. Ziet er zo simpel uit maar ik weet dat het niet simpel is :)

[@torbendevries8974]

Het centrum. Lijkt op dat van Zwolle sws heeft het veel weg van Zwolle. Hele mooi gedaan!

[@atalyy]

Netherlands! Awesome country! :D

[@pizzapunt55]

A litle pointer. Everything is planned out, even the old parts. The documents may be very old but they do exist.

[@rulipari]

Nice video, and Idea. But I'd really like to know, how the map is called. It is a very nice one.

[@rochelimit55555]

Can you make a typical 17th century Dutch city? with canals and all

[@Evo2an]

so when you talk about *wink* that *wink* you do it after a couple of thousand years?

[@9999-b9l]

The way you talk in about the Dutch cities, I'd say you're from the same town as me :) Almere perhaps?

[@SimonvanGenderen]

Keep this up! Can't wait for episode 2!

[@christopherwood9009]

Is there an aerial view of the bare road system that you're using?

[@thejamesthird]

Finally another dutch person with the same english accent as me!

[@AndrewDBarker]

What LUT are you using in this video?! It's beautiful!

[@DoubleYouTee]

Silvarret did you know your city got featured in a TED talk?

[@KenanRaptor]

Let me give you a small example. If you look ar NYC Los Angles Las Vegas etc from above, you’ll see only squares and triangles. But if you look at dutch cuties from above you see artwork.

[@CUfkes]

Had nog nooit van je gehoord dus ga me interesse deze serie bekijken ;)

[@hippocampje]

Dutch Road Textures: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=526126314

[@Silvarret]

+hippocampje I actually have it, but my darkr roads mod cancels it out I believe - but thanks anyway, I'll still see if I can get both to work, dark Dutch road textures would be amazing.

[@kealiiballao]

thanks for your hard work. after i visited the Netherlands, I've been wanting to do something like this.

[@tims0l]

this is a piece of art!

[@PhilipWarda]

Wow! This is probably the highest complement i can think of but - Finally someone on par with Flux. Theres so many annoying/stupid/slow/bad cities players (sorry to hate but I just struggle to enjoy their content) and I've been looking for ages for someone in the same category as Fluxtrance and Yuttho. Congrats Silvarret, you've earned a loyal subscriber, liker and commenter :) Keep up the beautiful work!

[@Silvarret]

+Philip Warda Thank you, as a viewer of both Fluxtrance and Yuttho that is the highest compliment I can think of, too :)

[@PhilipWarda]

+Silvarret You deserve it man! I don't know if it takes talent or dedication to making each episode interesting but whatever it is, you've got it :)

[@PhilipWarda]

+Silvarret Also I've watched Flux's and Yuttho's series multiple times over and I need MAWR CITIES haha

[@hiddeveldman2697]

is deze gap nou nl of weet hij heel h goed hoe Dordrecht en Amersfoort eruit zien

[@Toreno2k]

There actually aren't that many Dutch. Around 16 million. For comparison, Germany has a population of 80 million and Japan 127 million. It may seem like there are a lot because the country's so small, the population density in the Netherlands is quite high. Anyways, love your videos, keep it up and cheers from Germany. :)

[@MartjanDee]

Hoi! Ik heb die nederlandse huizen ook van de steam workshop gedownload, maar als ik de boel ga zonen. Dan komt er maar 1 type huis, dat was het rijtjes huis. Maar ik zou de andere ook graag willen de verschillende huizen zeg maar! Weet je soms hoe ik dit op kan lossen? Ps toffe video!

[@zechariahellis]

how did you pick the house you wanted to use and only have it use that one?

[@i_am_feenster]

that amount of roundabouts isnt that unrealisic in newer cities and town, I would even say that you need more of them :P

[@turuksugamer5286]

Dit is zwolle toch? De plek met grachten waar jij de downtown wilt is precies als de downtown van zwolle, maar ik weet niet of die rivier er is

[@Humance]

There's a mod called 'some roads' that has some paved roads but if i still remember well they have weird colors :| anyway check that out.