Expanding the Old Town - Cities: Skylines - Altengrad #9

[@cadurevival6702]

That hospital converted to residential could be a mall in XXI century with a glass roof in the center. Idk, or an museum with glass like Louvre have.

[@Jessie-vm6kq]

Holy crap! It’s insane how big Altengrad is already, can’t wait for the next video.

[@sam7576]

Can you build a part in the city wich got bombed and got rebuilt after the war? I live in Vienna and we have a lot of places like this.

[@Akruas]

The city will be affected by war, probably not that much, like Warsaw or Dresden, but a couple of bombs definitely ended up hitting Altengrad too. I just need to figure out how to detail the "damage" done to the city and then we'll put new building there etc.

[@maciejtorbicz4086]

@@Akruas You can use small meteorites from disasters

[@mewosh_]

@@Akruas "not that much, like Warsaw"?! Every Pole triggered. 😤😂

[@nilsd4899]

@@mewosh_ He meant not as much as Warsaw or Dresden I guess. The old town of Dresden was completely destroyed.

[@Mauzzewulf]

@@Akruas “like Warsaw” Also Warsaw in the 40’s: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🧱🧱💥🔥🇵🇱🔫🇩🇪💥💥🧱💀🪦💥🔥🕍💥🔥

[@m322_yt]

Episode 73 was recently recommended to me and I am really enjoying this series so far after starting a watchthrough with episode 1. I don’t even know much about cities: skylines and have never played it before, but your videos are just very enjoyable to watch. Looking forward to the rest of the series, glad that I have more than 60 episodes to catch up on. :)

[@FolgoreCZ]

I think that the oldest bridge of the city should be right at the point where the dirt road going between the castle and town hills touches the water. It really makes sense for it to be as close to the town as possible and also to be protected by the castle, the castle and town would probably be founded there to protect a ford that was on a merchant trail there. You can add another bridge at the place where the trams are heading now, but that one would be from let's say 18hundreds.

[@Akruas]

That is unfortunately a place where the river is widest, so an old bridge doesn't seem likely, I'll make the bridge very close though.

[@GustafMedF]

This city just gets nicer and nicer.

[@lewismansah6479]

Hi Akruas I'm really enjoying watching you build Altengrad. It so good that it inspired me to start writing a story set in Altengrad in 1920s. I hope you don't mind. Anyway, keep up the great work and look forward to seeing the city project progress.

[@jura3443]

Jahmayne Cuffy If you finish your book will you publish it, as I would read it!

[@lewismansah6479]

Thanks @@jura3443. I would love to publish it. But we'll have to wait and see. But if you'll read it. Then I'll write it.

[@FeNexMuziX]

Me probably too!

[@thirty__five]

Really love the work you have been doing on the city! Keep the good work up

[@flameoguy]

I'm excited to see the nearby villages and towns be absorbed into Altengrad over time. Would be interesting seeing how they can benefit from the city's railways and eventual motorways.

[@JaydenDubbeldam]

In the 19th century was many factories can you make that

[@Akruas]

Of course, industrial areas are planed, just not yet, they will be a bit further away from these parts, but we'll get there eventually

[@Ratchet4647]

Akruas be sure to include rail access in the industrial areas. Coal and Steel infrastructure too. These three were essential parts of industrialization in Europe and elsewhere.

[@oskarskold3321]

do not forget an opera house

[@villaalmhill2039]

Really organic looking layout of the city, just like a real european city is formed. Good work on creating spots that are easily recognized and remembered, a thing that is not so easy when building more in a squarish kind of way which is the easy and more convinient way to do it, especially when you start playing this game.

[@kaeltiger7550]

Awesome work! At 1:08, what is the asset that you used to smooth out the intersection and remove the awkward bit of tram track? I couldn't find it anywhere in the workshop. Is it your custom one? And if so, would you be so kind as to publish it? It looks amazingly useful! Thanks =)

[@MCBlackCZ]

literally love this city!! Jsi borec! :D

[@Skruf138]

Maybe a memorial for the Franco-Prussian war could be good? If the city sent troops to the war naturally :) Great build my dude, love it

[@Akruas]

I download memorials and statues from the Workshop every chance I get, but I have never seen a memorial like that unfortunately, but I agree it would be nice.

[@MetroManMelbourne]

Just joined this series, saw this in my suggestions and watched the series from the beginning. Keep up the good work!

[@lunamcmanus5706]

I've been thinking about Altengrad and perhaps adding a Jewish quarter to the city is an idea? , such as the one found in Krakow for example? There are many cities in central europe with jewish quarters

[@ServantOfOdin]

Dang you are burning through the ages fast. I love it.

[@Ratchet4647]

I'm imagining that early in Altengrad's history small settlements arose on either side of the river, but due to the difficulty of administration across a large river, they were each governed separately. Eventually, once the larger settlement of Altengrad obtained the money, resources and know how to build bridges across to and administer their sister settlement, Altengrad absorbed it. This would be when the old town was all there was of Altengrad, long before it grew to its modern size. It henceforth became a district of Altengrad, retaining what was once it's town name. Now residents of Altengrad consider it as integral a part of their city and of the old town, as the old town itself, and residents of the district consider themselves fully fledged citizens of Altengrad. This district would include some limited government buildings like a town hall that would long ago have been converted to a police station, museum, etc. Do you like my idea for Altengrad? It draws from the histories of Budapest (Buda and Pest) on the Danube, Paris on the Seine and Constantinople on the Bosphorus. I wonder what you'd name Altengrad's sister settlement, now old town district?

[@rileymarieowens1490]

Just an observation, the part near the Church around 7:54 really reminds me of Karlovy Vary.

[@chrisgajete460]

Great work, but I feel the streets are somewhat not narrow enough. I live near Bayonne in southwestern France, and though I don't know if I can apply a comparison with central European medieval cities, the medieval core of Bayonne is relatively well preserved with mix of Roman, medieval and renaissance city walls still visible. And the feeling I get when I walk through it, it's its narrowness, something I feel missing in Altengrad. Buildings are four or five floors tall while streets are often just wide enough for one car, and with barely if any space for sidewalks. Notwithstanding, your work on Altengrad is still amazing.

[@chrisgajete460]

Of course, there is wider streets, two cars wide or with expanded sidewalks, but these are either main streets radiating from either the cathedral, churches or castles, or peripheral ones such as along river or the walls

[@mjcropeter1003]

That Region you woked on might be the monestary and hospital region in Germany

[@AmirLivni]

Loved the amount of cinematics at the end. IMHO the dutch buildings does not sit well with the rest, but I see what you meant that there are not enough assets.

[@panconpikito5589]

I Really enjoy this episode!

[@madao7865]

For these early time periodes, you could maybe activate the _free public transport_ and the _encourage cycling_ policies to have a little more pedestrian traffic and a little less cars.

[@maaaaaay]

I’m loving Altengrad so far, it’s so beautiful and a really interesting project. But, would it be possible to include some small alleyways within the next old town areas? The buildings are so close together, which looks amazing but I can’t imagine neighbourhoods like that having so few small lanes and spaces between the buildings.

[@derekbenoit3657]

Beautiful city! I was wondering. How do you make those growable buildings not dissappear when you place them? Mine just dissappear with some icon over them and don't get placed like plopable buildings like yours. Any guidance/help would be much appreciated!

[@Akruas]

steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2133705267

[@mewosh_]

I love this series. 😍

[@samborpuskas]

If you build a second station, it should be much more modern, in a modernistic style, together with the surrounding area, maybe look at cities like Gdynia in Poland or 'The Prudential' for some inspirations, the Prudential is actually a really good asset to use.

[@Akruas]

I'm limited by the stations in the Workshop, it sadly doesn't matter what I want it to look like, I need to use what's available. It also is going to be an end station, and there's only a handful of those.

[@samborpuskas]

@@Akruas Wow, I would have thought there would be many more, you really don't have a large choice. However, I still think that you should a modernistic/ Art deco area in your city, here is the asset I mentioned before: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1286099161&searchtext=prudential

[@Ratchet4647]

Sambor Puskas I don't think we'll be seeing art deco until after a lot of the city has been built, ravaged by WWII bombings, and cold war era buildings are erected. Then, perhaps.

[@samborpuskas]

@@Ratchet4647 I agree with the after the town is built, but I think that it would be build a few years before the war, as that's when art deco in Europe was at its best, whielest after the war, there will be brutalist buildings.

[@TonyUnde88]

Nice work. You should consider doing some farmlands village a bit away from the main city.

[@brodykladis8125]

I would lower the police budget so there is a more reasonable amount of police patrols on the road. The police lights, I felt, took away just a small bit from the cinematic.

[@jura3443]

Also when it gets 1940’s please add a cemetery for people lost in ww2 please like so Akruas sees this

[@reichtangleanschluss509]

I'm pretty sure if Altengrad was real city (or maybe even a microstate) it most likely would locate in near German-Czech-Austrian borders (most likely in Passau-České Budějovice-Linz region).

[@danielchera9214]

That's what I was thinking considering the architecture and history

[@ander4163]

I LOVE the series

[@phillipmcgough6282]

lovin' your work

[@joaopedromeireles7210]

May you share with us all the types of roads that you are using in Altengrad?

[@arsa_ju]

can you integrad the Gedächnisskirche in Berlin in too your City, but I don't now if it is in the Workshop

[@HendrikDaStar]

Altengrad = Amazing!

[@LMC2009DOTA]

I think it would be nice to place some public buildings like a Theatre (maybe a ampitheatre?), University, they would fit nicely in the old town

[@LMC2009DOTA]

Also, the first sports venue of the city, a small olympic stadium

[@cgpanda4282]

what about an very old university wich is expanding during the time?

[@xDogzYT]

what is the music 0:00

[@moglikowski6988]

where do you got the buildings from? i don´t find them

[@Akruas]

steamcommunity.com/app/255710/workshop/

[@clarksorenes7106]

Question, why Altengrad has many 🚊 trams ?

[@08peter1966]

I really like your work...like i said before...you make us regular CS players look like noobs. But i have some critisism with the church you made ( 18:42 ) I think it would have been better if you left out the intersecting buildings you put in and next to the church. IMO it would have been better to expand the graveyard on that side or made a garden. In my country(netherlands) and in germany churches are usualy build as stand alone buildings and rarely connected to residential buildings, specialy the older churches.

[@ulra7574]

in Spain it's normal the old churchs being connected with other buildings!

[@08peter1966]

@@ulra7574 ok...that might be so...but the map is set to be central europe

[@Fluetify1]

One question: why do you connect your churches with residential buildings? I have never seen this in real life.

[@riddlie787]

It is probably an inclosed monestary type of situation

[@Mg96ish]

Hello, what is the map?

[@AJ-or7ov]

Can you make a really big market

[@mikelherrero6160]

After you finish this city, can you build an spanish city?

[@Akruas]

I'm not sure about building cities from countries I haven't visited, it would end up very inaccurate

[@martinnolte1591]

I really love your work and your videos, but in your town there is no fire station and your town is big so you need more than one

[@jura3443]

Yyyyyeeeesssss

[@MCHLvisual]

Early bois

[@callume]

I really love the city, but is 4 minutes of cinematics not too much?

[@Akruas]

no

[@Ratchet4647]

You don't have to stay for the full 4 minutes of cinematics, they're the end of the video so if you close the video then you're only missing out on the cinematics. Akruas and others (myself included) really enjoy the cinematics.

[@jamesduston9292]

I would be content if this ended before the the 60's

[@jamesduston9292]

@Georg I simply do not care for late neo classical architecture let alone brutalism, modernism, nor even 'gigantic' or 'stripped' versions of above.