How to build a European City Center in Cities: Skylines | America VS Europe VS Asia Part 4.2

America VS Europe VS Asia - Building a City Center / Downtown in Cities: Skylines [Sunset Harbor DLC]
In this Cities:Skylines [Sunset Harbor DLC] video you can see me building the European city center. I'll give you many tips on how to design the most important part of your city. The first one is in an American Style Build like you would find it in the United States.
The second one is inspired by Europe, for example, Germany or France.
The third and last one is a build from Asia. You can find builds like that in japan or China.
For this video I used barely any mods...
This time: Fine Road Tool
Fine Road Anarchy
Move it!
Plop the Growables
Find it 2
Prop line tool
prop and tree anarchy
and some church assets of Titan!
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[@emeliehedstrom7770]

As a Swede who lives in Stockholm, these kinds of cities just have my heart in its clutch. They are so beautiful and the architecture is magnificent. So thankful to live in one.

[@1who4me]

Yeah never come to America. We are culturally debased out here.

[@TheRailwayMermaid]

Sadly I still didn't visit Stockholm, but I've seen a lot of videos and pictures from your city. And all I can say is yes, you're very lucky to live there

[@willthepenguin8683]

Can we all just appreciate for a moment how nice the vanilla european buildings are?

[@MidoriOtoko]

It is, nice 😂

[@noscopedjfk920]

trust me once you use use anything from Geze or Feinbuild you realize how shit they really are.

[@imperatur]

Tbh there are only like 10 of them and they are all... ugly😄

[@jas2800]

bro they kinda ugly

[@JacekWolnicki]

Try ones from Feindbild, Titan, Geze or Jens. Then you will change your mind what is nice. 😁

[@duailibi2]

Right when i was having problems with my european district.

[@imperatur]

Perfect timing 😇

[@dutchmapping1]

Don't forget you have different ''layers'' of the city, in the city centre there's almost always a railway station. The historic city centre is mostly made here, and a lot of offices are normally in this centre. Ofcourse there's an actual skyscraper centre in most European cities, but it is a bit further away. I'd also recommend building walls around the historic city centre, as it gives more of a historic vibe.

[@maku-9072]

fun fact: in Rome there are at least 3-8 churches per suburb, and in the most old neighbourhood have 10 to 20 churches. In the "urbs aeterna" there are 900+ of 'em

[@alexpetrov3289]

I am building a huge Vienna-Berlin-Cologne inspired city and this is so helpful! I had forgotten some of those amazing church assets and also some of the vanilla unique buildings. I would also like to add, that city centers have small buses or trolleybuses going through the pedestrian streets, as in Dortmund and Vienna, where due to historical and architectural reasons trams or other types of transport are not allowed to go

[@pietr1977]

I live in Europe, in parks there is much much more trees, they are designed for giving shade in summer. Sorry for may bad English, i'm from Poland 🇵🇱🇵🇱 [edit: they are not build only for giving shad in summer]

[@mbrackeva]

From Belgium here. Our parks are definitely NOT made for giving shade in summer. We have natural shade called clouds.

[@imperatur]

From germany here. We have a mix of shady parks and open spaces where you can play soccer or whatever

[@gameerman7898]

same,me from Spain,there are only a few churches where i live

[@pietr1977]

@@imperatur of course! I just want to say that for me, park should have more trees. I want to admit, that today there is popular convention in modern urbanism which says that we should build more gran areas in dense old town. I agree with you, that there are many types of parks but many parks in old town were made in XIX century, when park was the place where you can sit down on the bench witch your family. They covered desires of wealthy and poor population of the city, because that form of spending free Sunday were not popular for "normal" people. So, the conclusion is: that i don't want to say that every park need to be the dense forest, I just wat to say, that vision of 3 or 5 trees in park for me looks bad.

[@pietr1977]

@@imperatur I absolutely don't want to attack you or telling that your concept of building is bad or something. I just want to say, that I just like parks with more trees in it.

[@russoakes495]

Great tutorial! I’d add that although European cities have the historical core, there’s normally a modern element too with the office blocks scattered here and there. Arenas and conference centres can also be new additions which provide a contemporary outlook to the city.

[@namenamename390]

I think a mixture of zoning and plopping is most effective. The city center always looks better if the buildings are placed manually so that they fit together nicely, but suburban districts work well with zoning, especially if you have a good district style from the workshop or even a content creator pack like European suburbia

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

Looks amazing mate. I'm just getting ready to start up my European area, nicely timed 👌

[@zhanserikm947]

Egg is here love your content hope you're doing well

[@londontoffee]

Looking forward to seeing the Palaven European area! I play on console so can't achieve anything like Imperatur's effort. Can't wait to see you what you can do with vanilla approach.

[@imperatur]

Thanks mate! Great harbor build❤️

[@OVERCHARGEDEGG]

@@imperatur 😳

[@joshvickers4200]

These videos make my cities look SHOCKING in comparison omg haha

[@olasola1013]

Same, even if I use like 700 assets and mods and have been playing it since Autumn last year :(

[@flodi1756]

Good job , the vanilla zoning are very bad for European cities

[@imperatur]

Yes that’s true..:(

[@li_tsz_fung]

@@imperatur Zoning tools are made for strict grids, which is not very European, even when the dev is from Europe

[@FayotSonic]

I don't totally agree. The final picture is a bit ugly with game native european style, but it's realistic in its way. We should thank the dev team for having the though for special european buildings. Asia don't have any special treatment for example.

[@ihuvvvcuncur2617]

@@FayotSonic Maybe because the game was made in Europe and Europeans are influenced by their continent and North-America. Can't really complain when for example an Indonesian game would'nt have any European themed things in there. That's what mods are for, I'm pretty sure you can build a realistic Thai community for example in C:S if you used mods for it.

[@olasola1013]

@@li_tsz_fung Colossal Order is from Finland (Europe) and Paradox Interactive is from Sweden (Europe too) but who's the main developer?

[@Faintingh1]

Also one important thing with parks and buildings such as Operas, Theatres and such, they are very commonly placed in a ring around the city center where the walls used to be.

[@codizzlesdad3743]

this guy used vanilla assets and it still looks good!

[@mediterraneanclassic]

Can we take a momento to appreciate of how the music and the way Imperatur was putting the bushes almosted perfectly synced on 4:01 ?

[@olasola1013]

Much like the second song on "Modders dream city" episode 2 where they sing "Let's bring this up, let's bring this up, higher, higher" while Imperatur was raising container props to stack them

[@dadoulegrand5808]

Damn this city is amazing (: The European cities are always da best 🇨🇵🇩🇪

[@imperatur]

❤️

[@dadoulegrand5808]

@@imperatur are you gonna do the suburbs ?

[@Roger20241]

@@dadoulegrand5808 Wow, Nice idea! Please do that Imperatur! :D

[@nicksmans7109]

Yes! Finally! I've been so looking forward for this! Now please do it vanilla! Or make some beautiful vanilla city starts or highway exits or something! Love your work man! Keep it up!

[@dragonix4k502]

I love the style of the Mediterranean city of Italy, Spain and Portugal in which the streets of the cities connect without grids or perfect streets and they all intertwine with each other.

[@user-ib9pz6id5b]

2:00 The wall to wall look can be achived also in the european enviroment, or wit the vanilla european district style you can find in workshop

[@schnuckes9619]

Really nailed the look. Great work and inspiration!

[@isbenkitchen6663]

This inspiration is epic. Watching you and referencing google earth makes for epic german and french cities. This has also helped me build Japanese as well.

[@krabbypattyfartball]

That's really good work there! I haven't tried a European city in some time, but your videos always inspire to make things, like the small farming and fishing town, which I made something similar to

[@imperatur]

That’s great to hear!:)

[@guidoferri8683]

For a moment I thought you put a huge parking lot right in front of the city hall. That would be a big no-no

[@FayotSonic]

I have just finished my Méditerranean european city. Looks pretty good already. Altough playing in vanilla - no mods no dlc - I have followed many of your tips. The hardest is to be forced to create an unregular grid. Next time you should show us how to build a roms camp / favela / ghetto. I tried to make it, i would enjoy your viewpoint ! Nice job as always.

[@hopelesslynaive]

Does the default version of Cities Skylines offer the option of building a Mediterranean-style city? Excuse my ignorance if but I've actually never played the game but I'm thinking of buying it. Cheers in advance!

[@andersschulze768]

Mir gefällt das man direkt sieht wo die Altstadt ist und man erkennt auch wo früher bastinone waren. Sehr schön.

[@zsmaar1416]

It really does remind me of the town ive been living in for years, Debrecen, Hungary.:) Thanks for the video!

[@KalleBowo]

Yeah! The Dresdner Frauenkirche! I've been there a couple of times 😁👍 Anyway, great job as always!

[@-guest89-]

It's not even a tutorial, this is an oversimplified way to teach like 2 lessons of history😂

[@imperatur]

😋😂

[@nachoomanranchysalad790]

Video always done well! Keep it up!!

[@imperatur]

Thanks!:)

[@Guidest]

Amazing video! I want to more videos like that. It's an informative video.

[@slaying_all_the_time]

I always make europian city centre comfortable for pedestrians and public transport users and i build lot's of tram lines. I also build lot's of parks, especially near rivers.

[@andersschulze768]

Mir gefällt das man direkt sieht wo die Altstadt ist und man erkennt auch wo früher bastinone waren. Sehr schön. Edit: hier hat jemand in Erdkunde aufgepasst :D

[@Skibidy_rizzler_]

Es ist ein englisches video

[@stadt-undstraenbahntv4321]

Wow! Da kommt Motivation auf Cities:Skylines

[@ricomonsducis6360]

Ich würde so gerne die Frauenkirche aus Dresden auch auf der Konsole haben... Immer wieder schöne ‚Builds‘ von dir, mach weiter so! Grüße aus dem Norden!

[@rickpenningdevries8083]

Thanks for all your great content!

[@MrLynx777]

Look very nice, good job as always

[@cityfans5723]

You should make a behind the scenes video showing how you plan out your builds

[@ShayminLover492]

One thing worth noting is that in the 60s and 70s, many European cities tried to follow America's example of making themselves more car-friendly, since it was deemed the pinnacle of progress. Thankfully, they have since tried to fix that mistake, and from the late 80s onward, they have been taking steps to undo the damage dealt in the 60s. A prime example is Amsterdam, who has been doing these changes since the 90s, and now, they have become an excellent city to live in and have become a cycling mecca.

[@user-dc2ry9xp9d]

Super helpful, thanks!

[@spikespiegel6587]

Ye, I once fell into the rabbithole known as ploppable RICO. It started with a european train station asset, then a shopping center, then the last thing I know is that I am putting down individual high-density infrastructures.

[@unknownuser6182]

Love it, good job man. ✅

[@frawa1530]

Wie immer sehr schön. Daumen hoch!!

[@niccoloabate8519]

This video is wonderful!

[@waxmulf4322]

your city looks amazing, many places reminded me of my hometown

[@drag0s079]

Very good video. I appreciate your work!

[@imperatur]

Thanks!:))

[@christophscheuner4438]

Tolles Video!

[@lukaslyngas1805]

Wow, really usefull! But not suprised tho, its Imperatur! 👍👍😁😁Well done

[@imperatur]

Thanks ❤️

[@mrflaquir4]

your videos are such high quality its unbelievable.

[@edewaal97]

A tip I saw elsewhere is to only zone the first two tiles in a straight grid. That way there are no buildings with the ugly blank wall. Also there are no gaps between buildings and there are no parking spots on the backside, where there is no way for a car to get to.

[@humea2138]

Thanks for the upload, I was about to get coconut malled

[@imperatur]

😂

[@karliskronbergs6164]

Thank you! Finally a good European city tutorial!

[@Boaz_963]

I love this series! Can you do more of this?

[@eliudescalera7485]

Imperatur, You shuold try to make a LATAM city, i'ts like a mix of all the other styles. Great vídeo, greetings from México :D

[@leejones4497]

Nice video. I've started building European historic style cities, first few attempts went wrong for various reasons, present one - 'Veltenbos', going quite well but laggy due to mods + assets. I've posted a few short vids of parts of it on here.

[@thejvsgamer3289]

Yes I've tried, and it's awesome!

[@GRAVETH]

Wonderful

[@imanabdullah3263]

Splendid, or should I say esplendida!!!

[@IronmanGaming]

So beautifull. The problem with my pc is that my pc is so laggy when I add to much mods and assets :(

[@pavelspilka4039]

Very good work imperatur ✔✔✔

[@DingoXBX]

reminds me of Nice, France, wish to go there some day :). Love from NYC 🗽

[@mistern779]

I really love this!!! I wish this has a savegame.

[@blagoevski336]

Amazing!

[@Creatim3D]

It looks so cool👍👍

[@imperatur]

Thanks:))

[@davidburda1280]

YES YES YES FINALLY Thank you!

[@imperatur]

Yeah sorry for the long wait..:D

[@davidburda1280]

@@imperatur It was worth it!

[@SaifTutorials]

Yes, i started european city today and I'm gonna copy these things that's great idea🤩

[@filippomaccaferri7553]

great vid!

[@imperatur]

Thanks🙏🏻

[@ETBONIFACIO]

Alright, after I create my dream city in Alaska, I will build this.

[@ON-O]

This really does look like home!

[@comrade7947]

Masterpiece 😍

[@_no-one_]

it is looking so nice you are good at in this job bro

[@imperatur]

Thank you so much🥰

[@_no-one_]

@@imperatur nope bro

[@Wasbever_14]

Lets go!! I enjoy this and I think the as an European the Europe one was accurate

[@imperatur]

I‘m glad to hear that:))

[@Urinimohr]

Very nice Work :) I always try to make old european style towns. I prefer them to boring modern building style or skyscrapers. They are just much more divers. Thanks for the Tipps

[@PB-Trinity]

I built a full block in a 19/20th century modded style with a haussmannian layout : long streets and large bourlevards converging towards one big plaza surrounded by cultural and administrative buildings with a clock tower in its center. I also buit an old town island in a Renaissance (14/15th century) style.

[@i_am_blackwolf9304]

Nice!

[@haziqdanial03]

Beautiful 😍

[@DeKay1980]

Like you, i'm from Germany. I dunno why but this reminded me a bit of Trier. 😁 (oder sogar Köln, mit der wunderbaren Schildergasse.❤)

[@ArdFromRiA]

Well, I have to disagree at one main point - the "shopping line with no cars" isn't always true. For example, for Saint-Petersburg the Nevsky prospekt would be the main shopping line - but it's a mix of commerce, residential and offices. Sometimes in the same building. Same goes for other Russian cities and some Finland cities I've visited. So it's more like "Mixed zoning with bigger commerce %%", all with the car access(maybe without parking, for obvious reason of "too many cars, too little space"). From the game city sculpting perspective it doesn't really change anything. Maybe fit some resudential building here and and push 1-story height store into it, that would do the "small shop in the residential building" trick so popular in the above mentioned Saint-Petersburg. Otherwise - beautiful, as always! Thank you!

[@xDogzYT]

it's so beautiful im jealous

[@imperatur]

😋😋

[@danielw.2442]

Well done. 👍

[@imperatur]

Thanks!:)

[@trainman305team]

Yes, it reminds me of London in a way

[@guillaumebelfiore3665]

Great job ! Does the map you used on the Steam Workshop ?

[@JulienReszka]

Schools are often very next to city halls and fire departments and fire departments are very next to gendarmerie.

[@xDogzYT]

wow perfect

[@imperatur]

Thanks buddy:)

[@niallsomething3469]

YES THANK YOU!!!

[@imperatur]

Thanks for watching:)

[@hazarozkan8850]

Nice Video bra, Can you make a city like Doha or Dubai?

[@chrrytea2008]

Do you think you could make a continuation of the train stations idea and do metro of bus station Ideas , I am having a hard time trying to find ideas for stations. And KZbin is not helpful, btw awesome cities you are my idol🥺😍, also my alt little starz E!

[@CoolTransport]

nice!

[@imperatur]

Thanks😙

[@gyanendrasingh2003]

Nice video

[@imperatur]

Thanks:)

[@Nick-ux7zt]

Cities Skylines really demonstrates to me how different our buildings are here in Britain to those on the continent. The design is the same with old buildings and narrow streets in the centre with parks and market squares, a high street and then wider roads with a mixture of commercial and residential. Also, most of our towns and cities are on a river or at the coast. And the road layout is incredibly similar. But, all the European buildings just look so out of place in every British city I try to build (pretty much all of them).

[@Seo_D]

Asia will be very hard. all most Asian countries have at least one skyscraper. But, each country has own characteristics

[@littlestarze3272]

Do you think you could make a continuation of the train stations idea and do metro of bus station Ideas , I am having a hard time trying to find ideas for stations. And KZbin is not helpful, btw awesome cities you are my idol🥺😍

[@Milo-um1bo]

Honestly, I am building now only european cities. I'm living in central europe so it's easier to recreate something that i see everyday.

[@zacharytang3840]

I build Asian style tropical. I live in SEA, so it’s easier. There’s also tropic maps in vanilla, which making my zoning much easyer.

[@Heidrasworld]

Can’t wait to fix up my new pc to do something like this 😭😭

[@displayheadsmedia]

I'll have something to add (or better say to substract). Malls are farr away from the city centre. In most historical european city centers you'll never see malls because of the high land value. Otherwise pretty good. Also, most european old cities have a river that go through them.

[@toasttoast7489]

In the Uk (where I live) there are often shopping centres in the middle of towns and cities, although they usually don't have much car parking.

[@terezabezpalcova6529]

It depends if the country has socialistic history. Comrads loved to destroy nice historical buildings and smash some concrete mosntrosity instead.

[@displayheadsmedia]

@@terezabezpalcova6529 i come from one ex comunism country and in the middle of the city is a historical center eith pubs and little store, but not huge malls.

[@imperatur]

Hmm yeah maybe not directly in the old town but i think it also depends on wheter the city was destroyed in ww2 or not

[@displayheadsmedia]

@@imperatur yeah. I didn't think about that :))

[@denhkl88]

Yes, on console, it actually worked oit quite well (as possible on console, only the streets are to straight at some parts).

[@denhkl88]

Your old towm did work out very good!

[@rek-rek5490]

It's RIGA!!!!!! Wow cool

[@little_foxy9118]

American streets: Perfect squares European streets: Reeee we go everywhere

[@dh-pilot]

Always see the small and simple concrete road (without signalisation) but never find it in the game. Is it an asset or coming from a DLC? City looks great!!

[@user-vl7dl2hz8d]

4:01~ Music and movement are in sync lol

[@raceandchase]

Idk why but this city reminds me a little bit of Bremen.