Unlocking the ULTIMATE Realistic City Building Potential in Cities Skylines 2

We're continuing our expansion of the sort-of realistic north American-themed Riverview Metropolitan Area - this time with the implementation of MODS and Developer Mode! We start out developing a high-rise hotel, as per the decision of the Riverview City Council (you guys!) on our community page vote - and make heavy use of developer mode to make a public square next to it with recreational space. We then move to an inner-city district near the waterfront, upgrading a high-wealth area by plopping some truly beautiful turn-of-the-century New York-inspired condo buildings and creating a custom pavement path with trees! We finish off by creating a once again New York-inspired public housing project on the outskirts of New Chelsea (former Chestnut!). Hope you enjoy!
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[@Infrastructurist]

I can't wait for you suggestions for the questions within this episode! And I would appreciate a Like 👍 if you enjoyed the video! 😊 This video was made available as Early-Access to Patrons at www.patreon.com/infrastructurist Hope you're all having a great weekend 🥰 Infrastructurist

[@henrylike9211]

I think it should become some sort of high rise.

[@Shlam26]

Lower east side. What a creative name! I was dying 😂

[@car7605]

21:04 I think it could actually be the exact same tower (IK maybe its hard to do), as we often see in big commercial projects like this…

[@user-nv3ov6sw8q]

Hi 😊

[@vedants.vispute77]

You cant have a high-rise directly next to river corner.. High-rises have a base foundation. You should make a beach along the way to make to more realistic..

[@CyberSumeriann]

I think in the corner next to the hotel you could have a really fancy restaurant. It would make sense next to the water and next to the expensive hotel..

[@just_luk4238]

My exact thought

[@32bitintiger999]

Perhaps a small restaurant pier would be wonderful, and the construction site could be replaced by a pool for hotel guests

[@thecrashwizrd8188]

I love this idea, also, 69th like

[@FD-vj6hd]

Chestnut heights would be a good name for the public housing. Nice nod to the old name of the area (in the story it could have been named before Chestnut was renamed). Plus they are almost chestnut in colour. Here in Scotland public housing blocks like that are often called something heights.

[@rynoleroux8843]

The demand for more housing and the noise of the high-way close by made the area unattractive to home owners and thus it was decided to turn the area into a public housing district. Chesnut heights is indeed the perfect name for the district IMO.

[@sal-the-man]

that is a nice name

[@ljmusg]

Great name.

[@Manj3nkins]

If we’re taking inspiration from NYC. Chestnut projects or Chestnut houses would be more fitting

[@hardhatlunchpal]

Also a nod to the auto generated name it could be called the "Bird Box" or "Bird House" by the locals because it, like many housing projects, houses people for life. And it being government housing there are many loud and mentally ill people living there, the birds.

[@LadyLucyna]

This video is the first time actually seeing the developer tools in action, they're incredible! That just makes me even more excited for what is going to be possible with mods in this game. Also, is it just me or does the hotel have way too little parking? I think a hotel of that size would have way more than 10 parking lots, that's barely enough for the employees. I know it's kind of boring, but wouldn't it make sense for the rest of the lot to be primarily parking?

[@Infrastructurist]

Yeah there is lot's of potential! Also the hotel actually has an underground garage with an entrance gate, which is functional and used by vehicles ☺

[@juris6878]

American detected

[@NJHProductions512]

haha@@juris6878

[@lateteracientifica8726]

Also you could build the parking if you wish, but it is best to reduce traffic by using public transports near

[@NJHProductions512]

Well, that doesnt allow for nearly as much flexibility.@@lateteracientifica8726

[@r00kie36]

Also, the new public housing district definitely needs some better accessibility. Either a train station in walking distance or maybe an express bus line between it, new chelsea down town and the nearest train station

[@guybegin7023]

Cool to watch. No public transport for such high-density development :(? I would love to watch an episode dedicated to making a great public transport service all around the city. Thanks

[@swizz1x375]

I agree a perfect chefs kiss to this city would be a amazing transport system

[@ekeryn]

Please! I would love this. Expand the tram and train infrastructure. I know it's an American city so it's car centric, but it would be amazing to see.

[@thecrashwizrd8188]

No way, 69 like here as well

[@theusername000000000]

You want a nice city. The cattle cars are for the poors. Just make sure there's no street parking.

[@jonas6259]

I mean it's realistic....

[@Infrastructurist]

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[@TheBonnieCat]

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[@henrylike9211]

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[@Infrastructurist]

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[@Kearbyfireworks]

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[@joanlahoz5732]

Something like a conference center would make sense right by the hotel

[@mallysh1998]

It’s sooo great to see you making something custom😊 it looks definitely amazing! Just a small remark, there is only one car entrance to the new Low rent housing complex, which will 100% create troubles for those living there, especially with 0 public transit😅 anyways, enjoy it so much as always!

[@nyosis_tv]

Now the real magic begins, new zones look sick ! It’s been a long time without public transport update, I think it might be a good thing to extend the network in near future. You can add invisible paths to your custom area so NPCs can actually walk there (they seem to be a pain to remove though)

[@trayambakchakravarty]

Public transport is definitely so mething Ireally want to watch

[@khalidalotaibi1072]

I have two suggestions. The first suggestion is that the public housing district can be called “New Hope” or “Hope City” or just “Hope” to be cringey on purpose. Most politicians can’t relate to normal people’s struggles but give public projects stupid names or slogans like “Hope will guide us through our hardships.” To “inspire” people without actually being helpful. The second suggestion is to place a hotel on the plot near the hotel. In my experience hotels tend to gather in close proximity to each other.

[@Wuzhles]

In North American terms (especially if you want to take Queens/Brooklyn inspiration) the low-rent housing is referred to as "projects". As such the apartments at 42:00 would most likely be called "the projects" by those who live there like how the Queensbridge Buildings and similar low-cost areas are in real life. So an interesting name to tie these buildings to the river could be the Bluegill Projects.

[@7697boem]

I think you should name the downtown district "New Amsterdam" after the old name of New York, it would make sense by the water with all of the old beautiful architecture! Especially with the city having so many references and resemblance to NY. Thanks for the awesome episodes!!

[@humanbeast2255]

I'd love it if you let one factory intact AO it is the last bit of industry in the old harbour. Maybe put a monument next to it so some tourists will go there. The story of the monument will be that it is memorial for an accident in the old harbour or the last ship that left the harbour

[@nvshhk]

Amazing episode! The public housing district could be named Cloverside Heights, since it's built right next to the cloverleaf interchange :)

[@mikkol3]

I think a possible name for the small expensive district could be "Dutch Quarter" referring maybe to the history of the neighbourhood and also inspired by the european/dutch style rowhouses that are located there

[@mikkol3]

For example it could be that these could be the remenants of a dutch settlement from the past, or a neighborhood where a lot of dutch moved when migrating to america (and implementing their own architecture)

[@vitae-studios]

Developer mode seems like a real game changer, and of course you made the build look incredible! Honestly the best build I’ve seen in CS2

[@Mr.McMuffin]

I grew up in NYC in one of those former Public Housing projects on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. There were two projects that were basically the same neighborhood called Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town as a nod to Peter Stuyvesant and Peter Cooper, Stuyvesant the former Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam, and Cooper a famous NYC philanthropist. I feel like the same of a famous person from Riverview's history, plus the word village or town afterwards would be a good idea for a name.

[@t.635]

42:18 Cloverleaf Towers!

[@happyaccidents156]

I love this series so much, and it keeps getting better. I've been using Riverview heavily as inspiration for my own city and it's really helped with understanding how to plan build without always relying on a traditional grid.

[@ljmusg]

The city needs a conference centre/events venue which would fit perfectly next to the hotel. Great episode 🎉

[@antonwulp]

I don't understand why that amazing surface painter is not standard in the game... It's the one thing that was needed in CS1 and this is even better!

[@alexhentschel1080]

i believe you can select an option to "bypass validation results" in dev mode if you want to place objects/ roads in areas where they would normally turn red/not place.

[@Jazz-Man1910]

I personally think that you should put a Vancouver-esque residential tower in the contruction plot. You could put a modern (but shorter) high-density commercial building, and then (using anarchy) you could put a modern glass residential tower inside of it. You probably should make the tower around 1/2 to 2/3 of the size of the hotel. Great video!

[@bitmau5]

I appreciate your approach to neighbourhood building. I personally think that the Birdsong Glade area might need some local shops, a grocery store and a fuel station, to fill out its completeness. Love the music as always, and thanks for sharing :-)

[@Karsuuue]

The developer mode really gives it the egde. Great work with the detailing, gives the highrise hotel way more flavour!

[@rynoleroux8843]

Thanks for the great video. I recently subbed to your channel and have watched every release since. Absolutely love the content. The area next to the new hotel is the perfect spot for a casino IMO. It's close to down-town and right next to the river providing great access and views, ultimately adding to the tourist attraction of the area and bringing in more tourists to the hotel.

[@callmenbxckets]

For Birdsong Glade, just call it “The Glades” as like a hint that it’s lower class, nod to Gotham city ofc.

[@ch1cky_br1ky27]

m so glad your slowly going back to your CS1 playstyle. those highly detailed builds are what make your videos unique and your cities stand out from the rest of the CS KZbin crowd in my opinion

[@Axtre]

Don't know if you've found this yet, but you can pretty much disable all the limitations in the debug console, so it's basically like you get both road and prop anarchy, the game will just stop caring about those placement blockers, like the "on water" or "collision" things, can't remember exactly what it was called on the debug menu but im pretty sure you can just google it and find it, allows for some really in depth detailing work

[@talknight2]

He already used it in this video

[@LadyPouffe]

LOVED it!! Riverview is my fav city on YT

[@beboutbidness9616]

I'll be honest. I enjoyed the episodes w/o developer mode. They seemed to flow better but that's just my observation. I'm not a fan of developer mode, I'd rather wait for the official modes to come out. That being said you do a tremendous job of creating content. I appreciate the time and effort you give creating content. Keep grinding bro!

[@vriskaserket8137]

You're the first bigger CS:2 content creator finally utilizing the dev tools/mods to do detailing and I really appreciate it.

[@Thatbasedbrit]

I have an idea mate: you should build a ferry service from the port through the suburbs and towards downtown to the airport, stopping congestion on the highways, and giving people and cheaper and perhaps Easier way to get around the city.

[@RonieStaack]

So much better to see you building with mods again, exploring your aesthetics talents once again. A truly miracle worker 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@chriswagner3392]

So good the Community can make up for what Paradox missed out on! Great vid!

[@_CJ_]

I have to say that all that small details look so good. I wish that it would be more accessible by vanilla game without developer mode... It is a lot of work but suddenly I can see real motives in there and not just bunch of houses that are too close together :) Great job! Thanks for video.

[@Silverjerk]

All the long time followers now getting super excited for the new guys, who maybe haven’t seen the insane Citiies 1 builds. You guys are in for a treat!

[@merijntax5764]

The Developer tool looks great! Very excited to see how Riverview will evolve with the detailing you can now add. And it's going to be even more lively when mods come out! Thank you for this great content, excited to see what will come :)

[@dannydissapeared3163]

i feel like o enjoyed a lot of riverviews simplicity and how good you made the city without mods and while i think mods are a freat addition i would definitely like to still see some old school style riverview episodes here and there

[@Tashorange]

Thank you so much for your videos! I get so excited when you post, I just sit on my couch and watch on my tv, makes me so relaxed🤍🤍🤍🙏🏼

[@grayone9sargent257]

Dude, you are having waaaaaay tooooo much fun detailing. Nice nice nice!

[@spxdersen]

Great builds! Dreaming of living in those downtown eastside buildings - assets are incredible looking.

[@vicpon3014]

When the public housing was planned and built between 1968 and 1973 no one cared of a name for the new quarter so it was simply referred to as the New Chelsea Housing Project. However shortly after the inhabitants started calling it “the Brick Wall” due to the appearance of its huge housing blocks. When in the late 90s on anticipation of the new millennium the idea arose to rename the quarter a public vote for the name was held. The clear winner was “The Brick Wall”. The name came into effect on 01/01/2000.

[@joelbyrum]

Feel free to change this story, but the new name for the Lower Eastside should be “Pizen Switch”. Here’s the back story…The district was settled by Irish immigrants, formerly nicknamed Whiskey Switch, due to being so close to the central train station and a local bar that was notorious for its whiskey but then quickly changed to “Pizen Switch” (irreverent nickname from back when that part of town was a transfer - or switch - stop; and the local whiskey was so bad that it was called "poison". "Poison" came out sounding like "pizen" because of local vernacular, and the name "Pizen Switch" just stuck.) The reason for the high prices might have something to do with crooked politicians and their dealings with the IRA, Irish Mob, and the Flanagan crime family. But we don’t talk about it. 🤐

[@veagabe]

Wow! I loved this! I should recommend this to all my friends!

[@LeverActionLarry]

Good stuff as always. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

[@danilanedzikau6929]

Great episode as always! In terms of modes I highly recommend Extended Hotkeys. You will receive not only Anarchy Mode with Alt + A toggle (which works basically as in CS1) but also more convenient hotkeys when building with networks.

[@scottsfowler]

Have you built a road maintenance facility yet? (I don't remember even though I literally binge watched all episodes in two sittings) The white on road tells you how worn the roads are. The more white the more worn which increases accident probability especially during bad weather. Just a thought. Love the series so far

[@AIeksejs]

Love the landscaping! hope in the future there will be an option to make stuff like this or forrests into working parks

[@EdzTech7]

Hotel area looking really good, however in reality a building that size would need parking for a few hundred vehicles at least.

Gotta say, this video really made this type of development grew on me. At first, when you were just explaining stuff I was a bit disconnected just making dinner and listening. But then (as someone who used to make houses on Sims with a buch os developer stuff and move objects on) seeing the results really made me want to try this out. Really good ideas! Hoping you can get your hands on some boats so that marina can look more lively though 😉

[@AsherCharles]

That’s was great bro - I’m excited to try out mods and developer mode

[@wes528]

Next to the highrise could be a large piece of public art commemorating the industrial heritage of old Riverview. I love visiting cities that show off their rich history and cool public spaces!

[@barisam35]

By far the most interesting and satisfying to watch CS2 series. Absolutely love your vision and work. On a side note, cool to know you're Danish! My sister lives near Copenhagen and I've visited many times. Just love everything about it!

[@homer1268]

name suggestion for Lower East Side - 'Simmons Burrough'; getting it's name from 'Lazlo Simmons', the first person to head west, and strike gold on a claim, which would later become part of the greater 'Riverview' area. The areas rich history, suits, as this is one of the wealthiest districts in the city.

[@AwesometownUSA]

32:01 the Lower East Side in NYC is locally colloquially referred to as “Loisaida” (because that’s how it’s pronounced by the Spanish speaking residents) - that might be a fun name for your LES area as well…

[@wicnym]

I suggest Thorns End for the low rent housing! I think the low rent housing is probably a bit of a thorn in the eye for the older residents in the area ;) and they kind of look like big thorns in the back end of the area towards the highway(perhaps a little bit of a wordplay for the less fortunate that have to live there) In Malmö, Sweden, the most famous housing complex is called rosengård, “Rose Garden” kind of😏

[@Jay-nk6dm]

awesome episode with the introduction of mods. i can really see how expansive the detailing is going to get in the future. cant wait for texture mods and map overlays

[@gp5313]

So happy to see riverview again!

[@Infrastructurist]

My mic was angled a little differently for this video so my voice may sound a bit different. And ofc... Many more votes to come!

[@MariusMilinski]

I was looking for a comment like this - was wondering if you're maybe coming down with a cold or something :P

[@antonvandijck1189]

I love that you actuallly add the social housing, making it look so much more realistic.

[@jimdotcom1972]

neat, good to see the detailing is back in the game. i hope you continue the series and continue to show all the vanilla gameplay though, i'd like to see a full paythrought of the game, unlock all the factories and showcase all the game mechanics.

[@chaos_monster]

Okay with dev mode I am just - WOW - didn't expect this to be so powerful

[@r00kie36]

For the public housing maybe call it something like Shamrock? Its backstory could be that many people from ireland moved there and the cloverleaf interchange they look upon reminded them of a shamrock :D

[@reinham]

Man I wish public housing projects looked that nice in real life. Sad that most have nothing but the building and some rundown parks

[@austinrenollet8235]

Hey Infrastructurist! New Subscriber here. For the old inner city port, maybe it could be redeveloped as a city service campus? It's very centrally located. Riverview can't really come alive until healthcare, fire rescue, and police service (maybe even garbage management) are an integrated part of the city's fabric. Just a thought! Thanks for the great videos

[@joshfold]

There should be an office tower next to the new hotel, and if there is space for another building, you could build a small apartment building, it would really fit!

[@AltruiSisu]

Midweek vid! Yesss!

[@patricksprague257]

I’m very excited to see what you do with these new detailing tools

[@SP_oo_K]

I would call the Birdsong Glade to something like "Project Cloverleaf" as it's a housing project and it's close to the cloverleaf intersection. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.

[@cruZak89]

Public housing district: Cloverfield. Buildings itself look like some, also near the clover highway thingy. Also some popcultural reference, since there is a horror/mystery franchise with that naming scheme.

[@briandanielson5818]

What a beautiful city. Nice work. Love it.

[@ShamFBR]

i look forward to your videos as they come out. found a new obsession watching! keep up the content!

[@artukai3831]

Great video!, thanks for using developer mode, it enrich the detailing. Also, regarding Cars, perhaps it's possible to add them as props?

[@artlexander387]

Maybe a modern museum, concert hall or theatre would be good next to the hotel :)

[@TheF0rseti]

As a father, I really want to see a proper big playground in next to your public housing project. Would be really pleased.☺

[@WhatsleftofTom]

Dude, nice! Love the construction site. Could you make a transit plaza with the trams? Or even just bussed

[@abcxyz091284]

Parking Lots & Parking Garages... Just a thought Great work as always Infrastructurist

[@chaos_monster]

I really like the approach of using vanilla to build up the city and re-develop parts afterwards with more details and modding

[@charlieboozer82]

A smaller building attached to the high rise hotel with a pool and lounge or something like that on the roof would have mirrored a real, downtown luxury hotel. In any case, nice work as usual.

[@rondys]

The Golden Triangle public housing district is so names for its proximity to the confluence of the three rivers.

[@fraponese]

Cloverwood Park could be a good name for the high density housing development, since it’s kinda nestled back in the trees along side the cloverleaf.

[@RethEldirood]

For Lower East Side, maybe name it the Historic Riverview district? Would help to explain the old style buildings *and* the high rent prices!

[@no_one_to_the_colonel]

Perfecto! U"re the best! Glad to see you playing favorite prop toys!

[@SaltyPO]

Huge building like that with 10 parking spots? Might as well have none. In north america we love our cars, so if there is any parking at all for that building it would be a parking garage. And for the public housing development, make it look shabby and call it Cabrini Green. Google the name, it had quite the scary history.

[@antoniozavaldski]

You can place the parking lot decals next to each other if you check "bypass validation results" in the dev mode options. This also makes it much easier to do quays since the game won't be nagging you about building roads on water, and lets you build stuff on top of other assets which is useful for places like the huge empty spot in the airport asset. It's basically like road/prop anarchy from CS1.

[@zebrahouse]

Love all your videos! Cheers from one dane to another 🇩🇰 Would love to see some special kind of housing in the mountains that could be some kind of old mine town or something, do your magic! 🎉

[@oystamanza]

We could call Birdsong Glade, The Pocket. We could imagine that there was a great dispute in the council for what to call this pocket of land so the residents just all call it The Pocket and the name stuck.

[@klaythey6738]

I came back to watch again because you taught me how to use the Home menu thanks

[@NJHProductions512]

Holy moly...This city looks great!

[@kylebagley8968]

I think the neighborhood (Birdsong Glade) should be called North Oak. It story can be that before the freeway this area was a thriving business corridor and homes with the Main Street being called Oak street. Then the freeway was built destroying their homes and businesses and were giving housing on the north side of the Oak street which is now the freeway.

[@ronansmith8381]

Call it castlemilk based on the new town outside of Glasgow that is famous for these leaky towers like this. Although they have taken most of them away now. The town had lots of cheap high rise towers put up in the 60/70s to replace overcrowded tennemants. Goes with the port town

[@thomaseyermann]

The corner could become a nice little pond with a lot of small details to complete the hotel complex

[@MarksmanMason]

I'm so glad your back to doing this amount of detail, I love this! It's crazy that the way you play CS2 is how the game should play. I'd love to see the devs gamify this into the baes game

[@zhiutukamemitoji1290]

Its so very relaxing to watch like i want to watch it while eating in my work place hahaha

[@muetterdini]

You’re an absolute legend!

[@donnysagala]

I hope that the tall building is on that empty lot, then in front of it a small building like a theater or park with seats on steps towards the sea. In the middle there is a landmark of Riverview City. Hope this helps your city get ahead.

[@maxmolidor]

I absolutely love your work with the Cities Skylines games. You make this look so easy, and it's not, I've tried to emulate. I think it would be absolutely awesome if you did a collaboration with City Planner Plays. You two together would make an absolute masterpiece of a city.

[@Evokyr]

The fact they already have a great working mod manager and some really game changing mods makes this game already much better!