Recreating a REAL 100 YEAR OLD UK PLAN in Cities Skylines (Timelapse)

Recreating a REAL 100 YEAR OLD UK PLAN in Cities Skylines (Timelapse)
In this video, we're attempting a faithful recreating Sir Ebenezer Howard's plan for Letchworth Garden City, England. The plans we're using are from 1924, showing the extent of the build out at that time. HUGE thank you to E6GSY for the map and @BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines for letting me use his asset collection!
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[@CityPlannerPlays]

Save can be found here - steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2787603729 (with lots of cheese so that ALL of the industries work as they should) Blank Map can be found here - (steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2751364425) HUGE shout out to E6GSY for the map and Biffa for the asset collection! Check out E6GSY's creations here - (steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198966593882/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710) Go check out Biffa's British build Blightea-on-the-wold if you haven't already! (kzbin.info/aero/PLR5G_Kc9r-JBHlYpmfs3aJzt90FX5_yu_)

[@itsthatoneguy2921]

Hey what program did you use to get the overlay that you traced out for your map? Thanks for your videos,they're awesome!

[@amarnathk9398]

Huge "should out"

[@amydartist9209]

Yes, I'm wondering too about how u traced with that overlay? I would love to use something like that!

[@dudster_]

fun

[@Covet]

@@itsthatoneguy2921 Wondering the same thing, would be really handy for some of the saves I was considering making.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

That was fantastic. And great to see the first roundabout ever! Great job CPP :-)

[@smoovie6046]

Are we seeing your European city today?

[@paulhopkins8391]

Shouldn't you be done more work on your English builts Biffee ;-)

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Will we see you build a garden city in Blightea-on-the-Wold? 😉

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Thank you, Biffa! And thank you for letting me borrow your asset collection!

[@PhilRiphagen]

Fun fact about that roundabout cause it’s protected by various building laws the roads leading up to it are in class condition the roundabouts like the surface of the moon though 🤣

[@greygowder5558]

I'd love to see a planned development like this pop up in Clearwater County and see that contrasted with a rival New Urbanism project in Ashwood.

[@garrison.s.9639]

I’ve been trying to say the county needs to get more than just 20,000 people especially since Ashland is such an old town now. I don’t know the last time he went to try and get more density.

[@CityPlannerPlays]

The next city will be... For real, not the April fools one

[@AstrumG2V]

While I love Verde Beach and Greenwater County as much as the next, I really hope CPP keeps doing these! It's a little bit of history realised and brought to the masses, and I love it! ❤❤ The only thing I'd love to see added is a little talk at the end, doing some analysis on what had to be changed to make it work in the game, and maybe weird or interesting design choices that stand out.

[@ralfnuggs165]

Yeah the added little talk. Cpp got the most relaxing voice... puts me to bed like a lil baby

[@dontnormally]

If you haven't checked out @donoteat01 's series on franklin from pre-history to present, definitely do! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYXJpnRonb2cbtU

[@CityPlannerPlays]

I actually wanted to do that for this one, but didn't have much of a voice. I'm going to do so on the next one!

[@DeadlyDan]

My town is one of these green cities, the layout is unmistakable. It's a wonderful place to live, not many places in the UK feel quite like it.

[@CityPlannerPlays]

I can imagine! I would totally live in one of these communities!

[@ValePlaysGames]

Would love to see a UK/European themed city or region build on the channel. Being from the UK it’s great to see the local architecture and city planning style on the channel

[@rivers169]

Wow, it's so great to see you building a European city. Perhaps in the fututre you could have thematic modded builds, just like Clearwater County, but for european or asian cities?

[@user-oz5wt5jk9y]

That would take alot of intellectual effort

[@CityPlannerPlays]

@@user-oz5wt5jk9y You nailed it here. This build was started about a month ago and I have mistakes that kind of bug me. It made me really appreciate how European/Australian creators make such great American cities. Imperitur and 2.20 especially!

[@user-oz5wt5jk9y]

@@CityPlannerPlays well they make such great American cities because American cities aren't very "unique" in ways that make the brain work. Lots of grids, and a utilitarian and on many cases corporate design philosophy. Where's many European cities, you need to build the town literally from the Roman Era and expand on it over 2 thousand years.

[@nicholasleverton8983]

As someone who used to work in Letchworth, this is great to see!

[@_starfiend]

Me too, back in 1989-92! (LET01?) Welwyn Garden City, not that far south, is just as fascinating in its own way.

[@nate9795]

As someone who's lived in this area my entire life, it's really odd!

[@BeckaBaka]

Beautifully and masterfully recreated. I love that you often switch things up in your content with not just your bigger cities/regions, but with also different projects and games as well as video lengths. Thanks for another rad video, looking forward to the next one!

[@JacksonOwex]

The craziest part is this is one of the shortest videos I have seen here(I'm sure there are more I just haven't seen them, I only started Cities: Skylines recently) but it probably took him more time to get done than the longer ones!

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Thank you! I love to mix it up and try new things! I love my series, but when you get an idea... I just have to go for it. I'm glad to hear that you like the change of pace!

[@livixxxhimym]

This was so cool! I hope you'll consider doing a British or otherwise European style full series in the future sometime - maybe it'll even give you some appreciation for cul de sacs :') Really though, the most interesting thing about CW for me is how the planning interacts with history, and the process of 'replanning' based on ever changing needs - feel like it would be a cool take

[@tonyhakston536]

CW?

[@livixxxhimym]

@@tonyhakston536 His other series, clear water county

[@nicewithacupoftea]

Really liked this and loved there being a bit of history in there. I wonder if it might be possible to post a short video of how well things like land value, pollution, public service coverage and traffic are. More to see how good a job cities does at modelling this kind of planning (and if you did could you mention if you added much coverage for bus transit as this tends to be the core of urban and suburban transit in the UK outside of London).

[@CityPlannerPlays]

I'll do that. There is a bit of cheese to get this to completely work that does impact things a bit, but I could explain why I had to do that. That's a good idea!

[@Kosii]

Love to see you diving into something British! This is such a unique and interesting video and build that I'm suprised I havent heard of. Hats off to you!

[@Archimedes_]

Fantastic! Super satisfying to watch and to learn about this garden city, and I love how you made it a functional city skylines city too!

[@mj13again]

I love when you do these types of videos. And the fact about the first roundabout was so neat.

[@rptbr]

Love this series! Used to live/work in a garden city (Welwyn) this brings back great memories! I assume biffa will be very keen to copy/paste this for his UK build 😂

[@CityPlannerPlays]

I was very, very close to building Welwyn! I couldn't find a plan clean enough, or I might have!

[@rptbr]

@@CityPlannerPlays Next time! Though I'm sure you'll move away from this and perhaps on to a Barcelona mega-block and pedestrian heavy medieval street build next :)

[@GrumpyDragonHaven]

Having had lived in Letchworth, it was nice to see the old place get a city skylines makeover.. Great job.. CCP

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Thank you!!

[@BatteryAcid1103]

Can I just say, your editing on these is amazing. The transitions, the clear thought behind the angles while building, etc. It just adds an extra layer of polish to already great videos!

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Thank you so much!

[@charliecarrot]

I love your time lapse edits. Working on an area from a single camera angle, then beautifully transitioning to a different angle - looks really professional!

[@ricbaker351]

That was stunning! I enjoy all of your videos, but these builds that follow real city plans are my favorite!!

[@Texasguy517]

This was fantastic to watch! Love the history behind it.

[@scottheighton5971]

TBCH Phil, these are my favorite builds that you do. You leanr something about the history of city planning and you get to see a build come to life from start to finish right before your eyes...and they look so incredibly much like the real thing! Simply amazing!

[@patrickwilliams1206]

This was great! I love seeing these plans come to life. And that ending song was going off fr

[@tbestig4164]

I always love these little builds! It’s so cool seeing real historical city layouts implemented into the game and the editing is awesome with the overlay

[@christoffereilskov5006]

This was really nice and i would love more content like this - i just need more of you in the video! Use a video like this to really talk about the 'nerdy' planner thing - i think a lot of people would love that!

[@ammoran2011]

Loved this so much! The history lesson, maps, and chill music just makes my soul happy!

[@JPacerox1]

I love this video format! Keep it coming

[@s1nb4d59]

One of if not the best ive seen yet,very very nice to watch.

[@FurtivePenguin]

Excellent content as always ! super cool to see people talk about garden cities !!

[@aaronneitzel6864]

This is amazing! So creative how you made the CS design with the actual city plans overlay. Well done sir 😬

[@tomo8088]

Love all your builds and videos CPP, but this is next level. Just amazing, thank you.

[@cormacdiomede7758]

Wow! I love to see projects like this that have been fully realized by other people. I love all of your series!

[@kenshinthebattousai3]

I really dig this type of video never thought it would interest me since i'm just a novice builder in cities skylines but the more i watch your videos you inspire me to learn more thank you!

[@BruceRichardsonMusic]

This is BY FAR the kind of content that most interests me...much more than the gameplay aspect. I love it.

[@shakeemrobinson2948]

I really enjoy the historical perspective of planning you've brought to your content and sharing in this build. I can't wait to see the next one...

[@mrcheese5678]

So cool! York or Newcastle would be interesting builds to see in their own right (ofc only sections of the city) as York has a Roman centre with modern surrounding, whereas Newcastle has to battle with interesting terrain! Either way love to see the work as per!

[@superderone5]

This was cool to see and the population was pretty spot on. I always appreciate a quick history lesson as well.

[@Jim.Hummel]

Oh, this is epic! Informational, educational, inspirational, and lastly, FUN! Being able to learn a bit more about the historical aspects of city planning and how it has evolved from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century is fascinating (at least for me!). The storyline gives the highlights of the concepts and then you see the city blossom before your eyes! I'm not sure if you're using the real populations mod but it was interesting to see the traffic issues in some places and how the city breathed. With all due respect...more, please!

[@MrCruesoe]

So excited to watch this. Had to stop and comment. My wife and I play and watch your videos, we live 20 minutes from Letchworth and my wife lived there for a number of years! Excited for this video!

[@cvillalpando]

The effort you put into this is incredible. Big kudos to you, good sir.

[@SpiritualLoveAwakening]

That was awesome 👏 looks great and never new map overlays were possible 👍👌

[@EvanC881]

Not only a great build but also a great video. Wonderful job!

[@gwynethm1]

Amazing and informative. Awesome job, as usual! Thanks so much, ! You rock!

[@packetpunter]

one of your best videos!! thanks so much

[@dantursi8026]

Phil you absolutely killed it with this one! Grand slam! Awesome awesome awesome.

[@MrDremFilms]

As someone who grew up in Letchworth, this is both fantastic, and weird. The road layout is totally recognisable, but the houses are all wrong! Garden City houses were specifically designed, and have a very specific look. I'm going to have to download this to play with!

[@JacksonOwex]

I'm guessing that look either does NOT exist in any assets or is VERY hard to find if it does exist! Within limits of a game there is only so much you can do!

[@ethanl5109]

Great again! I would love to see more of your input on videos like these like from the beginning of the video.

[@x1435]

Wow, your content has come so far since the beginning! I loved the included the history, real world examples, and your game skill combined with the chill video production. I'd happily watch more. Thank you.

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm always trying to improve, so this means a ton to me!

[@Cedestra]

Ever since you put a quasi-garden city in VB, I've been obsessed with the concept. Love that you made one in CS!

[@viralviper6195]

As someone from Hertfordshire this was lovely to watch, been to Letchworth a few times but more familiar with Welwyn (another garden city nearby). This video was awesome, would love to see more recreations of interesting cities!

[@knockshinnoch1950]

Another fascinating project. I love this game so much- it has so much potential and allows players to be creative in an endless number of possibilities. I do like the recreation of real or never realised real world projects/cities.

[@jimith9913]

I love this channel. So good!

[@PalmelaHanderson]

This was AWESOME! More of these, please!

[@DaggeroPlays]

Love these sort of videos, with the historical and educational elements based on unique real world locations.

[@andrewb3915]

If this is your definition of a #short, then keep it up! Loved this!! More please!!!

[@chickenluverful]

My goto is a grid-style of building, so I love seeing these different build styles. The overlay mod and building is so satisfying to watch take shape

[@theodorechill]

Oh wow this was 8 hours ago, I was thinking I was watching something from a few years ago or something. This is magnificent. One thing I would have absolutely loved to see is what Germany had planned for their new city had the war not been lost. Theres model displayers in some museums.

[@MrJVisionz]

This needs more likes! That would be so cool to see what a city would have been! Please thumbs this up!!

[@calligraphybyprashant5854]

This is amazing. We need more of these.

[@percussiveseer415]

Loving the history bits! I think that the real garden city not being geometrically perfect in practice is really interesting too!

[@theinexperiencedfishkeeper7133]

I loved this video, keep it up!

[@VulcanTrekkie45]

Beautiful! I'd love to see other recreations from you in the future.

[@CatLadyJude]

Loved seeing a local town recreated. Great work!

[@MrJVisionz]

This was FANTASTIC!

[@gruntrant]

This would have been a monstrous effort to both build and edit, so props to you, Phil and your editor/s!

[@linusjklett]

I love these historic videos! ❤️

[@shanemorton2921]

I grew up in (and still live nearby to) the second garden city, Welwyn Garden City. Also the work of Ebenezer Howard. About a 20 minute drive from Letchworth, Welwyn is very similar in its design, particularly around its town centre, where the main drags are uncannily similar. Both are really nice places still to this day, although there is increased density being added to Welwyn and many planning projects are getting considerable resistance from long term residents. This was a lovely watch, thank you! Really nice to see something so close to home 🙂

[@CityPlannerPlays]

I probably should have explained this in more depth, but Letchworth was first, but Welwyn is an iteration of Letchworth that really kicked the movement off. Really amazing that Ebenezer Howard was able to build more than one of these communities in his life time!

[@YTcam]

I used to live in Letchworth! Tried recreating it in city skylines a while back and failed miserably, you on the other hand did a fantastic job!

[@jayjayita7649]

I loved every second of this video. I would stare at this town for hours, it is so beautifully planned and therefore built on the game that it would be entertaining just watching it living by their self!

[@deannafalkenberg5521]

Love these historical builds!

[@AllSeerAugustus]

Love it. Please do more of these

[@shadow_nymm]

i love these recreations!

[@yojimbo-jack]

I doubt I had any part in this but I have suggested this in the past so thank you for doing this!

[@rileyjohnson8411]

I love these short video concepts, but my favorite part was probably the 'first roundabout' section I love the little extra random history facts and if you do more videos like these it would be nice to see those if they pop up in the builds.

[@darkcharzard88]

I was in Letchworth just two weeks ago for a wedding. A car was just ahead of me in limp mode and we had the joy of traveling around the 'First round about' at 5 mph. Very fun. Loved the video, thank you for the great content.

[@weeng1329]

What a fantastic build!

[@AgentNemitzBuilding]

This was really cool!

[@TheWhamo01]

That was beautiful!

[@flynnmckee8442]

This was super cool to see.

[@CDN_Store]

This is great, lived the history too. Made me think of New Addington here in Croydon and how it was originally designed and built to be a garden village until that idea was scrapped after WW2. Would be cool to see developments like this built to the original vision. I hope you do more of these videos.

[@shaneintheuk2026]

There I am playing Cities Skylines, watching City Planner Plays on KZbin, recreating my town in Cities Skylines. If you look closely at 15:41 you can see me in one of the houses on the left of the screen. (Only kidding). One fun factoid, the roundabout in Letchworth claims to be the first roundabout ever.

[@dylanhatcher6299]

Your editing is impeccable!!! Keep it up! My wife and I watch your vids every night before bed 🤓

[@CityPlannerPlays]

Thank you!!!

[@jons_7402]

I always thought Cities Skylines had great potential for more educational style of content, besides the usual game/design stuff we see here. Your channel is at the forefront of this movement. Anxiously waiting for City Planner Explains!!

[@AdamMaynes]

Man! This is awesome!!

[@Navarro1030]

I live in a city in Brazil's countryside that was designed and developed by an English company. It follows this "garden city" design and was a new city built from scratch in the 1960s. Great to see where these ideas come from!

[@kpen9764]

Love this episode would love to see more builds like this explore the old and the new of city planning and design. Next suggestion would be to recreate the city surrounded by parks.

[@gingerking2941]

Nice build. Glad to see my home town represented.

[@halfwaydcent1245]

that was cool as hell. more please.

[@craigburns7907]

This is unbelievably amazing. Wish I could like it one million times

[@Kasnickijakub]

I love Georgian buildings they look fabulous! Great video!

[@wolframhead1033]

Great build, me and my mates live here can't wait to show them the save file!

[@T.C.C.797]

That was quite interesting and very unique 👌

[@iangoodsell]

I was SO HOPING for a bonus CPP video today!!

[@blaikie79]

This is so awesome! Love that you've done another of these, and that it's a UK city too! Thanks Phil, from all of us here in Blighty!

[@GreenCasaConGatto]

Really enjoyed this video, I learned that this was even a thing! Like this style and also would like to learn more about how well the plans worked in practice and if anything was changed after that

[@malcolmrose3361]

My sister used to live there when I was a kid almost fifty years ago. It achieved it's basic aim of "not being London" but it was largely a dormitory town for London and the surrounding areas by the late 70's. CPP placed "mock Georgian" terraces which are a later British architectural fad from the last thirty years - most of the houses are small terraces (eight or nine red brick houses in a block with paths separating the blocks) or 1930's semi detached houses (if you say "he lives in a 1930's semi" any British person will know exactly what you mean as the style was ubiquitous throughout the UK). It had a cinema that I'd sometimes be taken to if my local Odeon wasn't showing a new release - but it had a reputation for being pretty "dead" in the evenings - largely because the early inhabitants had voted for no new pubs to be built - there were a couple on the outskirts of town but all the local teenagers would head for Hitchin, Stevenage (another New Town - and utter s***hole) to go drinking. There's been later development which has changed the ethos a bit but even as a kid it didn't feel like a "proper" town that had grown organically over the centuries. The fact my sister chose to live there said a lot about the place as far as I was concerned.

[@aralioideae3664]

My paternal grandparents live in Letchworth and my dad grew up there! It's so weird to me that it's considered so significant in the history of urban planning because it's just... the town where my grandparents live lol. It's a pleasant enough place with lots of trees (and you did a great job there! so many!) but it's also kind of boring and has a bit of odd atmosphere to it. You've done a fantastic job translating it into the game, although I will say that you've definitely over done it with the density in a lot of areas! Great video as always though!

[@ender1598]

Wow that was really really cool. It's like watching Bob Ross do a painting or something. Masterful skills!

[@yeahhhhhhhish]

these are my favorite videos you make

[@StMansur]

WOW! How fun. Thank you.

[@mrglide7078]

Now there's something you don't see everyday. A CS map of my hometown. Well done! I really enjoyed watching this. How things, even here, have changed. The cargo railhead loop is not longer there. All the town's light industry is still centred around the Works Road area however. Home to Autoglym and Kwik Fit HQ's Standalone Farm, as well as being a working farm, is also a kids petting zoo and thus a local attraction in it's own right. The biggest change is now the town is much expanded, with estates such as Jackmans (slightly sketchy), Lordship (slightly posh), and Grange (mine) all being added in the last 50 or so years. Letchworth today now forms a continuous link between the neighbourhood towns of Hitchin and Baldock. Ebenezer Howard was also instrumental in the formation of Welwyn Garden City just a few miles away, and was on the working committee with fellow reformer George Cadbury in the creation of Bournville Village in Birmingham, at the turn of the 20th Century. Letchworth Heritage Foundation, a charitable organisation, serve as official custodians to ensure the continuity of community and town framework, still within the spirit of Howard's original vision, to this day

[@pederw4900]

I love this style of video! I’d love to hear some commentary on your thoughts about the city, or maybe some of the history while you’re making it

[@jave2274]

I love that topic, here in Austria, we do have Friedensreich Hundertwasser in the 20th century green living enthusiast. Vienna in generall is one of the greenest citys on the planet. You should take a look at the "Donauinsel" or "Danube Island" project that got realised here.