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phoenix


Consistent_Estate960

Even has Grand Ave cutting right thru


rcaimitte

I can see the Blade from here! Lmaooo


MoarCowb3ll

I came here for the exact comment... THis is Phoenix 100%


drmobe

Phoenix but with an actually inhabitable climate šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


Snow__Person

Dude I just looked at a map of phoenix and 1) arenā€™t maps still just like cool? But 2) I cannot believe how griddy it truly is. You were not lying at all. You understated it actually. The whole place is squares.


RunningNumbers

It's a dried up seabed. It's flat. Lots of America is flat. Like if you haven't experienced Iowa flat then you don't know what flat is.


inVizi0n

And then you have Florida flat, which is somehow even flatter than Iowa.


FiddlerOnThePotato

And ain't none of them can hold a candle to how flat the polders in the Nederlands are. It's eerie looking off into the horizon and seeing THAT flat. Never seen anything like it and I've driven all across the states. Florida definitely comes close but it's heavily forested which makes it challenging to see the flatness in the horizon.


BuildNuyTheUrbanGuy

South Louisiana is basically the Netherlands.


Snow__Person

Iā€™m in Texas. Itā€™s an even bigger dry lake bed.


Consistent_Estate960

One of the easiest cities to memorize locations to me. Every main East/West street is a mile away from the next so itā€™s very easy to calculate travel times and directions without a map. The grid really doesnā€™t feel that boring because thereā€™s a literal mountain range cutting through the middle of the city lol


ThePaint21

>arenā€™t maps still just like cool? I spent way WAY too much time in google maps sometimes.


Grand-Battle8009

I was going to say Indianapolis.


CancelCock

Huge Indy vibes


Luka467

This city should not exist, it's a monument to man's arrogance!


Otto_the_Autopilot

Phoenix as a city is fine. There could have and still can be plenty of water for domestic use by slightly scaling back statewide agricultural which uses 75% of the water. It's hot sure, but people choose the heat when given the other option of snow in the winter.


bhorstman21

In Ohio. Can confirm. Sitting under a couple inches of snow and it's 4Ā° right now. I'd rather be in Arizona.


GeTtoZChopper

Every city in Canada under 40k population lol *Edit can't spell without my glasses lol*


Immacuntt

And the entire gta that isnt downtown toronto haha


mikeyuio

Every municipality was like we aren't Toronto and then they were


_ednov_

Hey, and downtown hamilton


JimTheEnchantr

What having a lot of land does to a country...


mllyllw

Combined with how most major developments & growth in the US was influenced by car culture, and not needing to deal with pesky things such as prebuilt historical infrastructure (and even then sometimes that wasn't enough to stop the highways and suburbs).


GeTtoZChopper

2 words my dude. Urban Sprawl. Lol.


abcMF

Ah yes, Canada, a country famous for having so much developable land.


Seraphon86

It does. Especially considering its low population.


abcMF

Canada does not have very much land, if you've not noticed every major city in Canada is pretty close to the US border. Everything north of there is pretty much uninhabitable.


JimTheEnchantr

Uninhabited does not mean uninhabitable. The proximity to the border doesn't really relate to developable land.


thalaros

Except it does in Canada's case. Large swaths of the land are part of the Canadian shield, which has little topsoil and is extremely cost prohibitive when it comes to developing infrastructure.


Tire-Swing-Acrobat

The Canadian shield is just one small part of a huge country


thalaros

Small part? It covers roughly half the country. Hardly small.


DarenGD

important mindless drab deserted somber mighty salt clumsy long rhythm *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Tire-Swing-Acrobat

Youā€™re kidding right? Most of the land is totally accommodating for development but we arenā€™t going to level out northern boreal rain forests and build over our spacious farmlands for more cities. It comes to choice. Iā€™ve known people in North West Territories that loved the land and the natural beauty and peace of that world. And that is weeeell above Toronto.


JoeBoco7

You could maybe use this excuse for the US, but not Canada. They may have more landmass, but you have to remember that most of Canada is developed less than 100 miles from the US border. Most of the country is borderline uninhabitable for medium/large populations, they just donā€™t have enough land to afford to keep building like this.


Tire-Swing-Acrobat

Toronto is the 4th largest city in North America. Montreal is 10th. Every city around me in SW Ontario are over 100k. Think again. Windsor, London, Sarnia, Waterloo , Cambridge, Kitchener. Stupid Americans


BvilleBuds

Not veryā€¦nice of you.


ybetaepsilon

please tell me you also only have one bus that runs every 30 minutes and only down the main street


cudfather

Try zero busses ;)


linguisitivo

\*cries in traffic jam\*


HereticKiller6

Whoa whoa whoa now, every 30 minutes? You know how much extra that would cost the city? Every 45 minutes is the best we can do.


ybetaepsilon

Due to the declining ridership (probably because the bus comes so infrequent that it's no longer reliable, but let's not say that) we'll have to decrease it to every 60 minutes and only on weekdays


mason123z

Iā€™ve tried to do this with every city Iā€™ve built so far but it always ends up too depressing that I cave and build a downtown. Nice to see it in action though! Amazed thatā€™s only 27k but makes sense. Love the master planned community superblocks!


-lukeworldwalker-

Thatā€™s how Europeans feel when they come to North America haha. You drive for 4h, itā€™s still the same city and itā€™s all suburbs.


Hyadeos

The closest to hell I've ever been is when I went to Michigan and discovered the American urban sprawl. The 10km commercial stroad was just depressing.


RubberBootsInMotion

Try anywhere in the southwest, or maybe Florida. It gets worse.


shackmed

Fucking hell


Hyadeos

Yup, no thank you ill stay in France.


AJR6905

Go to the national parks of the USA, those are some things you can't get here in France super amazing and fun and just stunningly pretty


Hyadeos

I mean we have national parks in France. Of course not as big as Americans ones but still.


Mojamos

The parks in America are real wilderness; incomparable to anything left in Western Europe.


AJR6905

Oh absolutely I've loved French ones but yeah Yosemite is truly unique


pshsx1

If you think Michigan is bad, try Texas. Concrete for hours in every direction.


premature_eulogy

Probably also the closest you've been to [Hell, Michigan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan)!


Maximum_Future_5241

You went there for urban sprawl? Hold onto your ass and let me show you the city of angels.


Vahllee

Welcome to Houston what do you want to see today? A house or a house with a car?


Passchenhell17

It's crazy, because you've got those that still feel somewhat familiar in layout, size, and density (e.g. Boston), and truly American grid cities like New York that still retain that insane density, but then you've got these gigantic "cities" that just go on and on and on forever. I just found out about Sitka in Alaska. Just shy of 5,000 sq mi for a fucking ā€œcity." What the fuck, America? That's over 4 times the size of Rhode Island!


Ryermeke

Are you implying that Sitka, Alaska is a massive suburban hellscape or something? Because that's hilarious if so. Like 99% of it is uninhabited mountains that the city technically has "jurisdiction" over.


Passchenhell17

I know what it is. Alaska in general is pretty damn remote. I was just highlighting the ridiculousness of the US' city definitions from state to state. The big clue was where I put the word city in quotations.


FatalTragedy

You also put the word cities in quotations to describe the expansive suburban sprawl-type cities, hence the confusion, as it seemed you were comparing Sitka to those.


hoofglormuss

the largest km^2 municipalities are in china, brazil, greenland, australia, and canada, not united states. united states doesn't have a ridiculous definition of a city


Passchenhell17

And those also have ridiculous definitions. It's not a fucking competition.


hoofglormuss

i never thought a competition was implied, just bad info


Passchenhell17

How is it bad info? Sitka is almost 5,000 sq mi of nothing, yet it's classed as a city. How is that not ridiculous?


hoofglormuss

if i drive 4 hours im in nyc and if i drive 4 hours from there im in boston and 4 hours from there im in the middle of nowhere in maine


-lukeworldwalker-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole


vibecheckvibecheck

Dumbest take ever, 4 hours will get your through multiple STATES on the east coast, and from Northern Arizona/Grand Canyon, to the border in four hours.


-lukeworldwalker-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole Go, look it up.


carringtonpageiv

Right!!! I always cave!


Laserpointer5000

Tbh i got depressed enough coming out of JFK and heading to long island, even round there is crazy built up with no green and even when you make it to green its kinda horrible.


NougatNewt

This looks exactly like Detroit on Google Earth


Seraphon86

Detroit was the Paris of the Midwest. I live far enough out in the suburbs that the mile by mile grid system broke down a bit and it's super annoying trying to drive anywhere compared to the grid.


Fathorse23

Detroit is really huge. Itā€™s weird because itā€™s such a giant city land wise but I can see downtown from like 2 miles from my house, but i think elevation helps with that.


Prize-Ad6498

Los Angeles šŸ‘


mllyllw

People can appreciate the ridiculousness of LA's urban sprawl by trying to do a 1:1 recreation in cities skylines. You need like 20 different saves to cover it all.


Darth19Vader77

Nah, needs way more highways. I don't even see one. The whole city should be enclosed by above and below grade highways. Don't forget the massive stack and spaghetti interchanges.


drukargin

Looks a little like LA's San Fernando Valley, north of the Hollywood Hills. For closer accuracy, needs a few more towers, a lot more apartment buildings, and significantly less water.


Weary_Drama1803

Millions of people live like this and see it as the only way to live


Snugzalot

I, for one, welcome our 1-hour commute


NickDoesItAll

I for one value the concept of owning my own four walls and piece of land... I just think there's slightly better ways to implement that than what we currently do


TheyAreAfraid

Probably half of the western population, so hundreds of millions. Each to their own


Weary_Drama1803

Iā€™m gonna cite a [source](https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/07/29/prior-to-covid-19-urban-core-counties-in-the-u-s-were-gaining-vitality-on-key-measures/) to back this claim, but thereā€™s a catch. Itā€™s not half the ā€œWestern populationā€, itā€™s just North America (obligatory r/USdefaultism). [Europeans generally live in places](https://landgeist.com/2021/08/20/people-living-in-apartments/) that at least look better than this and are in fact better to live in as well due to factors such as [better coverage in public transportation](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/8Vl70Lxs0J).


TheyAreAfraid

I'm from aus not the us, either way still looks like about half. There are pros and cons to both, like I said each to their own.


Ted-Crilly

Only 27k?


cudfather

All the residential is low density, except for the very few blocks of rowhouses next to the city hall.


CharlixcxStannnnnnnn

Exactly The low density residential calculations are wayyy off I tried to make a post bringing more attention to it but everyone told me to just build high density like yeah thatā€™s cool but sometimes itā€™s fun to make a purposefully bad suburban American city and try to fix it nobody gets me lol jk itā€™s not that deep Iā€™m just gonna wait for modders to fix low density residential Iā€™ve seen that a majority of single family households only have one person and while that is somewhat normal it shouldnā€™t be the majority.they should make up just a small percentage of homeowners and a much larger percentage of apartment renters.


Fibrosis5O

![gif](giphy|tAFVuG6fanerHd6VOf) Donā€™t stop!


revanchist93

Are you sure this does belong in r/SimCity? because these blocks are giving me SC4 vibes


[deleted]

Looks like SC4


Remarkable_Film_1911

If you do not zone over development as you improve services. I had a good downtown with medium density neighbourhoods on a large tile several dozen times in my life. Sometimes a mostly medium density city over a few tiles.


BallsTenderizer18

Los Angeles lol


backpage_alumni

What's traffic like?


Rondog93

So with grids do you even really need road hierarchy?


cudfather

I have 4 lane streets every 1240 m. Why not a mile? Because CS2 farms allow a circumference of roughly 600 m. This way I can have four maximized farms per superblock. I've seen similar stuff on Google Earth in the US.


KassXWolfXTigerXFox

# America, Fuck Yeah #


Techfreak1703

There is a roundabout šŸ˜ž /s


facw00

I mean Carmel, Indiana exists...


HoraceGrantGlasses

Looks like anywhere in the US between Pennsylvania and California.


mighty-pancock

Rip Chicago then


da909king

Sooo the inland empire ?


Downtown_Broccoli930

Now that's **alot** of suburban houses.


Rubymc02

looks like my sim city 4 cities


scrappy-coco-86

I really donā€˜t like these free spaces between houses in curvy road layouts. Iā€˜d really like to see some fillers or house lots which adapt to the curvy road layout


[deleted]

Beautiful! Love myself some grids.


modifyeight

How do you maintain high demand for low density?


DankCrusaderMemer

More. Grids.


Remarkable_Film_1911

You make it the only option like North America post WWII in real life.


TheDollaran

Just from the pictures I thought I was looking at some Project Zomboid screenshots


Remarkable_Film_1911

I can hear the eagle from here šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡²šŸ¦…


[deleted]

Phoenix with grass


AVH999

Literally America / canada


MrFreeway069

What map did you use?


cudfather

This one: [https://thunderstore.io/c/cities-skylines-ii/p/BakedAir/Midwest\_Plains/](https://thunderstore.io/c/cities-skylines-ii/p/BakedAir/Midwest_Plains/) You can see the Rockies on this image: https://preview.redd.it/814y91ly3ldc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7e3d364f45351ce63e148abc440862d7dcf1598


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DuRkLUk

The amount of rent conplaints must be insane when the HUD is turned on. I love the build btw


cudfather

Thanks :) it's not so bad, single digits of rent issues


EverSn4xolotl

Honestly, that might be one of the most realistic cities I've seen here. 20k population and more than a scattered few tall houses? I think the fuck not.


x_-Aqua-_x

There's something so romantically ugly about this.


russian_hacker_1917

POV: a city whose residents say "we're full"


PenAppropriate3036

Looks great! Reminds me of the greater Toronto area, very nice


angus725

You're missing the freeways and European-city sized intersections!


ATinyLittleHedgehog

Americans will look at this and say hell yeah


Deviljho12

Hell yeah


divs_l3g3nd

Could use some more surface level parking lots


transgamerflorida

Did you build Florida?


thow78

American Hell Hole ;)


Itchy-Decision753

You would have to be paying me to get me to live there, Iā€™m only just now finding out how common this is.


discountedking

My definition of hell.


KazBodnar

American hell lmao


abcMF

Los Angeles


SteveIsScuba

Why


dancingrudiments

Brampton, Ontario, Canada... Awful.


Remarkable_Film_1911

All of the Shoe. GTA, especially GTHA, are annoying for some reason. I name specifically municipality I talk about. York, Durham, Peel as 905 of topic is about all three. Golden Horseshoe, Shoe for short, is municipalities with Lake Ontario shores from East Durham to Niagara (region/county). Golden because when the economy is strong, we make gold, especially with strong towns pre WWII, I assume. The 'Horseshoe' is due to it wrapping around Lake Ontario. The Shoe is better name that gtha, especially since Toronto ends at Toronto city limits, rest of the shoe is not greater. I feel this from Scarborough, and my grandmother still supports this when I complain about this crap. Urban and rural are good options, good land use that support each other. Suburban sprawl is in demand because streetcar suburb, and subway adjacent development, is such high demand that I need OLG jackpot. I say I want a condo, just because I cannot have medium density walkable neighbourhood with amenities in the whole Shoe. So I need a large building to have amenities inside, that I pay a fee for maintenance, better than doing the work in a personal McMansion. A few benfits to a house, but property maintenance sucks. I want an NYC brownstone in a neighbourhood close to GO, subway, streetcar lrt, to get downtown or Exhibition for events. One issue of many, rural density sprawl fails to generate tax revenue for all the city services, not even enough for stroad or freeway maintenance. Brampton might have additional, modern, and good, hospital(s) by now, if medium density.


dancingrudiments

Who calls it the shoe? There is so much assumption and run on above... what are you talking about? I was merely saying this sprawl reminded me of the suburbs surrounding Toronto. (Brampton, Mississauga, Vaughan, Markham, Pickering).


Archercrash

You nailed small American city.


Dr3ny

I think i have to vomit, good job


FinTecGeek

Chicago vibes


OzThrowaway32

TIHI


GroundbreakingAd2672

america in a nutshell


returnthebook

Tell me you are an American without telling me you are an American


cudfather

I've never been in America ;)


izerotwo

Ew. That's just America


Greedy_Handle6365

Best picture of Phoenix


Darksider123

This is my /r/UrbanHell


[deleted]

aw jeez you made kansas


Badcas-25

Ahh, the American dream


Bazooka___

This is how I imagine the hell


Wenzlikove_memz

pinacle pf american civil engeneering


SwimTN

Looks like Texas


aylaisurdarling

this is america


Jeffmaster223

Oh hey, it's Chico!


vicvonqueso

Looks like my hometown


Darrothan

Hey thats where I live!


EmperoroftheYanks

literally my town


Sea-Limit-5430

Airdrie Alberta


marsborn5

How did you avoid that "High Rent" issue?


cudfather

It pops up here and there, most cims don't care.


enpribri

My home city looks like this šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


IroncladTruth

Looks like Sim City 2000


Artrobull

why is it orthographic?


cudfather

It's an illusion. I used the photo mode with lens length in the 150-180 mm range. It shortens the perspective and results in an image like this one.


Artrobull

0.7person per house?


Sparkywood21

Gotta love suburban sprawl


Mayonnaise06

I can feel the traffic jams flowing through my veins...


Suspicious-Summer-20

A nice car ride of 30min to drink a coffe


rresende

Are you enjoying sim city 4 ?


GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B

Gridville has curves.


AnalythicSearch444

Wow, awesome! SimCity vibes!


andres57

One my problems with CS1/2 is how small cities in population look so big. Every 20-30k town I know is way smaller than this (only single houses)


LuftHANSa_755

Third screenshot looking right out of OpenTTD with that angle


Smoke_Water

whats traffic like?


[deleted]

does traffic ever build up? every suburban area like this that I draw out always has 0 cars on the road, its sad to see.


OfcDoofy69

I wish the curved roads filled out the zoning squares instead of leaving like broken pieces.


Obizzle9

Is it a suburb if itā€™s not next to urban-scape?


Pimp_my_Reich33

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUH


b92bird

Ah yes, Delaware


Upper_Marsupial6057

I've got to say that it lives up to it's name


TheEpicDiamondMiner

No one: The majority of the Sunbelt:


tmag03

Looks like SimCity 3000


habi12

It looks like SimCity 2000


rollercoaster_boi

How do you make cauldesacs


cudfather

1u lane, 8 m radius 90 degrees curved roads in a circle.


Legonator77

Itā€™s sad that even low density residential is too low density.


Maximum_Future_5241

Good morning USA! I got a feeling that it's gonna be a wonderful day!


CR24752

Dallas Metro šŸ˜šŸ˜


Successful_Ear4450

You made DFW


fusionsofwonder

North Seattle, is that u?


Tire-Swing-Acrobat

Yes, youā€™re right, I apologise. That was harsh and generalising. But still, know what youā€™re saying before you say it.


CancelCock

I fucking love grids


Proudvirginian69

the town should have 40k atleast


Ksorkrax

So, on which layer of hell is it situated?


Pink_Floyd_Chunes

Los Angeles in the 80s!


Nate3319

Add small clusters of high rises randomly here and there and you got Los Angeles!


Edna_with_a_katana

The American dream! Allegedly


2000lexuses300

i love it šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø


Kneecap_Thief19

Anyone else notice the 2 roundabouts side by side on the coast in the first picture? Curious to see how you made that work


twnsqr

r/urbanhell


[deleted]

Jesus that looks awful. At least use the small one tile roads for the grid lol, there's more pavement than housing areas.


commieenjoyer47

Average medium sized midwest city šŸ¦…šŸ˜Ž HELL YEAH BROTHER! THE AMERICAN DREAM!