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negativenull@piefed.world 1 month ago
Downtown Denver:
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At least with places like Denver and other western cities it’s pretty straightforward how it happened - everything built along the river. Access to the river was key.
Being a boom/bust city means that a much later boom they adjusted.
Then even older cities (think Boston) grew before any opportunity at planning could happen.
Denver was two cities - Aurora and Denver. One was built to align with the river, the other with compass points and then they grew big enough to smush into each other and neither was willing to concede to the other.
Also Denver’s namesake, a Kansas politician, never even visited. It was a failed attempt to lure him here.
(minor correction: Auraria was the name:
https://www.uncovercolorado.com/auraria-colorado-history/ )
OMG thank you - brain fart on my part!
My favorite is how 15th St just boings off of Colfax (15th ave)
I can’t see the pic, but I am gonna guess Broadway and Lincoln between 19th and 20th?
Interestingly enough, Denver has 3 main grids:
The range and township grid as the typical NS/EW grid, the Araria grid by DU which is largely built over, and the downtown grid, the last two of which are aligned to Cherry Creek and the Platte River, though I’m not certain which one to which waterway. If it wasn’t for one-ways, that area would be screwed up beyond belief. As it stands, it just looks a little odd and everyone needs to try to pick their lanes in advance. :D
I just uploaded the image in my comment directly, instead of linking an external site. Hopefully you can see it now.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is the part in Sim City where I restart.
negativenull@piefed.world 1 month ago
Aw, now I miss Sim City 2000
BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 1 month ago
Sim City 4 is the best version of the Sim City games, and is 75% off on GOG right now, $5 / £4.
Cities Skylines 1 is the best modern city builder, 3D and a lot of fun plus well designed. But only really worth it when it’s on sale; lots of DLC and overpriced as a package when not on sale. Avoid Cities Skylines 2 - it’s just not fun and hasn’t been fixed - maybe they will one day fix but I doubt it 2.5 years in..
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Imagine what Cities Skylines could have been without Paradox’s super monetization plan
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pssst…just pirate it with all DLC.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
The original developer has literally been pulled off of Cities Skylines 2. Maybe the little developer that Paradox put on it to crank out DLCs will do a good job and fix it, but I doubt it.
auntieclokwise@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And don’t forget the Network Addon Mod for Sim City 4. Improves traffic simulation and adds a whole bunch of new sorts of transportation stuff. It’s really the expansion pack Sim City 4 never had.
ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Cities and Skylines isn’t too far off from that sim city 2000 vibe, if you need a fix
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The GoG version of SimCity 2000 runs fine in wine. The originals, not so much.
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applica…
negativenull@piefed.world 1 month ago
I’ll check that out! Thanks for the rec!