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Wuphons Reach - Kirkenes
Port city along the western bay. Neighbors are Weedzuck to the north, Jenza to the east-northeast, Tulinick to the east-southeast, Westview to the south, and Bayview to the west.2070 - 73k population
This is an overview shot showing the fire trucks heading back to their station after putting out a fire along the north edge.
2091 - Stock Exchange Reward
2122 - 100k Population
This is the first layout of this city, back when it first hit 100k population in 2122. Notice the lack of a highway from Westview.
2133 - First section of highway
This is one of my early attempts at using the SC4 highways. I'm figuring on a 3-tier road system (highway-road-street) with commercial and industrial zones being on the outside of large sections created by placing roads on an approximate 40 block by 40 block grid system. Inside of each section will be high density residential hooked up to streets (to reduce road noise).
2167 - The start of a complete rebuild.
In the mid-2100s, after discovering in Westview that sims like to "cut corners" when it comes to finding their route, I started rebuilding Kirkenes from scratch. When I started the project, I had around 90k to 95k population and $650k in the bank. By the time I finished circa 2210, population had dropped as low as 82 people (and bounced back to 75k pop.), I had rioting in the streets for a while, lots of fires due to abandoned buildings in poor fire coverage areas, and my bank balance dipped below $75k.The key to this re-design is to see whether a sectional approach to roads would work. Notice that each section can only reach another section by using the highway system (or rail). This keeps the sims from overloading a road that might connect two areas (which is what happens in a grid-based road system). So far it seems to work, but the city is only at 75k population.
2170 - Residential pockets
Another strategy that I'm trying out is to place hospitals and elementary schools with ambulance and bus funding cut to zero (which is why they have such small radii of operation. From what I can figure, this is the cheapest per-unit cost that can be attained for health and education, plus it really compresses the residential areas, making it easier to apply modifiers such as parks / rewards.
2170 - Zones and traffic
Here is probably the easiest to understand diagram of the sectional road system. Traffic looks very clean except for the one section in the central-north, but since it's a localized problem, it can be fixed on a local level (cheers!). Passenger rail was an after-thought (oops, I forgot it) and ended up wedged between the sections.
2209 - Zones and traffic, part 2
Mini-maps of zones and traffic flows.
2212 - Graphs of the rebuild era
Okay, here are all of the nitty gritty graphs of what happened to various aspects during the circa 40 year rebuilding.
2232 - the results
Population is around 75k, and the budget is about $2k/mo profit. There's still a good bit of tweaking to be done to the zone positioning in order to get the population back above 100k, but it's off to a decent restart.