{"id":338,"date":"2014-05-25T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teoalida.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2023-01-21T20:11:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T20:11:04","slug":"plannedcities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teoalida.com\/thesims\/plannedcities\/","title":{"rendered":"0 &#8211; Planning first city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 2006 got idea to practice my architecture and urban planning talent in The Sims 2, to build a big town from scratch, with high-density apartment-like buildings. The Sims 2 Apartment Life was not launched that times.<\/p>\n<p>I planned several building prototypes, the first ideas was to built functional and nice shaped apartment buildings, only one row at street, and only 1-2 buildings in a lot. But later I choose smaller and more non-functional blocks, simple and cubist blocks without balconies or other decorations, and copy same lots again and again, for time economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I created 4 block models:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linear apartment building, 12\u00d76 units, 6 windows, for 3 \u00d7 n lots.<\/li>\n<li>Corner apartment building, 10\u00d710 units, 7 windows, for 3 \u00d7 n lots.<\/li>\n<li>Corner Long apartment building, 14\u00d710 units, 9 windows, for 3 \u00d7 2 or 5 \u00d7 n lots.<\/li>\n<li>Linear Long apartment building, 20 \u00d7 6 units, 10 windows, for special cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Frontal facades are placed at 4 squares from the lot margins, side facades are placed at 2 squares from lot margins, so in a 3\u00d73 lot can be placed up to 4 blocks, in a 5\u00d75 lot up to 9 blocks. Distance between frontal facades is 18 squares, between back facades is minimum 10 squares.<\/p>\n<p>A thing that really SUCKS: <strong>the sun direction is decided at lot creation and saved with it!<\/strong> If you rotate the lot, the sun rotates too, the neighborhood view will become ugly because some buildings will be lightened from wrong directions. Also the shadows of buildings ends wrong at lot limits. The entire wall under a balcony appears wrong in shadow. For a nice neighborhood view, you must turn off shadows, avoid building balconies and avoid rotating lots.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike The Sims 1, you cannot place any walls less than 2 squares from lot limits, so you cannot create buildings that apparently continue from one lot to another.<\/p>\n<h3>The Sims 2 Urban Cities built by Teoalida<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now with everything standardized, I started building my first city\u00a0<strong><a href=\"\/thesims\/islasegundo-urban-city\/\">IslaSegundo<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in November 2006 and never finished.<br \/>\nIf finished, it would had about <strong>260<\/strong> lots with about <strong>700<\/strong> apartment blocks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/thesims\/islasegundo-urban-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/thesims\/houses\/IslaSegundo-2.jpg\" alt=\"IslaSegundo\" width=\"512\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Second city <a href=\"\/thesims\/pleasantview-urban-city\/\"><strong>PleasantView<\/strong><\/a> in April 2007, second phase done in February 2008.<br \/>\nTotal: <strong>81<\/strong> lots, <strong>17<\/strong> high-rise blocks, <strong>209<\/strong> low-rise blocks, <strong>35<\/strong> landed houses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/thesims\/pleasantview-urban-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/thesims\/houses\/Pleasantview-2.jpg\" alt=\"Pleasantview\" width=\"512\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Third city <strong><a href=\"\/thesims\/starlingsprings-urban-city\/\">StarlingSprings<\/a><\/strong> in February 2008, abandoned in 2010, resumed working in 2016, finalized in 2017.<br \/>\nTotal: <strong>231<\/strong> lots, <strong>55<\/strong> high-rise blocks, <strong>599<\/strong> low-rise blocks and <strong>164<\/strong>\u00a0landed houses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/thesims\/starlingsprings-urban-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/thesims\/cities\/StarlingSprings-south-east-aerial.jpg\" alt=\"StarlingSprings\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2006 got idea to practice my architecture and urban planning talent in The Sims 2, to build a big town from scratch, with high-density apartment-like buildings. The Sims 2 Apartment Life was not launched that times.<\/p>\n<p>I planned several building prototypes, the first ideas was to built functional and nice shaped apartment buildings, only one row at street, and only 1-2 buildings in a lot. But later I choose smaller and more non-functional blocks, simple and cubist blocks without balconies or other decorations, and copy same lots again and again, for time economy.<\/p>\n<p>I built 3 urban-style cities, IslaSegundo (2006), PleasantView (2007), StarlingSprings (2008).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30,59],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cities","tag-planned-cities","tag-the-sims-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Sims 2 planned cities - urban neighborhoods - The Sims fan page<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From 2006 I practiced my architecture and urban planning talent in The Sims 2, to build a big town from scratch, with high-density apartment-like buildings.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teoalida.com\/thesims\/plannedcities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Sims 2 planned cities - urban neighborhoods - The Sims fan page\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From 2006 I practiced my architecture and urban planning talent in The Sims 2, to build a big town from scratch, with high-density apartment-like buildings.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.teoalida.com\/thesims\/plannedcities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sims fan page\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-05-25T12:00:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-21T20:11:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Teoalida\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Teoalida\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teoalida.com\\\/thesims\\\/plannedcities\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teoalida.com\\\/thesims\\\/plannedcities\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Teoalida\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.teoalida.com\\\/thesims\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/aae707152a8423a4d2c77265f32eb0eb\"},\"headline\":\"0 &#8211; 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