As you mentioned in the video and as was discussed during the premiere, I find it a great and very realistic idea to scatter some "normal" hotels throughout the city. It makes a ton of sense and is really overlooked, not just by the game but frankly also by myself. I never really thought much about hotels in this way, but they in a sense are really crucial, aren't they? Also looking at it from a historical standpoint, even in the medieval period pretty much every village of at least a somewhat medium size had an inn for travelers and pilgrims to stay, for couriers to change horses, etc etc. In fact very often an inn would be considered one of the most important and most significant buildings of a village, with many villages actually forming around an existing inn. So these places are and always have been really really important, which is, in my opinion, really easy to overlook. We are maybe so used to at least small hotels or inns being available almost everywhere that we don't think much about how important they can be and how inconvenient their absence would be for us. Very fascinating, thank you for bringing this up ^-^ I think suburban sprawl is a very very complicated topic. On one hand you could understandably feel inclined to say that allowing suburbs to grow that massively without careful inclusion of amenities is blind and not very smart, but on the other hand the existence of suburban sprawl shows that there is a strong desire and often a hard need for these areas in a way. It's probably very very difficult to balance the necessity for relatively rapid expansion with the need to carefully plan. Again very fascinating ^-^ I really like your extensive network of pedestrian & bike bridges throughout the whole city, very very nice ^-^ In a way you could almost say that these bridges and paths are their own form of public transport, I think :) As always, your detailing is super super beautiful, I absolutely love it!
I love that connection to small villages having Inns, you are so right. Yes the little bushes can do a lot to make a place feel special and I like lush spaces as much as I do open spaces too. I bet Raid Kitty could make that, beyond my skill in the game. Thank you as always for your thoughtful comments. Have a great week. New video coming this morning. ;)
It just baffles me that so many modern day suburbs aren't built like this from the start. I grew up in "suburbia" in Melbourne, Australia but in the older, inter-war suburbs that really sprung up around the 1930s, and to me they are a great model of what "suburbia" should be, because while people still lived the dream of a detached family home, the suburbs were so compact, walkable, built around train stations, and mixed-use with shops, parks, schools, churches, libraries, restaurants, etc all scattered not only along the main streets but even around the side streets. Every house was within a 15 minute walk of a train station (which itself was surrounded by shops, services & restaurants) and that was true for the next suburb over, and the next, and the next. It seems crazy that they stopped building suburbs that way at all.
I agree. The way that these neighborhoods were built with our walkability and accessibility is just baffling. I believe we should always design for people first, not cars. Glad you enJOYed this video.
@@JoyBuildsCities I did! Even from a non North American perspective it felt like you transformed our awful newer outer suburbs into our much better older middle suburbs, and I never understood why we'd stop building more like old ones. $$$ talks and the older walkable suburbs are worth twice as much as the newer car dependent ones, because walkability and public transport are desirable!
I love the tropical theme, I was going for that in a previous city but a bug killed the whole city :( but now I’m working on a new one with more skills to work with!
I love your walkable city! As a cyclist, cross sections are a bit scary though when the road is shared with cars. To avoid traffic collisions it might be an idea to make one lane roads, or t-sections, or even only use roads made with bricks (since these usually slow down cars). That way, the city will still be accessible by car, but will prioritize pedestrians and cyclists.
can't believe I never saw this channel before, RUclips's algorithm needs some work... but anyway lol Love LOVE the philosophy of your city building. The best thing I liked about visiting New York City and DC was that I could walk everywhere or take the Subway/Metro to get to further distances. I wish we as a society would get with it and abolish suburban sprawl it's just so messed up that we waste all this space and then we have to use a car to get everywhere, further adding to the costs. Also, I love your music, the 80's style ones in particular. Subbed!
I really like the way you put your FPV to be at realistic human eye level. Everyone else places their "camera" way too high and it kills the immersion.
Wow this is really excellent!! This may be my favorite 15 minute city I’ve seen from this game thus far. Really wished I was raised in some place like this where it wasn’t car dependent and in the middle of nowhere 😔😭
im shocked you only have 2k subs!! this video was very well made and everything was explained very well. I will def be subscribing and watching more! keep it up!
i figured a solution for traffic which to get dedicated paths for pedestrians, cars, and bus. i saw it's what you're trying to done too, but it's complicated to build 3x more roads, even a 1-lane ones. also, from an aesthetic point of you, you don't want your city hidden behind roads, or your road hidden behind the ground.
I love the video .. I'm going to learn how to do basic video editing this weekend, then learn how to do a time lapse 😂 You've really inspired me to do something with me learning how to detail ... I'm just about 2 months in to the game in general.. Trying to figure out everything, and, modding is funny and, challenging at times😂 Maybe, it'll help someone like you're helping me ❤
This is so exciting. I’m glad to have inspired you. Come join the city of friends discord and there’s a bunch of creators in there and everyone’s always willing to help everyone out as we all start somewhere.
I'm so happy I stumbled across this channel whilst I was suffering from creativity block, the video was both relaxing and helpful, the music was super feel good and your voice is so soothing and relaxing to listen to, I'm definitely going to binge watch some of your stuff now 💖☺
@@JoyBuildsCities i guess being successfull on youtube is more about feeling that the youtuber is friendly rather than entertaining of skilled. you're so friendly with everyone, you probaly will be quickly an important figure of that platform. don't get headaches trying to be perfect, just stay yourself joy ;-)
@@JoyBuildsCities if one day you want request donations, be aware that some charity oriented platforms let you the possibility to keep 100%, meanwhile most popular crowdfunding solutions takes up to 70% of what you earn. can't give more details without being censored here !
I really want to make cities more walkable, but I am worried of AI, and that road diet will ruin my city due to traffic. Does more walkability simulate less cars on the road in Cities Skylines as it would in real life?
I would be stoked to live in this neighborhood too! Detailing is not my strong suit so I've been watching your videos for ideas... are you using only vanilla trees/bushes for filling in the open spaces?
Yes, my detailing is predominantly vanilla. I use a very small selection of mods and asset. They’re all linked in my video if you want to check them out. And thank you for being here!
a game like planet coaster must be visually more pleasant to admire your creations and watch the virtual life you've created using what you've built for them. but building a park is different than building a city.
@JoyBuildsCities 😳 Oh my goodness, I didn't think you'd reply to a year old video! Uh, I'm just going through the whole backlog of Mordalgo and it's been a lovely, relaxing and entertaining time! 😅
Commute times really cut into the time we could be spending doing things that make us happy. I myself don’t live in a walkable place so I build places I wish I could live.
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Great video! Love the walkable neighborhood design and the small pockets of commercial corner stores. I’d live here for sure :)
Thank you GS, glad you enJOYed it!
@@JoyBuildsCitiessoviet microdistrict vs USA suburb
Your philosophy behind this part of the city is exactly the philosophy behind Dutch infrastructure in general, really nice to see!
Oh cool! Yes, my whole city is based on this. Thank you for being here!
lol “philosophy” no your cities were medieval slums
@@chickentoucher55lol keep crying bro 😂
As you mentioned in the video and as was discussed during the premiere, I find it a great and very realistic idea to scatter some "normal" hotels throughout the city.
It makes a ton of sense and is really overlooked, not just by the game but frankly also by myself. I never really thought much about hotels in this way, but they in a sense are really crucial, aren't they?
Also looking at it from a historical standpoint, even in the medieval period pretty much every village of at least a somewhat medium size had an inn for travelers and pilgrims to stay, for couriers to change horses, etc etc. In fact very often an inn would be considered one of the most important and most significant buildings of a village, with many villages actually forming around an existing inn. So these places are and always have been really really important, which is, in my opinion, really easy to overlook. We are maybe so used to at least small hotels or inns being available almost everywhere that we don't think much about how important they can be and how inconvenient their absence would be for us.
Very fascinating, thank you for bringing this up ^-^
I think suburban sprawl is a very very complicated topic.
On one hand you could understandably feel inclined to say that allowing suburbs to grow that massively without careful inclusion of amenities is blind and not very smart, but on the other hand the existence of suburban sprawl shows that there is a strong desire and often a hard need for these areas in a way.
It's probably very very difficult to balance the necessity for relatively rapid expansion with the need to carefully plan.
Again very fascinating ^-^
I really like your extensive network of pedestrian & bike bridges throughout the whole city, very very nice ^-^
In a way you could almost say that these bridges and paths are their own form of public transport, I think :)
As always, your detailing is super super beautiful, I absolutely love it!
I love that connection to small villages having Inns, you are so right. Yes the little bushes can do a lot to make a place feel special and I like lush spaces as much as I do open spaces too. I bet Raid Kitty could make that, beyond my skill in the game. Thank you as always for your thoughtful comments. Have a great week. New video coming this morning. ;)
It just baffles me that so many modern day suburbs aren't built like this from the start. I grew up in "suburbia" in Melbourne, Australia but in the older, inter-war suburbs that really sprung up around the 1930s, and to me they are a great model of what "suburbia" should be, because while people still lived the dream of a detached family home, the suburbs were so compact, walkable, built around train stations, and mixed-use with shops, parks, schools, churches, libraries, restaurants, etc all scattered not only along the main streets but even around the side streets. Every house was within a 15 minute walk of a train station (which itself was surrounded by shops, services & restaurants) and that was true for the next suburb over, and the next, and the next. It seems crazy that they stopped building suburbs that way at all.
I agree. The way that these neighborhoods were built with our walkability and accessibility is just baffling. I believe we should always design for people first, not cars. Glad you enJOYed this video.
@@JoyBuildsCities I did! Even from a non North American perspective it felt like you transformed our awful newer outer suburbs into our much better older middle suburbs, and I never understood why we'd stop building more like old ones. $$$ talks and the older walkable suburbs are worth twice as much as the newer car dependent ones, because walkability and public transport are desirable!
I love the tropical theme, I was going for that in a previous city but a bug killed the whole city :( but now I’m working on a new one with more skills to work with!
Aw, thank you!!
I love your walkable city! As a cyclist, cross sections are a bit scary though when the road is shared with cars. To avoid traffic collisions it might be an idea to make one lane roads, or t-sections, or even only use roads made with bricks (since these usually slow down cars). That way, the city will still be accessible by car, but will prioritize pedestrians and cyclists.
Welcome to the channel, and thank you! Oh that is a great idea!
Great neighborhood you created.
Love the pedestrian activity.
Well thought out.
I enJOYed it.
Thank you Dimitrius! I really appreciate the feedback.
can't believe I never saw this channel before, RUclips's algorithm needs some work... but anyway lol Love LOVE the philosophy of your city building. The best thing I liked about visiting New York City and DC was that I could walk everywhere or take the Subway/Metro to get to further distances. I wish we as a society would get with it and abolish suburban sprawl it's just so messed up that we waste all this space and then we have to use a car to get everywhere, further adding to the costs.
Also, I love your music, the 80's style ones in particular. Subbed!
Welcome on in! Glad to have you here. EnJOY the series!
You explained the principles really well, and the area looked gorgeous when you'd finished with it, but they always do 😉
Aww thank you Dubs!!
I love this. So much. It appeals deeply to my sensibilities.
Aw, thank you. Glad you enJOYed it!
So interesting how the pedestrianization principles you used matched how i approached mine!
That is so cool. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
I really like the way you put your FPV to be at realistic human eye level.
Everyone else places their "camera" way too high and it kills the immersion.
Thanks! I like to be down in the details.
Wow this is really excellent!! This may be my favorite 15 minute city I’ve seen from this game thus far. Really wished I was raised in some place like this where it wasn’t car dependent and in the middle of nowhere 😔😭
Same!! Where I live nothing I can walk to.
im shocked you only have 2k subs!! this video was very well made and everything was explained very well. I will def be subscribing and watching more! keep it up!
Thank you so much Gage, that is so kind if you.
i figured a solution for traffic which to get dedicated paths for pedestrians, cars, and bus. i saw it's what you're trying to done too, but it's complicated to build 3x more roads, even a 1-lane ones. also, from an aesthetic point of you, you don't want your city hidden behind roads, or your road hidden behind the ground.
Yes, I think I might need a walking path and bike path, they are getting really busy!
I wish it was legal to build neighborhoods like this in the US. Maybe the next generation will fix zoning.
Let's hope so!
I love the video .. I'm going to learn how to do basic video editing this weekend, then learn how to do a time lapse 😂 You've really inspired me to do something with me learning how to detail ... I'm just about 2 months in to the game in general.. Trying to figure out everything, and, modding is funny and, challenging at times😂 Maybe, it'll help someone like you're helping me ❤
This is so exciting. I’m glad to have inspired you. Come join the city of friends discord and there’s a bunch of creators in there and everyone’s always willing to help everyone out as we all start somewhere.
I'm so happy I stumbled across this channel whilst I was suffering from creativity block, the video was both relaxing and helpful, the music was super feel good and your voice is so soothing and relaxing to listen to, I'm definitely going to binge watch some of your stuff now 💖☺
Aw, thank you Queen! Welcome, and thanks for being here.
@@JoyBuildsCities You're very welcome! We need more lady builders! ❤
@@EmpressYama On my profile if you scroll down you’ll find a list of them. 💛
Immediately followed as soon as video started! Beautiful layout
aw, thank you and welcome Bobbi!
Thank you, that was awesome! Super relaxing and informative :) Love the vibes
Thank you so much, glad you enJOYed it!
As an armchiar urban planner who is into walkable, bikable, transit-able developments whose favorite city in the world in Amsterdam, I approve!
Oh wow! Thank you. Glad you enJOYed it!
really like how you added a lot of trees ! trees defentity make the neighborhood look prettier :)
Yes! I agree. Never too many tress. 😂
This is one of the most beautiful CS cities I’ve seen
Oh wow. Thank you!
you have a very relaxing voice, your videos sounds peaceful to me.
Aw, thank you!
@@JoyBuildsCities i guess being successfull on youtube is more about feeling that the youtuber is friendly rather than entertaining of skilled. you're so friendly with everyone, you probaly will be quickly an important figure of that platform. don't get headaches trying to be perfect, just stay yourself joy ;-)
@@Housestationlive thanks. I’m having fun and I hope others just enJOY it. 😉
@@JoyBuildsCities if one day you want request donations, be aware that some charity oriented platforms let you the possibility to keep 100%, meanwhile most popular crowdfunding solutions takes up to 70% of what you earn. can't give more details without being censored here !
I like the vibe of this channel; subscribed.
Thank you very much and welcome! Happy to have you here.
This was such a great video!! The city looks amazing!
Aw, thank you, glad you enJOYed it!
damn you're so good at this
Thanks!
Music choice was 👌👌👌👌 throughout the video
Thank you Dan!
Definitely I want to move to Mordalgo 🥺🥺✨✨
Aw, thank you!
I really want to make cities more walkable, but I am worried of AI, and that road diet will ruin my city due to traffic. Does more walkability simulate less cars on the road in Cities Skylines as it would in real life?
Adding in good pedestrian paths an bike nextwork will lower your traffic.
WHY CANT WE HAVE CITIES LIKE THIS
I wish we did!
I love this series. Congratulations on the views!! I can’t wait to get a Cities video this big..🤩🤩🤩
Aw, thank you YWBO! Keep at it!
Glad there’s female city builders out there
There’s a small handful of us they’re all listed on my main page. 🙏🏻
You’re the first I’ve found but once again glad u guys exist - will check out the rest
@@adamlewis5780 tell them Joy sent you. 😉
thanks for your time and your tips
You are so welcome!
I'd live there in a heartbeat.
Thank you! and me too.
City Skylines players being the city planners we actually need in society.
aw, thanks! I am coming back very soon!
oh love the mini university
Thanks Spuds!
I would be stoked to live in this neighborhood too! Detailing is not my strong suit so I've been watching your videos for ideas... are you using only vanilla trees/bushes for filling in the open spaces?
Yes, my detailing is predominantly vanilla. I use a very small selection of mods and asset. They’re all linked in my video if you want to check them out. And thank you for being here!
a game like planet coaster must be visually more pleasant to admire your creations and watch the virtual life you've created using what you've built for them. but building a park is different than building a city.
I have heard that I would enJOY that game before, I'm just hooked on CS. ;)
Ah, if only it worked like that. Imagine how crazy it would be if Cities Skylines 2 introduced NIMBYs into the build.
That would be!
@JoyBuildsCities 😳 Oh my goodness, I didn't think you'd reply to a year old video! Uh, I'm just going through the whole backlog of Mordalgo and it's been a lovely, relaxing and entertaining time! 😅
@@darknight910 Aw, thank you! I really try to respond to every single comment.
This was great! I would love to know what DLC you have enabled.
aw, thank you - all of them ;) I am hooked on this game. BUT you can totally play this game with no DLCs. Still just as fun!
@@JoyBuildsCities 😂 I think I need to get the After Dark and Plazas and Promenades expansions to get bike and pedestrian infrastructure
Very enjoyable.
aw, thank you! I am glad you enJOYed it ;)
Great,
which program are you using for creating the city?
It’s a game called Cities Skylines.
Great video, thank you!
You are so welcome. Glad you enJOYed it!
Especially nowadays where the gas prices are so high, I’d ride a bike.
Yes! Another reason to build pedestrian friendly cities.
Despite my pfp, I am tired of driving all the time. Driving is stressful and sucks up too much time. I wish I can live in your city in the video.
Commute times really cut into the time we could be spending doing things that make us happy. I myself don’t live in a walkable place so I build places I wish I could live.
World Economic Forum approves this
No they don't. WEF are too capitalistic to be thinking of this _obviously communist_ idea of sensible urbanism.