@@Infrastructurist My city was at 6 million yesterday and I wasn't getting that much hourly money and I was getting a bit worried about what to do 😅 So we have different ways of dealing with this lol
I think a bus route from the train station to the new education hub could be great, especially if all the students from the surrounding areas might have to commute to the schools in Queen's Cape
Maybe even with a tram line along the coastal road, or on separate track alongside the bay, like the trams in San Francisco, at Embarcadero, or the Belgian coastal tramway
Something I thought about and already posted in the last video (and will post now for the last time before getting on someone's nerves), is if you want to add the cathedral to the city? Boston, as well as many other east coast cities, feature churches within the city centre/downtown, which can, but don't have to be surrounded by high density buildings. I also quite like the look of modern high density buildings compared directly to their old counterparts. E.g., New York, but also Boston's Trinity Church.
Really love this episode and wanted to volunteer an idea for the name of the college/university complex: Gill and Edes University. Benjamin Edes and John Gill were the publishers of the Boston Gazette in colonial Boston and published writing from revolutionary figures like Paul Revere and Samuel Adams that helped set off the American Revolution. In my head it’s a storied small/medium sized liberal arts school best known for its journalism and creative writing programs. (Revere Polytechnic also has a nice ring to it 😊)
the bigger peninsula should be a little older village / town which would have a small grid of 2-3 blocks and possibly a small pier (probably not in use) or a beach. Some old row houses along the main road and maybe a gas station and a hotel. There could also be dorms for the students.
Possibly, the new college could be Windsor College, and the one in Coleridge could be just John's Institute instead. This could be to resemble the Windsor vs. Cole family, in the property wars spanning over Fort Johnson.
9:28 the layout looks like a lobster or crab hand, can i petiton a vote for the name? Like lobster peek, lobster bay? Can u make a lookout point? Sounds fun to me
With every new city you start, I feel them getting further and further from feeling like a video game and more of an actual city I can go visit! The lore/history, the environment, the services, detail, everything! ❤❤❤
I love the amount of trees in Queens Cape. Without the medium density buildings sticking up over the tree tops, one would never know there was a residential area there. You did a good job! Also, love the first person of the college campus.
I really enjoyed the first person experience of the city! Please do more. Perhaps a driving tour across/ throughout the city would be cool. Great job as always Infra😎
I am sot sure about the parking lots. it looks the part but its prime real estate down a boulevard with views of the future downtown. No contractor will use that valuable space with parking lots. Apart from that, amazing build. I Absolutely love the work your doing👌
Wouldn't it make more sense to have a small college town with a multi use (sort of dense) center and then the single family homes around it instead of having 10 story buildings next to single family homes? Because the random height difference would make for a very uncomfortable living atmosphere
Hollesley Bay College is named after Lord Robert Hollesley, an 18th-century aristocrat who owned the coastal estate where the campus now stands. After surviving a shipwreck near the bay, Hollesley dedicated the land to education and intellectual pursuits. His vision for a place where nature and learning coexisted inspired the transformation of his estate into a centre for scholars. In 1911, the estate was officially converted into a college, with its name honouring both the bay where Hollesley's life was saved and his lasting commitment to education.
so in high school and elementary school in the US, they would never face a main road like that with no way around. they always have a big loop driveway that parents can use to wait and pick up their kids, otherwise they would back into the main road and into the intersection. i know space was limited here but something to keep in mind xoxoxoxo ❤❤❤ love ur vids
The Cole Estate doesn't sound too good when you are from England. This sounds like it would be a council estate here (basically huge social housing estate). It would more likely be called Cole House, Coleridge House, Cole Manor etc. In the UK these sorts of places are called Stately Homes.
I always get excited when I see a new Easthaven Country video in my feed. I think Queen's Cape could do with a bit of commercial near the offices maybe. The college students especially would want some sort of convenience store or something near campus. Great build as always
Always look forward to your videos. Avid player myself. When I'm reclaiming land and add peninsulas I change from the default brush to get more natural terraforming. 5:48
being an older Astrayan, l see all those trees around the community and flashbacks to "black bushfire aftermath news footage" memories. Oak probably doesn't burn like oily Eucalyptus does. Thank you for giving me inspiration and a better understanding how the game is played (I'm still breaking out of simcity 1 and 2k fill every tile mode). and Thursday.
I love the 1st person walk throughs! I do suggest you put them at the end of the video so you don't risk losing some of your more impatient audience. It's all about metrics, analytics, and the algorithm on RUclips 😆
lol this man keeps blue balling me. I've been excited to see a detailed downtown build since u announced this island. plz downtown next :D . love the series
I it would be cool if you made a 'billionairs row' on the Queen's Cape peninsula. It's a prime piece of real estate, you got an almost 360 view of the bay and ocean acces for their giant yachts.
Amazing stuff once again, Infra! Wasn't sure about the mix of detached houses and bigger apartment blocks but it worked out well! As for suggestions, I'd love to see a country/tennis club and restaurant at the tip of the peninsula. Sort of how you did it back in the CS1 days in the rural US build.
There is not much commercial out here in queens cape Id imagine more of small cafe and restros, since we have a such a educational and office area nearby (maybe a beach also) Also we need a bus route from train station to here and also to the industrial port thats is about to come
You need the fencing along the water's edge, along the walkway. How many children are going to drown with an elementary school that close to the water's edge ? That would be more inland. A small parking garage would be nice to conserve space and maximize parking.
There is a lack of sports fields at the old college, so maybe this should be the "MIT" of the county...maybe "Easthaven Intitute of Technology", for example?
Tremendous build. Love the first person campus walk through. I would like to recommend Oakwood for the college name. After all, the oak tree is the prominent flora.
I genuinely love the university and its waterfront construction! My suggestion for the name would be Loews University: Jameson Loews could own a large estate further down the peninsula and may have been an owner of a development firm for the city and later become a philanthropist leading towards his funding of a local college. I'm thinking he has a background in civil engineering and so the university naturally started off as a more engineering based institution and has now become an internationally recognized school for engineering and math.
Copied: "Cape Ann, Massachusetts Located about 30 miles northeast of Boston, Cape Ann includes the town of Rockport and city of Gloucester. The area was a fishing and shipping port, and became known in the 1830s for its high quality granite; the stone was mainly cut into paving blocks. Finnish immigrants began to arrive at Cape Ann in large numbers in the 1870s, and worked the granite quarries until the Depression and popularity of concrete doomed the industry. They had an active and thriving community, and between the 1920s and 1940s there were about 5,000 people of Finnish descent living on Cape Ann." Finnish Americans worked mainly in mining and forest companies and Finns are really in touch with nature would be nice to add small suburb maybe with forest park near to it. Maybe like blended neighborhood since Finland is small country and not lot of people living in it and big % moved to America in 1860-1940. Maybe near port and mining & forest intrustry since they mostly worked in hard working workplaces. Also would be nice tribute to makers of the game since they are Finnish. Idk if many people would like this kind of neighborhood but just came to mind. Thanks for great content!
This came together well! It definitely is giving university vibes with the mix of houses and apartments. Maybe some houses are like frat and sorority houses and other campus organizations. While apartments are like student living. Even the office buildings remind me of like university owned buildings. Looking forward to the growth of the area! Maybe some commercial development soon too.
It's so disconcerting hearing you say "yoink" when placing things, which I realized is because the word has a very strong association with taking/grabbing/snatching things, not putting/placing them. Like when deleting a sign or a path.
I say Coleridge Queens college. With Coleridges storied background he/she started the college to better his workers education and his neighboring citizens future generations. I picked the name due to the area called Queens cape and Coleridges storied background.
probably a nitpick and not a big thing. But adding a fence to the cole estate would add to the idea of it being like a landmark and a building of promenince.
Video two of suggesting "The Promanade" for Bay Street. Also, Queens Cape seems game for gentrification, so maybe a new light rail system from downtown to the collage would be in order? And a couple of modern apartments replacing some of the single family homes. Include at least one construction site! Not sure how you're gonna route the light rail through Coleridge, but it'll would definitely something that'd happen in a city like this!
I'd love to see a big old factory or old factory condos somewhere, either nestled in between the highway and railway in Windsor or the industrial area to show off the cities industrial roots! I'd also be happy to see the Queens Cape college having a university added and the rest of that cape being turned into a prestigious Ivy League university town.
I got a backstory for this college, which i would like to be named Mulberry Prep College: back in the old times, we're talking about 20 years after the foundation of Fort John (which i presume somewhere around the Independence war), the college main building was actually a mansion of Fort John founder's son, Charles Mulberry, who loved education, but he died in the war, and so, this building was rebuilt and repurposed as a college somewhere in early 1800s
You should make some of the homes in queens cape big gilded age mansions like in Newport road island, you could even say the collage used to be one of them
I still think a vineyard would be cool between Queen's and Coleridge to break up the scenery and have a nice transition between districts. Would be something fancy to show that you are getting into a higher wealth area. Also a nicely manicured golf course could also be an interesting addition on one of these new peninsulas?
I imagine the Cole mansion now being used as a museum or library. I've also found that 2x2 or 3x3 low-rent housing works well as dorm towers for college campuses.
Make the Cole Mansion remain a private mansion not a public park! It would be much better to have it act as if they remained in the home despite the growing density around them and they fought of losing the house to the government for new buildings.
In the US, the mansion wouldn't be in the city. It would be either surrounded by residential neighborhoods or on its own. It would most likely be one of those small islands with its own pier. Even if you're thinking they're a robber-baron-era family, their estate would not be in a city, to maximize the land they own. In the city, they'd likely have a Georgian Brownstone or Federal row home that allowed them to do business, but the family estate would be outside of town where they can better control the view and value of their land. For example, most of the elite families in New York may have penthouses in the citiy, but the mansion/estates are either edging the water banks or in the Hamptons.
You should build a large shopping center/mall complex in Queen’s Bay. All those students, office workers and rich residents would love somewhere to spend their money! If you make it large and open, it can also be like an “outlet mall” park that gives tourists somewhere to go while they visit the bay & the college
Hey, man! Love your cities! ❤ Just wanted to know if you are going to make more videos on the European/ Scandinavian city you built some time ago. Loved that series a lot.❤
You can name the college "Corbett and Poole College" and the backstory is something along the lines of the first settlement in the area was led by two men Named William Corbett and James Poole. The college was named in their honor and is located in Queen's Cape, an area to commemorate the Queen. I think the name fits well, and I know of many real world colleges that are named in similar ways. Especially private colleges which are not government regulated.
The intersection on Evergreen to Strawberry needs to have the colleges initials in big letters in the middle empty space. Maybe Fort John University kinda basic but a big FJU in the intersection would look really cool!
For the college campus, since it is situated on queens cape. Maybe the Royal Family visited once from England to officially open the site, and the city of Fort John named the college, Victoria college. And then named the elementary school, Victoria college prep
I think realistically it is a TERRIBLE idea to have such a complex like an University so close to basically a flooding plain, It is much more reasonable to have it near the center of the island, near some altitude.
Dansk: "Jeg har virkelig glædet mig til at se det nyeste afsnit i dag! En kop kaffe og to lækre flødeboller ved siden af - det er den perfekte måde at afslutte aftenen på." Engelsk: "I’ve really been looking forward to watching the latest episode today! A cup of coffee and two delicious cream buns on the side - it’s the perfect way to end the evening."
I don’t know if it’s the same everywhere else but in Scotland, especially the along west coast, long and thin peninsulas like where the collage was placed are often called fingers
Next time you make a port, making a breakwater might look really cool, it brings the natural landscape blend in more with the highly modified world humans have made, and irl it serves an important purpose
I think it would be a great idea to add a college town for queen's cape. You already have the density of the commercial buildings along the coast, and the campus is big enough that I think a street or 2 of college town next to the college would make a ton of sense!
That's really good idea blending miduim density apartments with single family home in an office park and educational concentration area but I think it's misses some low density commercials, shops, retailers and some parks or gardens like dog park or playground for the neighborhood
How about Winchester College? Originally a naval academy during colonial times. Perhaps you could add a small boathouse to the back of the library as a nod to its history?
It would be nice to have a little walking bridge to a park across the water behind the library on the other peninsula. Thanks for the content as always 🙏
I'm watching this video kinda late but i think you should add some commercial in the peninsula. I get that you're going for a more suburban neighbourhood but it's an old one which would have probably been established before strict zoning guidelines, maybe even before the car was so widespread, and as of right now anything the people living there might need they have to take the one and only road out of there to get to fort john proper. I think it makes sense to have a bit of commercial for your every day groceries, a hair saloon, etc.
Idea for College area: the backstory is that the Cole Family were farmers who became very wealthy and sold land as the demand for the bay grew for trade. Lady Cole decided to teach the farm workers children to read under an oak tree that still stands in front of the college. "Oakdale College" was named in honour of this.
This also justifies the obsession with oak trees, and the older houses around the college could be where the workers lived, but demand grew for the land with access to the bay. You could go for an area possibly called "Oakdale Quarters" and "Oakdale Bay" for the fancy houses where you could possibly use an asset or create a custom old bay converted into a yacht club. The reason it is fancy is because land value was high due to good business for the incoming traders and navy sailors who needed hotels, supplies and taverns. And the Fort was built to protect important Navy soldiers and naval assets.
The new area is a “food desert” as there are no grocery stores, also no gas stations or mini mart. A college would have a pizzeria near by, sandwich shops, and possibly a few bars. Looks great just needs more amenities.
One of the penninsulas should be named after the hel penninsula near gdansk in poland, perhaps playing a similar role in the war as the hel pennisula had in ww2. It could maybe have ruins and/ military stationed there?
I can imagine the local islanders calling the aria close to the college crabs claw caps or something of the sort in its residence to water and peculiar shape.
Queen's Collage actually sounds good. Maybe it was founded before the revolutionary war and named after the English queen (Charlotte maybe?). After the war they took out the personal name, but it kept the title and people kept calling it "The Queen's Collage" and it stuck. Hence, Queen's Cape. Maybe the cape got the name from the collage and not contrary wise.
The college should be called Queen’s Cape College. Founded before the revolution in honor of the Queen. And maybe extend the light rail to the area so that traffic doesn’t get backed up once the area is filled in.
29:28 lmao, I think you should do a whole episode where you do 1st person and just people watch in high density areas and just comment on their choice of clothing/etc. that hat comment lmfao XD
Love the city. But as a city in Massachusetts then it’s missing one big thing if you want to make it realistic - links to the American revolution history. Maybe name the collage after prominent people from Massachusetts like John Hancock, Samuel adams. John Adam’s. Another idea is having America themed street names like liberty street, independence avenue etc.
The tall resedential buildings near the uni should maybe be newer, reasoning would be student housing, as many universities in the U.S. have had decade-long growth sperts where they built new housing towers that clash with the surrounding area. Like no kidding, you could have a 1950s to 1960s style block right next to a 2000s-era block.
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Someone please give me as much confidence and peace as Infra has while spending the entirety of his city's budget on bushes
Hahahahah, we can always go in debt bruv, its no problem
@@Infrastructurist My city was at 6 million yesterday and I wasn't getting that much hourly money and I was getting a bit worried about what to do 😅 So we have different ways of dealing with this lol
@@who_is_artis Cities aren't a households. Debt of a couple millions is NBD.
@@Infrastructuristwink wink
I think a bus route from the train station to the new education hub could be great, especially if all the students from the surrounding areas might have to commute to the schools in Queen's Cape
Maybe even with a tram line along the coastal road, or on separate track alongside the bay, like the trams in San Francisco, at Embarcadero, or the Belgian coastal tramway
I was thinking tram line as well! A modern one added recently to allow Queens Cape to develop more.
This is supposed to be a US city. Public transport is communism. Rah! 🦅
Something I thought about and already posted in the last video (and will post now for the last time before getting on someone's nerves), is if you want to add the cathedral to the city? Boston, as well as many other east coast cities, feature churches within the city centre/downtown, which can, but don't have to be surrounded by high density buildings.
I also quite like the look of modern high density buildings compared directly to their old counterparts. E.g., New York, but also Boston's Trinity Church.
The only church in the game is Notre Dame and thats really big so until custom assets can be added probably not.
I love the first person of the college, definitely beautiful
big missed opportunity to allow mixed use buildings on the street facing the college.
Ties in well with the gentrification idea I had for Queens Cape, with a light rail system!
Really love this episode and wanted to volunteer an idea for the name of the college/university complex: Gill and Edes University. Benjamin Edes and John Gill were the publishers of the Boston Gazette in colonial Boston and published writing from revolutionary figures like Paul Revere and Samuel Adams that helped set off the American Revolution. In my head it’s a storied small/medium sized liberal arts school best known for its journalism and creative writing programs. (Revere Polytechnic also has a nice ring to it 😊)
the bigger peninsula should be a little older village / town which would have a small grid of 2-3 blocks and possibly a small pier (probably not in use) or a beach. Some old row houses along the main road and maybe a gas station and a hotel. There could also be dorms for the students.
I love that idea!
Great video, adding some dorms next to the college and some cafes/bars nearby I feel would really complete the look, also a stadium would look great
I agree, I really wanna see like a cohesive US style college look
make a huge technical college on the other side, you have your very own MIT and Harvard
Possibly, the new college could be Windsor College, and the one in Coleridge could be just John's Institute instead. This could be to resemble the Windsor vs. Cole family, in the property wars spanning over Fort Johnson.
9:28 the layout looks like a lobster or crab hand, can i petiton a vote for the name? Like lobster peek, lobster bay? Can u make a lookout point? Sounds fun to me
I second this
With every new city you start, I feel them getting further and further from feeling like a video game and more of an actual city I can go visit! The lore/history, the environment, the services, detail, everything! ❤❤❤
I love the amount of trees in Queens Cape. Without the medium density buildings sticking up over the tree tops, one would never know there was a residential area there. You did a good job! Also, love the first person of the college campus.
"I don't know how much this is in freedom units" haahhahahhahaa
As both a MA and US resident, this just made me absolutely delighted. A perfect jab.
You should make a bus conection to the school campus, and make sidewalks at the college.
I really enjoyed the first person experience of the city! Please do more. Perhaps a driving tour across/ throughout the city would be cool.
Great job as always Infra😎
I am sot sure about the parking lots. it looks the part but its prime real estate down a boulevard with views of the future downtown. No contractor will use that valuable space with parking lots. Apart from that, amazing build. I Absolutely love the work your doing👌
Wouldn't it make more sense to have a small college town with a multi use (sort of dense) center and then the single family homes around it instead of having 10 story buildings next to single family homes? Because the random height difference would make for a very uncomfortable living atmosphere
It would, but property developers are trying to buy all the single family homes, so most of them are hold outs.
This is normal though
Hollesley Bay College is named after Lord Robert Hollesley, an 18th-century aristocrat who owned the coastal estate where the campus now stands. After surviving a shipwreck near the bay, Hollesley dedicated the land to education and intellectual pursuits. His vision for a place where nature and learning coexisted inspired the transformation of his estate into a centre for scholars. In 1911, the estate was officially converted into a college, with its name honouring both the bay where Hollesley's life was saved and his lasting commitment to education.
so in high school and elementary school in the US, they would never face a main road like that with no way around. they always have a big loop driveway that parents can use to wait and pick up their kids, otherwise they would back into the main road and into the intersection. i know space was limited here but something to keep in mind xoxoxoxo ❤❤❤ love ur vids
Crab Claw Bay
I just wanted to write the same
My exact thoughts.
5:38 perfect name for this!
The Cole Estate doesn't sound too good when you are from England. This sounds like it would be a council estate here (basically huge social housing estate). It would more likely be called Cole House, Coleridge House, Cole Manor etc. In the UK these sorts of places are called Stately Homes.
I always get excited when I see a new Easthaven Country video in my feed. I think Queen's Cape could do with a bit of commercial near the offices maybe. The college students especially would want some sort of convenience store or something near campus. Great build as always
Always look forward to your videos. Avid player myself. When I'm reclaiming land and add peninsulas I change from the default brush to get more natural terraforming. 5:48
First it looked like a chode. Then a lobster claw. Looking forward to seeing where these peninsulas end up! :D
being an older Astrayan, l see all those trees around the community and flashbacks to "black bushfire aftermath news footage" memories.
Oak probably doesn't burn like oily Eucalyptus does.
Thank you for giving me inspiration and a better understanding how the game is played (I'm still breaking out of simcity 1 and 2k fill every tile mode).
and Thursday.
I love the 1st person walk throughs! I do suggest you put them at the end of the video so you don't risk losing some of your more impatient audience. It's all about metrics, analytics, and the algorithm on RUclips 😆
lol this man keeps blue balling me. I've been excited to see a detailed downtown build since u announced this island. plz downtown next :D . love the series
I’m not sure if a mod exists, but it would be so cool if you could make cobble roads which are quite common in historical cities such as this
I it would be cool if you made a 'billionairs row' on the Queen's Cape peninsula. It's a prime piece of real estate, you got an almost 360 view of the bay and ocean acces for their giant yachts.
Amazing stuff once again, Infra! Wasn't sure about the mix of detached houses and bigger apartment blocks but it worked out well!
As for suggestions, I'd love to see a country/tennis club and restaurant at the tip of the peninsula. Sort of how you did it back in the CS1 days in the rural US build.
There is not much commercial out here in queens cape
Id imagine more of small cafe and restros, since we have a such a educational and office area nearby (maybe a beach also)
Also we need a bus route from train station to here and also to the industrial port thats is about to come
I think that maybe, you could add a palace or something old in one of the Capes to symbolize "Queen's Cape"
You need the fencing along the water's edge, along the walkway. How many children are going to drown with an elementary school that close to the water's edge ? That would be more inland. A small parking garage would be nice to conserve space and maximize parking.
There is a lack of sports fields at the old college, so maybe this should be the "MIT" of the county...maybe "Easthaven Intitute of Technology", for example?
Tremendous build. Love the first person campus walk through. I would like to recommend Oakwood for the college name. After all, the oak tree is the prominent flora.
I genuinely love the university and its waterfront construction! My suggestion for the name would be Loews University: Jameson Loews could own a large estate further down the peninsula and may have been an owner of a development firm for the city and later become a philanthropist leading towards his funding of a local college. I'm thinking he has a background in civil engineering and so the university naturally started off as a more engineering based institution and has now become an internationally recognized school for engineering and math.
I love the 1st person walk ,and your first date comments is hilarious 😂 😂
Love what you've done with Queen's Cape and as always great music selection :)
Say it with me. We need more first person!
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"Cape Ann, Massachusetts
Located about 30 miles northeast of Boston, Cape Ann includes the town of Rockport and city of Gloucester. The area was a fishing and shipping port, and became known in the 1830s for its high quality granite; the stone was mainly cut into paving blocks.
Finnish immigrants began to arrive at Cape Ann in large numbers in the 1870s, and worked the granite quarries until the Depression and popularity of concrete doomed the industry. They had an active and thriving community, and between the 1920s and 1940s there were about 5,000 people of Finnish descent living on Cape Ann."
Finnish Americans worked mainly in mining and forest companies and Finns are really in touch with nature would be nice to add small suburb maybe with forest park near to it. Maybe like blended neighborhood since Finland is small country and not lot of people living in it and big % moved to America in 1860-1940.
Maybe near port and mining & forest intrustry since they mostly worked in hard working workplaces.
Also would be nice tribute to makers of the game since they are Finnish. Idk if many people would like this kind of neighborhood but just came to mind. Thanks for great content!
This came together well! It definitely is giving university vibes with the mix of houses and apartments. Maybe some houses are like frat and sorority houses and other campus organizations. While apartments are like student living. Even the office buildings remind me of like university owned buildings. Looking forward to the growth of the area! Maybe some commercial development soon too.
Just drink a few beers and your terraforming will be random. Works for me
It's so disconcerting hearing you say "yoink" when placing things, which I realized is because the word has a very strong association with taking/grabbing/snatching things, not putting/placing them. Like when deleting a sign or a path.
I say Coleridge Queens college. With Coleridges storied background he/she started the college to better his workers education and his neighboring citizens future generations. I picked the name due to the area called Queens cape and Coleridges storied background.
Queens College is clean, sounds like a small liberal arts school that’s perfect
probably a nitpick and not a big thing. But adding a fence to the cole estate would add to the idea of it being like a landmark and a building of promenince.
Video two of suggesting "The Promanade" for Bay Street. Also, Queens Cape seems game for gentrification, so maybe a new light rail system from downtown to the collage would be in order? And a couple of modern apartments replacing some of the single family homes. Include at least one construction site! Not sure how you're gonna route the light rail through Coleridge, but it'll would definitely something that'd happen in a city like this!
I'd love to see a big old factory or old factory condos somewhere, either nestled in between the highway and railway in Windsor or the industrial area to show off the cities industrial roots!
I'd also be happy to see the Queens Cape college having a university added and the rest of that cape being turned into a prestigious Ivy League university town.
I got a backstory for this college, which i would like to be named Mulberry Prep College: back in the old times, we're talking about 20 years after the foundation of Fort John (which i presume somewhere around the Independence war), the college main building was actually a mansion of Fort John founder's son, Charles Mulberry, who loved education, but he died in the war, and so, this building was rebuilt and repurposed as a college somewhere in early 1800s
You should make some of the homes in queens cape big gilded age mansions like in Newport road island, you could even say the collage used to be one of them
I still think a vineyard would be cool between Queen's and Coleridge to break up the scenery and have a nice transition between districts. Would be something fancy to show that you are getting into a higher wealth area. Also a nicely manicured golf course could also be an interesting addition on one of these new peninsulas?
Love the build! I think you should reconsider the road around the education complex and make it more urban / walkable
And I think you should add a fence around the Cole Estate, a fancy one :)
I imagine the Cole mansion now being used as a museum or library. I've also found that 2x2 or 3x3 low-rent housing works well as dorm towers for college campuses.
Make the Cole Mansion remain a private mansion not a public park! It would be much better to have it act as if they remained in the home despite the growing density around them and they fought of losing the house to the government for new buildings.
In the US, the mansion wouldn't be in the city. It would be either surrounded by residential neighborhoods or on its own. It would most likely be one of those small islands with its own pier. Even if you're thinking they're a robber-baron-era family, their estate would not be in a city, to maximize the land they own. In the city, they'd likely have a Georgian Brownstone or Federal row home that allowed them to do business, but the family estate would be outside of town where they can better control the view and value of their land.
For example, most of the elite families in New York may have penthouses in the citiy, but the mansion/estates are either edging the water banks or in the Hamptons.
You should build a large shopping center/mall complex in Queen’s Bay. All those students, office workers and rich residents would love somewhere to spend their money! If you make it large and open, it can also be like an “outlet mall” park that gives tourists somewhere to go while they visit the bay & the college
Hey, man! Love your cities! ❤
Just wanted to know if you are going to make more videos on the European/ Scandinavian city you built some time ago. Loved that series a lot.❤
Still waiting for oak trees to grow on oak avenue..
Queens cape turn out very beautiful , good job!
You can name the college "Corbett and Poole College" and the backstory is something along the lines of the first settlement in the area was led by two men Named William Corbett and James Poole. The college was named in their honor and is located in Queen's Cape, an area to commemorate the Queen. I think the name fits well, and I know of many real world colleges that are named in similar ways. Especially private colleges which are not government regulated.
The peninsulas off Queen's Cape could be based off/inspired by Cape Cod in Massachusetts, or the Hamptons in Long Island.
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if i was living in the mansion i think i would like to have some privacy. :)
I think it's probably meant to be a museum rather than an actual living space.
@@sublimatedsnake yeah okay
Queens Cape should be changed to Hibernian Peninsula or Hibernia Bay for the links to the Irish in Massachusetts.
The intersection on Evergreen to Strawberry needs to have the colleges initials in big letters in the middle empty space. Maybe Fort John University kinda basic but a big FJU in the intersection would look really cool!
For the college campus, since it is situated on queens cape. Maybe the Royal Family visited once from England to officially open the site, and the city of Fort John named the college, Victoria college. And then named the elementary school, Victoria college prep
I think realistically it is a TERRIBLE idea to have such a complex like an University so close to basically a flooding plain, It is much more reasonable to have it near the center of the island, near some altitude.
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I don’t know if it’s the same everywhere else but in Scotland, especially the along west coast, long and thin peninsulas like where the collage was placed are often called fingers
Next time you make a port, making a breakwater might look really cool, it brings the natural landscape blend in more with the highly modified world humans have made, and irl it serves an important purpose
As a Massachusetts resident, I have to say, I wish they'd hire you as a City Planner!
I think it would be a great idea to add a college town for queen's cape. You already have the density of the commercial buildings along the coast, and the campus is big enough that I think a street or 2 of college town next to the college would make a ton of sense!
Part of queens cape should have that upper NYC/ Close in Long Island single family housing, super duper crammed in houses that are nearly town homes.
That's really good idea blending miduim density apartments with single family home in an office park and educational concentration area but I think it's misses some low density commercials, shops, retailers and some parks or gardens like dog park or playground for the neighborhood
How about Winchester College? Originally a naval academy during colonial times. Perhaps you could add a small boathouse to the back of the library as a nod to its history?
Good lord, that school traffic would be a nightmare
I think having an express ferry from downtown Fort John to the new campus could be great. Boston has a few ferries to bridge the bay in real life
If you are not already familiar, check out the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston. Just across from MIT.
It would be nice to have a little walking bridge to a park across the water behind the library on the other peninsula. Thanks for the content as always 🙏
I'm watching this video kinda late but i think you should add some commercial in the peninsula. I get that you're going for a more suburban neighbourhood but it's an old one which would have probably been established before strict zoning guidelines, maybe even before the car was so widespread, and as of right now anything the people living there might need they have to take the one and only road out of there to get to fort john proper. I think it makes sense to have a bit of commercial for your every day groceries, a hair saloon, etc.
Don’t forget about student housing near the college. Add a few low rent buildings to emulate that imo
We should name it Queens College. It’s in the Queen’s Cape district and it’s already a dope name so
Idea for College area: the backstory is that the Cole Family were farmers who became very wealthy and sold land as the demand for the bay grew for trade. Lady Cole decided to teach the farm workers children to read under an oak tree that still stands in front of the college. "Oakdale College" was named in honour of this.
This also justifies the obsession with oak trees, and the older houses around the college could be where the workers lived, but demand grew for the land with access to the bay. You could go for an area possibly called "Oakdale Quarters" and "Oakdale Bay" for the fancy houses where you could possibly use an asset or create a custom old bay converted into a yacht club. The reason it is fancy is because land value was high due to good business for the incoming traders and navy sailors who needed hotels, supplies and taverns. And the Fort was built to protect important Navy soldiers and naval assets.
I believe that is time to build the mountain range on RiverView. Some kind of national park, with a little "villa", camp zones, etc. 😮
The new area is a “food desert” as there are no grocery stores, also no gas stations or mini mart. A college would have a pizzeria near by, sandwich shops, and possibly a few bars. Looks great just needs more amenities.
One of the penninsulas should be named after the hel penninsula near gdansk in poland, perhaps playing a similar role in the war as the hel pennisula had in ww2. It could maybe have ruins and/ military stationed there?
I can imagine the local islanders calling the aria close to the college crabs claw caps or something of the sort in its residence to water and peculiar shape.
Who knew adding a crab claw to the bottom of the island would make the whole thing look like a prawn
Queen's Collage actually sounds good. Maybe it was founded before the revolutionary war and named after the English queen (Charlotte maybe?). After the war they took out the personal name, but it kept the title and people kept calling it "The Queen's Collage" and it stuck. Hence, Queen's Cape. Maybe the cape got the name from the collage and not contrary wise.
“probably not too old, i mean, this is America…” the way i felt so offended lmaooo 🤣🤣
You should put a lighthouse on one of the islands, that would look great! Maybe a small port too?
8:33 This clearly is not actually Earth, and we're looking at a buried Onslaught-class wreckage. Onslaught Promontory?
The cole estate made me think of an entire Batman saga but with Bruce Cole, the grandson of Cole the founder or something lol 🦇
Since the peninsulas look like a crab or lobster claw I would call it Queen's Claw :)
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The college should be called Queen’s Cape College. Founded before the revolution in honor of the Queen. And maybe extend the light rail to the area so that traffic doesn’t get backed up once the area is filled in.
22:25 🤣🤣 the anxiety 😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣
29:28 lmao, I think you should do a whole episode where you do 1st person and just people watch in high density areas and just comment on their choice of clothing/etc. that hat comment lmfao XD
1st person view is the best portion always, pls don't shorten it at all :D
Love the city. But as a city in Massachusetts then it’s missing one big thing if you want to make it realistic - links to the American revolution history. Maybe name the collage after prominent people from Massachusetts like John Hancock, Samuel adams. John Adam’s. Another idea is having America themed street names like liberty street, independence avenue etc.
The tall resedential buildings near the uni should maybe be newer, reasoning would be student housing, as many universities in the U.S. have had decade-long growth sperts where they built new housing towers that clash with the surrounding area. Like no kidding, you could have a 1950s to 1960s style block right next to a 2000s-era block.