I cannot express in words how much I love the Altengrad project. Every day I go to RUclips with one goal - to see something new about this wonderful, lively, constantly changing city. I strongly embrace the author of such a grandiose project. thanks a lot
You said "Every day I go to RUclips with one goal - to see something new about this wonderful, lively, constantly changing city" I say.. "What's "Lively" about this city? You know everything you see was created on a computer.. and is still on a computer. Ha? So nothing "Lively" at all about it. :))
@@gattonpc What do you mean? Author's creativity and passion clearly shines through and the care with which he treats this project clearly makes it come alive for him and for us. Don't be square!
What about building an Olympics infrastructure? If that’s not a problem, you country could host the Olympics, all those cool villages and decorations, big beautiful stadium, that would be marvellous!
@@REDnBLACKnRED Prague prepared to host the 1980 Olympics, some buildings and infrastructure were even built for it (Hotel Olympik). The events of the Warsaw Pact invasion removed any hope to host the Olympics.
Finally new Altengrad episode! It looks just like Poruba district in Ostrava - Czech Republic. It's really amazing to see city that is really similliar to my own city being transformed into Cities: Skylines build!
i'm from Warsaw, Poland and i wanted to thank you for this series - been a fan since the start, but it is now that i really appreciate the educational value your videos have. eastern/central european architecture is indeed an undiscovered (and quite fascinating) gem
Wow, Nowa Huta citizen here :D When you started planning the buildings and streets I Was kinda surprised how it's similar to Nowa Huta and when you said you are inspired on Nowa Huta you maked me smile :D
Regarding cars, in Hungary, most of the pre-war cars were requisitioned or melted down during WW2, and after the war, ordinary citizens were forced to use fuel stamps from 1948. In 1951, around 7000 privately owned cars were, again, requisitioned by the state, leaving less than 1000 in private use, mainly for doctors, vets, those that required cars for their jobs, and, of course, celebrities. After the failed revolution of 1956, they authorized the sales of used cars in 1957, in order to brighten the mood, but this means that in the fifties very few people owned cars, and you could go a long time without hearing an engine.
That would explain my grandfather's love of cars. He escaped from Hungary in the mid fifties with my grandmother on foot. I always wondered why my grandfather rode a horse and my grandmother rode a bike when they were teenagers in the 40s, but your explanation really does make a lot of sense, at least for my family.
Suggestion you can consider: -make a tram line or highway connecting suburban areas of newly built blocks with industrial area (to give workers access to them), from my experience, unfortunately more realistic option is highway. Take a look at Warsaw and tunnel literally carved under the old town, and Lublin with big alley cutting through destroyed jewish quarter. Of course such a highway would be a big damage for Altengrad, however with the end of communism, you can always destroy it and for example make a long park in its place, which would be a nice attraction
In Germany the style that combines socialist architecture with renaissance elements is called "Zuckerbäckerstil" (confectioners style), because it looks like someone who made wedding cakes their whole life was somehow put in charge of designing a building.
Потому что чаще вместо него в СССР строили бетонные коробки где квартиры очень маленькие, не удобные и не красивые, потому что из-за войны разрушили жилье, а остальные жили в деревянных бараках, и поэтому нужно было дешёвое жилье для всей страны, а такие дома заселились 200 миллионов человек, если бы СССР использовал архитектуру как в видео, то это было бы прекрасно, но для этого не хватило денег
you know why? because most cities are built during hundreds of years, its hard to create a perfect city unless you demolish all the old stuff or just create a whole new city. but creating a new city rarely works.
@@quartz2460 Денег хватило бы, если была сохранена сталинская экономика. Скорость строительства была низкой в том числе из-за нехватки техники, которая как раз появилась в 60х. Только страна встала на другой путь экономики, которая считает прибыль в валюте а не количестве продукции. Эта система и првела к дефициту и серой картинке социализма, где все живут бедно, в серых будках и грязью за окном.
As somebody who lives in Ostrava and used to live in Poruba, this is extremely well done! You did a great job recreating the eastern bloc style of cities. Altengrad is my favorite cities skylines series of all time.
Those buildings are from Leninsky prospect. Also Warsaw and Berlin have a lot of this architecture but it was made more along main road rather than a new district
I can't wait to see the 70's and 80's housing projects. A lot of people say these prefabricated blocks of flats are plain and boring but I find them fascinating, especially planning huge areas filled with these blocks. When you're going to build 70's/80's you can take an example from Warsaw: southern part of Ursynów (Stokłosy, Imielin, Natolin residentials). This whole district was build along with the M1 metro line, so you can try to build some kind of transit oriented development too.
I'm going to mention collectivization, but probably not build anything around that, don't see many good assets and farms are not really my favorite projects.
I could imagine that at some point the race track would fall in decay over time as there was barely any motorsports activity in the east block compared to the west. Perhaps the local government would even decide to build new apartments on part of the track leaving only a fraction of the former track as an overgrown gem from the past. (And Perhaps after the fall of the east block they build a modern track near the historic one in the early 2000s) loving this build, keep it up! ✌️
Dear man, where do I begin?!? I am a student of European history with a core emphasis on 1928 to 1948 Germany and the Eastern Bloc. Listening to you narrate this episode brought back a flood of memories of my time in the Czech Republic, Germany, the UK, Hungary, Austria, and Poland. I have pored over photos and writings and architectural notes of the era and am absolutely blown away by your knowledge of the subject. Had I discovered you earlier, I would have saved myself a small fortune in college tuition and expenses. Ha ha ha..... I can't imagine what books you own, and what languages you can read. I am limited to English and Spanish and know that I lose much in translation when I read the writings of the era. I own Cities Skylines and that is how I found this video but there are no words. There are no words. I would like to contribute to your channel (or whatever you call it) but I don't want a subscription as I'm not quite sure I know what a subscription is. I hope you see this and will let me know where I can pay my "tuition" for one of the best ever narratives on the post-war era of Europe. Bravo! And I must say.... you've inspired me to possibly create my home country of Spain from the Franco years but I suspect I would fail miserably. Better I stick to the reading and leave the creating to you. ;-)
when I was looking for classical buildings, there were a lot of buildings of Spanish style forms, but unfortunately there are not so many of my native Russian buildings ): good luck!
You should check the WZ route from Warsaw, it is a main road with a bridge and the tunnel under the old town. Something like that would look great in Altengrad.
Wow... I found this playlist some days back... And during three days I have seen all 59 parts. Outstanding... This is not about game. This is trip into the history. Some of your videos can be projected in lessons of urbanism and architecture. Thank you for absolut, absolut, absolutly absolutorium... P.S. I bought CS (In sale, of course). And want to see some videos and learn anything about this game. Now, when I saw you, I have depressions and wouldn´t play anything... :D
The wide boulevard to the side of the estate looks like it was built with building trams in the future. Such thing ("space reserve for tram") was and still is done in Poland. Sometimes the tram project indeed did materialize, sometimes did not and we ended up with an oversized streets (e.g. Kondratowicza in Warsaw, which apparently will get a metro station before any tram).
I definitely prefer Stalinist architecture to the plainer brutalist architecture that came after it in many communist and socialist countries. As imposing as Stalinist buildings are, they are still aesthetically pleasing to look at due to their incorporation of various neo traditional architectural designs and features from the past (Moscow State University for example). The use of a mixture of Renaissance Revival, Neoclassical, Gothic and Art Deco brought about a new eclecticism which could be considered an architectural style in its own right. Brutalism on the other hand is an unimaginative eyesore in my opinion. Excellent idea with the trees by the way! I always find new housing developments a bit depressing and cold due to no soft edges from foliage. Over time as trees grow and mature they become more pleasant areas to live in however. Can’t wait to see more foliage and trees grow over time!
That's also because the Stalinist buildings in some countries are protected as cultural heritage so just because of that the places look good, maintained and without some dumb refurbishments.
Altengrad is missing one big thing, and thats industry. Hope you make few episodes just building them since you havent really done it in past (I kow you did, but most citys has some huge industry in "center")
I live in a district built according to these architectural principles by the Germans in 1942 in Poznań, Poland. The project was called Weststadt and it was really impressive. Fortunately, the Germans did not manage to complete it. I admit that today it is not designed like that anymore. The architects then had panache and a sense of space. You live here quite comfortably and thanks to the revitalization after the communist times, the district has become quite prestigious.
had to stop video at 5 minute mark just to tell you how much i like your videos being this informative. just watching you messing with PO would be a little boring thing to watch, but watching it AND listen to you explain history behind it is MAGNIFICENT!
With this *Newly Expansion Residential Area* ... meaning more *Workers* for *Altengrad Light/Heavy Industry Sector* . Time to Expanding *Industrial Area* (like *Steel Plant* or *Machine Parts Factory* )
You can look at "Falowiec" in Gdansk. It's building from end of 60's and from 70's. Mayby good inspiring in futute can be "Osiedle Gwiazdy" in Katowice.
I think you could add some areas with these sorts of buildings closer to the downtown. Also I’ve seen some of these areas built like seamless extensions of the downtown itself.
Funfact: sometimes those districts were planned to „make words” on maps. For example in Wrocław one of districts wrote on map a „Stalin”. Which is kinda funny because on German times of the city one of the hospitals were planned in the shape of svastika - which of course were changed in the next years. Also, about the project you made: It really looks kinda like Nowa Huta (I just feel a lack of trams, hope that Altengrad authorities will add them in some „5-year-plan”). I live in Warsaw next to Plac Konstytucji (Constitution Square) which was built in '52 as I remember and it look kinda different, but some things look very familiar (for example the arches), but this what in my opinion makes the climate of that place are the statues of some workers inside the walls - sadly it is quite impossible to do in game. Overall: That was one of the most brilliant episodes of that series in my opinion.
I highly adore your project, it's like watching a city growing up throughout the decades. For me, a Pole, Altengrad feel so cozy and both culturally and architecturally close, like the cities of Poland, Czechia and Germany I know from summer vacations. Great work!
I have been veeeery slowly getting caught up on this series for the past couple years and kept seeing this video’s thumbnail pop up in my recommendations over and over again. So glad I finally got to it! Definitely looking forward to getting fully caught up haha
I'm astonished by your background research/knowledge :) I tend to check certain informations you share, and I've never found a mistake yet! So glad you're using this game to promote historical and cultural knowledge.
Very much enjoying the history lessons Akuras. I grew up in 1960s Britain and to be honest Eastern Europe was not anything we really learnt about. So I very much appreciate your insights. Titan is an excellent builder, I'm sure he'll be very happy with you using and altering his buildings.
you could add a small settlement similiar to the former "Waldsiedlung" in the GDR. It was a secure housing zone excusivly for senior party members of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Maybe you could add military buildings and toll stations around it.
Я живу в подобном квартале в Санкт-Петербурге, Россия. Дома квартала очень комфортны для проживания: большая кубатура, много зелени, во дворах когда-то работали фонтаны (сейчас фонтаны трансформировались в цветочные клумбы), поэтому я считаю, что в твоем проекте очень не хватает фонтанов, деревьев и скамеек. В целом, твой проект прекрасен. Надеюсь на его дальнейшее развитие 😉
Another excellent episode! I would suggest adding more churches! Communism was broadly against religion but Christianity lived on and there are massive amounts of churches in Central Europe, many of them built alongside the new planned districts for the workers.
Say what you will of the regimes (to clarify, I can't say I personally support them), but the architecture (or at least how Arkruas made it here) doesn't look that bad. Like if it was done right, buildings like the ones made here look like they wouldn't be too uncomfortable to look at and, depending on density, live in. I can't wait to see the glammed-up future version with more plants and meshing in with whatever ends up being in the space the other 3/4 of the planned complex.
I'm from Krakow Poland, and i immediately recognised the similarity of this project to nowa Huta Great work! I thing its important to teach people about architecture so they can be more aware of the places we inhabit, and so we can push for the right change in our cities. Hopefully, in the direction of new urbanism, pedestrianisation, and better, more lively street's and more compact cities. Again I thank you for your contributions, and keep up the good work!❤
The city building genre needs more games set in this sort of setting and time period. Building in Eastern European locations with the architecture and such during the Cold War would be amazing. I know there is that game Workers and Resources, but I never could get into that game. Something more akin to Cities Skylines or something mixed with that setting would be awesome.
Love the idea behind this project a lot! I think that one thing Cities: Skylines does really poorly from the perspective of a simulation is allow the player to experience the evolution of a city over the course of generations - like cities in the real world. Cities in C:S are encased in amber, and do not evolve like a city does in the real world. I love that you were able to find a way to bring that extra level of realism to this project.
Man, that's impressing! I'm well known with these socrealistic buildings, because in my country, Poland, they are in every big city. After the war in Warsaw (where I live) communists built lots of these, the most popular socrealist buildings and neighbourhoods in Poland are: The Palace of Culture and Science (PKiN) in Warsaw. Muranów in Warsaw, Marszałkowska Dzielnica Mieszkaniowa (MDM) in Warsaw, Mariensztat in Warsaw, Osiedle Latawiec in Warsaw, Kościuszkowska Dzielnica Mieszkaniowa (KDM) in Wrocław, Nowa Huta in Kraków.
Massive cheers from your biggest fan from Poland :) Thank you especially for emphasizing that Poland and Czech Republic are Central, not Eastern Europe (people in the generally perceived 'West' for some reason think our countries are poor and third-world or something LOL)
This is great! It really reminds me of some early built neighborhoods (blocks) in New Belgrade. Im sure it will look even more similar once you come to 1970s modernism and brutalism. Cant wait 😁
I'm from Cuba, and although socialism is still our socioeconomic system such projects were never built, of course Cuban revolution succeeded in 1959 and by that time everything related to Stalin was long gone, anyway I love that style and envy sometimes those countries, and wish Cuba had more buildings designed and built in that way..... it would be really, really nice to see someplace in Altengrad designed to host military parades like the Red Square or even la Plaza de la Revolucion here in Havana
I'm watching you for a decent amount of time, and i just want to say that you're community is really awesome, im on discord too, and they always help me finding a solution. Thank you.
У тебя архитектурное образование? Невероятно круто получается, спасибо за твои труды!! Do you have an architectural background? Incredibly cool, thanks for all your hard work!!
Earlier this summer in Cracow i was totally bored and didn't have anything to do so I decided to take a tram all the way to Nowa Huta. It was cool, I really liked the vibe there and spent a lot of time just walking around. But then when I was like on the outskirts of the place it started raining and I've had a huge problem because since all the buildings were so similar and my phone died I totally couldn't find a way to the right bus stop and when I finally managed to get back to the center I was totally wet 😆
BTW it's very cool how since everything in Nowa Huta is so spacious and open there's a lot of space for wide sidewalks, grassy tram tracks and bike paths
У нас в России, в каждом городе остались напоминания от СССР, в виде "Хрущёвок" это просто бетонные коробки которые выглядят ужасно, и из них практически все города состоят, их никто не реставрирует как в Германии или Польше, они просто стоят и портят вид города
What about a soviet realist university like the MGU or the Financial university of Moscow to be built in this new neighborhood ? By the way thanks a lot for your work, not only is it highly entertaining and informative it's a real work of art and so full of life
New universities appeared in Middle Europe around 60's and 70's when post-war demographic boom started growing up so there is very little socrealistic scholar buildings similar to Moscow ones in Middle Europe.
I love this video and series. I was just wondering, when the decades progress, will you go around and make an episode (or do it on stream) of 'growing' the trees planted in new areas by replacing them with larger ones?
Communist housing wasn't ugly. The ugly ones you see in the Western media are the lower-end cheap housing just for poor and the desperate to have a roof. While in a capitalist country the poor and the desperate would just freeze to death outside.
@@Gamma78. You ignored my point entirely. Making a communist city or teaching about communist history doesnt mean he is preaching communism. Ive already made my points about communism in my last reply but you ignored it entirely. Either ways its his channel and videos, he can do what he wants. You can stfu, continue malding or find a western youtuber and criclejerk about "communism bad!1!1!" in the comments there.
Maybe a civilian airport could be built in either the 50s or 60s and later be expanded in the 90s with the higher amt of tourism that came after the end of th cold war
Hi! Can someone tell me where to get those flat platforms that he uses as PO? I can’t seem to find them in the workshop, and I don’t know what I’m looking for 😅 Great video by the way!
That's the problem with this game, you can change probabilities of using a car, but not amount of parked cars, you either have to ban it or not, have cars parked everywhere or nowhere. So for these time periods it looks best if I just use prop parked cars for now.
I cannot express in words how much I love the Altengrad project. Every day I go to RUclips with one goal - to see something new about this wonderful, lively, constantly changing city. I strongly embrace the author of such a grandiose project. thanks a lot
You said "Every day I go to RUclips with one goal - to see something new about this wonderful, lively, constantly changing city" I say.. "What's "Lively" about this city? You know everything you see was created on a computer.. and is still on a computer. Ha? So nothing "Lively" at all about it. :))
@@gattonpc What do you mean? Author's creativity and passion clearly shines through and the care with which he treats this project clearly makes it come alive for him and for us. Don't be square!
What about building an Olympics infrastructure? If that’s not a problem, you country could host the Olympics, all those cool villages and decorations, big beautiful stadium, that would be marvellous!
Altengrad does not seem like a city big enough to be chosen for the Olympics. It usually takes place in very large capital cities.
@@REDnBLACKnRED Prague prepared to host the 1980 Olympics, some buildings and infrastructure were even built for it (Hotel Olympik). The events of the Warsaw Pact invasion removed any hope to host the Olympics.
@@REDnBLACKnRED Tbh IRL it would have much more citizens then 100K
Like the Olympic city in Munich to the games in 1972, it looks really cool.
I already have that on my list of possibilities, still not decided, but leaning towards yes.
Finally new Altengrad episode!
It looks just like Poruba district in Ostrava - Czech Republic. It's really amazing to see city that is really similliar to my own city being transformed into Cities: Skylines build!
Já na to video kliknul doslova jenom protože na thumbnailu byl oblouk
@@michalskach5750 Přímo. xd
Akorát teď v realitě vypadá ještě líp protože ho opravují.
i'm from Warsaw, Poland and i wanted to thank you for this series - been a fan since the start, but it is now that i really appreciate the educational value your videos have. eastern/central european architecture is indeed an undiscovered (and quite fascinating) gem
Wow, Nowa Huta citizen here :D When you started planning the buildings and streets I Was kinda surprised how it's similar to Nowa Huta and when you said you are inspired on Nowa Huta you maked me smile :D
Regarding cars, in Hungary, most of the pre-war cars were requisitioned or melted down during WW2, and after the war, ordinary citizens were forced to use fuel stamps from 1948. In 1951, around 7000 privately owned cars were, again, requisitioned by the state, leaving less than 1000 in private use, mainly for doctors, vets, those that required cars for their jobs, and, of course, celebrities. After the failed revolution of 1956, they authorized the sales of used cars in 1957, in order to brighten the mood, but this means that in the fifties very few people owned cars, and you could go a long time without hearing an engine.
Do you know of any online sources that deal with that?
That would explain my grandfather's love of cars. He escaped from Hungary in the mid fifties with my grandmother on foot. I always wondered why my grandfather rode a horse and my grandmother rode a bike when they were teenagers in the 40s, but your explanation really does make a lot of sense, at least for my family.
@@Akruas I tried to reply twice so far, my comments just disappear.
@@DoctorFaktor I think RUclips autodeletes comments with links in them put some spaces in between them or something
Sounds nice, perhaps public transport was better implemented.
Too many cars these days and half the people who can drive probably shouldn't be.
Greetings from Nowa Huta, Kraków! I love your Altengrad project. A really great episode to watch.
Też pomyślałem że to właśnie Nowa Huta
Same. Greetings from Prądnik Biały
Suggestion you can consider:
-make a tram line or highway connecting suburban areas of newly built blocks with industrial area (to give workers access to them), from my experience, unfortunately more realistic option is highway.
Take a look at Warsaw and tunnel literally carved under the old town, and Lublin with big alley cutting through destroyed jewish quarter.
Of course such a highway would be a big damage for Altengrad, however with the end of communism, you can always destroy it and for example make a long park in its place, which would be a nice attraction
I plan something like that yes, but no spoilers :)
@@Akruas the realistic highway, or the much more efficient tramway?
@@jan-lukas Both
In Germany the style that combines socialist architecture with renaissance elements is called "Zuckerbäckerstil" (confectioners style), because it looks like someone who made wedding cakes their whole life was somehow put in charge of designing a building.
This type of architecture is so underated in the real world.
Потому что чаще вместо него в СССР строили бетонные коробки где квартиры очень маленькие, не удобные и не красивые, потому что из-за войны разрушили жилье, а остальные жили в деревянных бараках, и поэтому нужно было дешёвое жилье для всей страны, а такие дома заселились 200 миллионов человек, если бы СССР использовал архитектуру как в видео, то это было бы прекрасно, но для этого не хватило денег
@@quartz2460 согласна
you know why? because most cities are built during hundreds of years, its hard to create a perfect city unless you demolish all the old stuff or just create a whole new city. but creating a new city rarely works.
@@quartz2460 Денег хватило бы, если была сохранена сталинская экономика. Скорость строительства была низкой в том числе из-за нехватки техники, которая как раз появилась в 60х. Только страна встала на другой путь экономики, которая считает прибыль в валюте а не количестве продукции. Эта система и првела к дефициту и серой картинке социализма, где все живут бедно, в серых будках и грязью за окном.
Thank the heavens. Because it's usually depressing.
As somebody who lives in Ostrava and used to live in Poruba, this is extremely well done! You did a great job recreating the eastern bloc style of cities. Altengrad is my favorite cities skylines series of all time.
Those buildings are from Leninsky prospect. Also Warsaw and Berlin have a lot of this architecture but it was made more along main road rather than a new district
This is so good.
In the future years you should extende the tram to this place when it will no longer be in the midel of no where.
That is planned, intentionally didn't build it now to make a point in some later tram talk.
I can't wait to see the 70's and 80's housing projects. A lot of people say these prefabricated blocks of flats are plain and boring but I find them fascinating, especially planning huge areas filled with these blocks. When you're going to build 70's/80's you can take an example from Warsaw: southern part of Ursynów (Stokłosy, Imielin, Natolin residentials). This whole district was build along with the M1 metro line, so you can try to build some kind of transit oriented development too.
Maybe you will consider about building PGR-państwowe gospodarstwo rolne (state-owned farms) like in Poland
I'm going to mention collectivization, but probably not build anything around that, don't see many good assets and farms are not really my favorite projects.
I could imagine that at some point the race track would fall in decay over time as there was barely any motorsports activity in the east block compared to the west. Perhaps the local government would even decide to build new apartments on part of the track leaving only a fraction of the former track as an overgrown gem from the past. (And Perhaps after the fall of the east block they build a modern track near the historic one in the early 2000s) loving this build, keep it up! ✌️
Dear man, where do I begin?!? I am a student of European history with a core emphasis on 1928 to 1948 Germany and the Eastern Bloc. Listening to you narrate this episode brought back a flood of memories of my time in the Czech Republic, Germany, the UK, Hungary, Austria, and Poland. I have pored over photos and writings and architectural notes of the era and am absolutely blown away by your knowledge of the subject. Had I discovered you earlier, I would have saved myself a small fortune in college tuition and expenses. Ha ha ha..... I can't imagine what books you own, and what languages you can read. I am limited to English and Spanish and know that I lose much in translation when I read the writings of the era. I own Cities Skylines and that is how I found this video but there are no words. There are no words. I would like to contribute to your channel (or whatever you call it) but I don't want a subscription as I'm not quite sure I know what a subscription is. I hope you see this and will let me know where I can pay my "tuition" for one of the best ever narratives on the post-war era of Europe. Bravo! And I must say.... you've inspired me to possibly create my home country of Spain from the Franco years but I suspect I would fail miserably. Better I stick to the reading and leave the creating to you. ;-)
when I was looking for classical buildings, there were a lot of buildings of Spanish style forms, but unfortunately there are not so many of my native Russian buildings ): good luck!
You should check the WZ route from Warsaw, it is a main road with a bridge and the tunnel under the old town. Something like that would look great in Altengrad.
He already made the Śląsko-Dąbrowski bridge, to be honest I don't know where I'm the city is a place and needing for the road tunnel
Wow... I found this playlist some days back... And during three days I have seen all 59 parts. Outstanding... This is not about game. This is trip into the history. Some of your videos can be projected in lessons of urbanism and architecture. Thank you for absolut, absolut, absolutly absolutorium...
P.S. I bought CS (In sale, of course). And want to see some videos and learn anything about this game. Now, when I saw you, I have depressions and wouldn´t play anything... :D
Were you able to find a playlist? I find that I have to search for each individual episode to watch it in order.
The wide boulevard to the side of the estate looks like it was built with building trams in the future. Such thing ("space reserve for tram") was and still is done in Poland. Sometimes the tram project indeed did materialize, sometimes did not and we ended up with an oversized streets (e.g. Kondratowicza in Warsaw, which apparently will get a metro station before any tram).
I definitely prefer Stalinist architecture to the plainer brutalist architecture that came after it in many communist and socialist countries. As imposing as Stalinist buildings are, they are still aesthetically pleasing to look at due to their incorporation of various neo traditional architectural designs and features from the past (Moscow State University for example).
The use of a mixture of Renaissance Revival, Neoclassical, Gothic and Art Deco brought about a new eclecticism which could be considered an architectural style in its own right. Brutalism on the other hand is an unimaginative eyesore in my opinion.
Excellent idea with the trees by the way! I always find new housing developments a bit depressing and cold due to no soft edges from foliage. Over time as trees grow and mature they become more pleasant areas to live in however. Can’t wait to see more foliage and trees grow over time!
That's also because the Stalinist buildings in some countries are protected as cultural heritage so just because of that the places look good, maintained and without some dumb refurbishments.
I really enjoy this section of Altengrad. I’m a great admirer of Cold War Soviet architecture. So I’m glad you added this to your city. Great job!👍🏫
Altengrad is missing one big thing, and thats industry. Hope you make few episodes just building them since you havent really done it in past (I kow you did, but most citys has some huge industry in "center")
I live in a district built according to these architectural principles by the Germans in 1942 in Poznań, Poland. The project was called Weststadt and it was really impressive. Fortunately, the Germans did not manage to complete it. I admit that today it is not designed like that anymore. The architects then had panache and a sense of space. You live here quite comfortably and thanks to the revitalization after the communist times, the district has become quite prestigious.
had to stop video at 5 minute mark just to tell you how much i like your videos being this informative. just watching you messing with PO would be a little boring thing to watch, but watching it AND listen to you explain history behind it is MAGNIFICENT!
With this *Newly Expansion Residential Area* ... meaning more *Workers* for *Altengrad Light/Heavy Industry Sector* .
Time to Expanding *Industrial Area* (like *Steel Plant* or *Machine Parts Factory* )
You can look at "Falowiec" in Gdansk. It's building from end of 60's and from 70's. Mayby good inspiring in futute can be "Osiedle Gwiazdy" in Katowice.
I think you could add some areas with these sorts of buildings closer to the downtown. Also I’ve seen some of these areas built like seamless extensions of the downtown itself.
Funfact: sometimes those districts were planned to „make words” on maps. For example in Wrocław one of districts wrote on map a „Stalin”. Which is kinda funny because on German times of the city one of the hospitals were planned in the shape of svastika - which of course were changed in the next years.
Also, about the project you made: It really looks kinda like Nowa Huta (I just feel a lack of trams, hope that Altengrad authorities will add them in some „5-year-plan”). I live in Warsaw next to Plac Konstytucji (Constitution Square) which was built in '52 as I remember and it look kinda different, but some things look very familiar (for example the arches), but this what in my opinion makes the climate of that place are the statues of some workers inside the walls - sadly it is quite impossible to do in game.
Overall: That was one of the most brilliant episodes of that series in my opinion.
Where can I find it on the map?
I live in Wrocław and have never heard about any of those. Are you sure these are not just urban legends?
I highly adore your project, it's like watching a city growing up throughout the decades. For me, a Pole, Altengrad feel so cozy and both culturally and architecturally close, like the cities of Poland, Czechia and Germany I know from summer vacations. Great work!
I have been veeeery slowly getting caught up on this series for the past couple years and kept seeing this video’s thumbnail pop up in my recommendations over and over again. So glad I finally got to it!
Definitely looking forward to getting fully caught up haha
I'm astonished by your background research/knowledge :) I tend to check certain informations you share, and I've never found a mistake yet! So glad you're using this game to promote historical and cultural knowledge.
Very much enjoying the history lessons Akuras. I grew up in 1960s Britain and to be honest Eastern Europe was not anything we really learnt about. So I very much appreciate your insights.
Titan is an excellent builder, I'm sure he'll be very happy with you using and altering his buildings.
Cool! Thanks for the interesting information. The new districts reminds me a lot about my visit to Nowa Huta in Krakow :-)
you could add a small settlement similiar to the former "Waldsiedlung" in the GDR. It was a secure housing zone excusivly for senior party members of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany. Maybe you could add military buildings and toll stations around it.
Damn modders turned Cities: Skylines into a 3D modelling software.
Я живу в подобном квартале в Санкт-Петербурге, Россия. Дома квартала очень комфортны для проживания: большая кубатура, много зелени, во дворах когда-то работали фонтаны (сейчас фонтаны трансформировались в цветочные клумбы), поэтому я считаю, что в твоем проекте очень не хватает фонтанов, деревьев и скамеек. В целом, твой проект прекрасен. Надеюсь на его дальнейшее развитие 😉
В Польше тогда не строили фонтанов, возможно потому что считали их дорогой лишностю.
I'm out of Words.... the level of detailing is just
Another excellent episode! I would suggest adding more churches! Communism was broadly against religion but Christianity lived on and there are massive amounts of churches in Central Europe, many of them built alongside the new planned districts for the workers.
I love this series so much, with the historical setting and a very unique concept.
Welcome to Poruba. ❤️ Zdravím z těchto krásných hornických bytů, které jsi stavěl.
It's still the best looking Ostravas neighborhood.
Say what you will of the regimes (to clarify, I can't say I personally support them), but the architecture (or at least how Arkruas made it here) doesn't look that bad.
Like if it was done right, buildings like the ones made here look like they wouldn't be too uncomfortable to look at and, depending on density, live in.
I can't wait to see the glammed-up future version with more plants and meshing in with whatever ends up being in the space the other 3/4 of the planned complex.
Dying to see Altengrad become a place with an actually successful political and economic system.
absolutely love your city, you're extremely creative and historically accurate in your series
I'm from Krakow Poland, and i immediately recognised the similarity of this project to nowa Huta Great work! I thing its important to teach people about architecture so they can be more aware of the places we inhabit, and so we can push for the right change in our cities. Hopefully, in the direction of new urbanism, pedestrianisation, and better, more lively street's and more compact cities. Again I thank you for your contributions, and keep up the good work!❤
Will the city soon be getting a airport or will that be for one of the later eras?
The city building genre needs more games set in this sort of setting and time period. Building in Eastern European locations with the architecture and such during the Cold War would be amazing.
I know there is that game Workers and Resources, but I never could get into that game. Something more akin to Cities Skylines or something mixed with that setting would be awesome.
You can really see the effort put into this! The river area reminds me a bit of Budapest
Love the idea behind this project a lot! I think that one thing Cities: Skylines does really poorly from the perspective of a simulation is allow the player to experience the evolution of a city over the course of generations - like cities in the real world. Cities in C:S are encased in amber, and do not evolve like a city does in the real world. I love that you were able to find a way to bring that extra level of realism to this project.
The “entrance” building (the half circle) to the residential area looks like a socialist baroque style. Very nice
Man, that's impressing! I'm well known with these socrealistic buildings, because in my country, Poland, they are in every big city. After the war in Warsaw (where I live) communists built lots of these, the most popular socrealist buildings and neighbourhoods in Poland are: The Palace of Culture and Science (PKiN) in Warsaw. Muranów in Warsaw, Marszałkowska Dzielnica Mieszkaniowa (MDM) in Warsaw, Mariensztat in Warsaw, Osiedle Latawiec in Warsaw, Kościuszkowska Dzielnica Mieszkaniowa (KDM) in Wrocław, Nowa Huta in Kraków.
recommended this vid on my front page, my boy 3d modeling inside a simcity, mad respect
A history lesson never was more interesting :)
Literally my favourite thing on youtube!!
Massive cheers from your biggest fan from Poland :) Thank you especially for emphasizing that Poland and Czech Republic are Central, not Eastern Europe (people in the generally perceived 'West' for some reason think our countries are poor and third-world or something LOL)
I love that the track and field is literally just a marsh
I love this project! The red rooves look so beautiful! You are very talented builder!
Cannot wait to see what’s gonna happen in 1960s
This is great! It really reminds me of some early built neighborhoods (blocks) in New Belgrade. Im sure it will look even more similar once you come to 1970s modernism and brutalism. Cant wait 😁
0:20 - The new bridge is nearly finished.
Very very beautiful city BTW. Ignore the haters. This is just a game!
Not enough trees, bushes, etc. Such districts and cities in Russia resemble a forest park
I'm from Cuba, and although socialism is still our socioeconomic system such projects were never built, of course Cuban revolution succeeded in 1959 and by that time everything related to Stalin was long gone, anyway I love that style and envy sometimes those countries, and wish Cuba had more buildings designed and built in that way..... it would be really, really nice to see someplace in Altengrad designed to host military parades like the Red Square or even la Plaza de la Revolucion here in Havana
I'm watching you for a decent amount of time, and i just want to say that you're community is really awesome, im on discord too, and they always help me finding a solution. Thank you.
It HITS amazing than London, UK's estates and the Admiralty Arch from Trafalgar Square!
When does altengrad get asphalt roads btw? I think the US started getting them in the 1940s in the cities. When does altengrad get them?
I came for city skyline subject and stayed for the history lessons lol
new altengrad episode
Good job, kamrad. 1st secretary is apleased.
У тебя архитектурное образование? Невероятно круто получается, спасибо за твои труды!!
Do you have an architectural background? Incredibly cool, thanks for all your hard work!!
Не, он вроде инженер
you add so much interesting buildings to this town. I like this style. it look beautyful
Altengrad looks a lot like Prague.
Will Altengrad get a power plant?
Nuclear/coal
This series is incredible! Keep it up!
I hope you add some trolleybusses eventually
Earlier this summer in Cracow i was totally bored and didn't have anything to do so I decided to take a tram all the way to Nowa Huta. It was cool, I really liked the vibe there and spent a lot of time just walking around. But then when I was like on the outskirts of the place it started raining and I've had a huge problem because since all the buildings were so similar and my phone died I totally couldn't find a way to the right bus stop and when I finally managed to get back to the center I was totally wet 😆
BTW it's very cool how since everything in Nowa Huta is so spacious and open there's a lot of space for wide sidewalks, grassy tram tracks and bike paths
У нас в России, в каждом городе остались напоминания от СССР, в виде "Хрущёвок" это просто бетонные коробки которые выглядят ужасно, и из них практически все города состоят, их никто не реставрирует как в Германии или Польше, они просто стоят и портят вид города
What about a soviet realist university like the MGU or the Financial university of Moscow to be built in this new neighborhood ? By the way thanks a lot for your work, not only is it highly entertaining and informative it's a real work of art and so full of life
New universities appeared in Middle Europe around 60's and 70's when post-war demographic boom started growing up so there is very little socrealistic scholar buildings similar to Moscow ones in Middle Europe.
The map itself reminded me the map of Nizhny Novgorod - the city of Russia
Absolutely loving this series!
I love this video and series. I was just wondering, when the decades progress, will you go around and make an episode (or do it on stream) of 'growing' the trees planted in new areas by replacing them with larger ones?
I will, all I need is to click them and press one button with Tree Anarchy nowadays.
@@Akruas Oh great, that's so convenient.
i love this build. it makes communist housing in a none ugly way
Communist housing wasn't ugly. The ugly ones you see in the Western media are the lower-end cheap housing just for poor and the desperate to have a roof. While in a capitalist country the poor and the desperate would just freeze to death outside.
@@bummer7736 this guy preases comunism lol
@@Gamma78. You ignored my point entirely. Making a communist city or teaching about communist history doesnt mean he is preaching communism. Ive already made my points about communism in my last reply but you ignored it entirely.
Either ways its his channel and videos, he can do what he wants. You can stfu, continue malding or find a western youtuber and criclejerk about "communism bad!1!1!" in the comments there.
@@bummer7736 bro stop talking like a scientist. Ever heard anything about humor
Maybe a civilian airport could be built in either the 50s or 60s and later be expanded in the 90s with the higher amt of tourism that came after the end of th cold war
Will the saveGame be available on Steam Workshop somehow to take a Look By myself?
holy fuck that is nice, seriously man, congratulations
you definitely have skills! all i can build is a problem-having grid lol
17:38
The bus depot has one way out, not two ways in and out. That's a mistake.
it would be nice if there was a mod we could use with all of these prebuilt buildings we could place.
You are using the tree anarchy mod, but... which key are you pressing on, to scale all those trees???
Anyway... really fantastic work!!!!
It's in the mod's settings.
@@Akruas Ok, thank you!!!
Best series ever!
Hi! Can someone tell me where to get those flat platforms that he uses as PO? I can’t seem to find them in the workshop, and I don’t know what I’m looking for 😅 Great video by the way!
Platforms?
@@Akruas For example if you have an uneven ground section, you place a platform over with procedural objects to make it flat. Those platforms
I use this with PO but not for leveling terrain steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=881291183
@@Akruas That's what I'm looking for! Thank you so much :)
What the next episode idea like is it still in the 1950s or the start of the 1960s
Still 50s for the next one.
As a person who lives in the area of ex yugoslavia this is exactly how our cities look
You can make those small parking lots functional unless they fill with cars too much
That's the problem with this game, you can change probabilities of using a car, but not amount of parked cars, you either have to ban it or not, have cars parked everywhere or nowhere. So for these time periods it looks best if I just use prop parked cars for now.
Will the roads change to asphalt/concrete instead of cobblestones?
Probable in the next decade or so
To be honest some of them in real life didn't change until today.
Yes but that is rare so most of them will change, some could stay for example in the pedestrian old town.
And he probable just change the texture of concret se it is all going to change back in the same time
Fishing village and fish market
I have been waiting for this
7:50 They used Google Maps back in the 50s?
Yes that's what the sentence means.
I'm only 34, but Google Maps didn't exist before... ummm, I want to say 2010.
@@Charles_Anthony yeah, sounds about right, maybe even a year later or so
hello, what are the assets called you used for the build. :52 mark in video. i cant find them in ws or didnt catch the name in video. thanks.
what mark?
@@Akruas awh the 1's in the thumb nail and at the 0:52 mark near the begaing of the video. thanks🙂
@@jacob-sk6bh steamcommunity.com/id/9783499/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710&p=1
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2363269588
@@Akruas thanks! 👍
Oh my god, I cant believe it, a soviet estile city!!!!! thank you so much!! Thats really incredible for socialist people like me.