I really wish they had smaller rail stations, like a lot of the smaller stations in Europe that just have 2 tracks and maybe 1 bypass for express/cargo trains instead of having every train station be a behemoth with 6 tracks or something.

Its so refreshing not to see another American block by block by block build! Well done! It looks stunning!

terrific town - my favorite especially how you took it from the early stages of a very rural town into this urban evolution - you working in urban planning, makes a lot of sense now seeing how realistic and how much thought you put into your towns

I hope they make a separate low density terraced housing like 2 stories tall while also having medium density terreced housing 3-5 stories tall.

St. Luke reminds me a lot about a Danish city called Svendborg. You got the little island (Thurø) connected by bridge to the main city (Svendborg) and the Svendborg sprawls out to these small villages. I think many European cities look alike, but still funny

Actually, if you define density in terms of addresses or population per unit of surface area, apartment buildings like in Amsterdam's 19th. century neighborhoods (and many similar neighborhoods in European cities) are high density. Not the very highest, but getting there. I do agree with you that terraced houses built since 1970 or so, are low density in the Netherlands. However neighborhoods with older 'stadswoningen' are often medium density. The main difference being that those older neighborhoods were designed with way less parking space and often without front gardens.

I absolutely agree with you that row houses are low density. And with the (very) high demand for low density in the game, you should be able to satisfy this demand with both detached houses with gardens and row houses. I play vanilla / 0 mods, I hope they change this in the base game.

It's really interesting how he picked up on the styles of park in the UK. This is known as English Landscape Gardening, and is quite a prominant garden design philosophy.

I love your series so much. Always anticipating the next episode like crazy and it never disappoints. Gotta say your way of playing is the most I've enjoyed watching CS so far

I want a mod that makes row houses count as low density.

I really appreciate your style, perspective, and 'pro-tips'. I feel like when I am finally able to start building in a few weeks, my cities will be better based on many of the things I was able to learn watching you do your thing. Kudos!

the reason i wanted a new version was that you might be back. you're the best with such an intelligent take on how to use this game.

can’t wait for the next one!

Wow. All of your layout/planning ended up looking AMAZING in the cinematic.

I am so happy to hear that you found a job in the field you studied for! I myself was inspired by CS and games like it to study a similar field and am currently working on my final year thesis which involves traffic simulation! I really find games like these, and ppl like you who showcase them, help inspire ppl. So thank you and keep it up

Definitely the best series, enjoy the early emphasis on what does the rural environment look like and what did it evolve into. Made my last cities skylines 1 city with rural villages connected by a country highway that would turn into main Street of the cities

Your playing style is so inspiring, love the organic way the city grows ! Can't wait to play it myself !

Finally something different other than what I've been seeing on KZfaq. Great job

With regards to the university, you do get some in the UK that are on the peripheries of cities rather than right in the centre. Leeds Beckett University's Headingley Campus and The University of York are two examples in my area that come to mind. I'm sure there are others too.

I love the way you build. I live in the US in New England. I never build cities on a grid as I like to grow them organically taking into account the history in my area. Scattering industry and commercial throughout the towns and villages. So many of the builders videos are based on grids and don’t look realistic at all. Thank you for providing this type of building perspective.

In a lot of old British port cities and towns, you sometimes have both residential areas and businesses quite close to the docks and ports. In the 1800's you would have had lots of the dock workers living quite close to the industries.

this is the best cs2 build for me yet. i love your attention to detail. coming from an electric engineer i was very happy you made a sectioning substation and put most of the lines overground

Stumbled across your videos last week and honestly, love that this isn't just another American style block work. It's really making me want to play CS2! Love how you've taken inspiration from a few different places across England. As someone who's lived over a fair bit of it, if you're still looking at some places, East Yorkshire could work in terms of bringing rural with a docks area. You've got the market towns of Beverley, Driffield and then the port of Hull/over to Grimsby area. Also Avonmouth/Bristol in S. Glos. Also yes, we love roundabouts in the UK. Looking forward to seeing how the city turns out.

This was an amazing work, Silavert, as always ;)

been looking forward to your video in particular. Glad this is generating you viewers and subs you deserve it great stuff.

Embracing chaos in your design process is next level (compared to all the other KZfaqrs).

I'm in love with the way you lay your suburban roads. You really make the game look so good.

What you said about adapting grids is VERY relevant here in Australia because of how high our uptake of roof-top solar is. I think the energy generated by it across the country amounts to the largest (virtual) power plant here? At one point there was even calls to place a moratorium on new installations of rooftop solar because of how fast they were going in and how slow the grid was able to be adapted.

The rain cinematic made me feel right at home

Haha I live in County Durham and worked most my life around Newcastle, the huge train station and links look like the area around Birtley. I’m looking forward to building this myself. 👍👍

I love seeing a european building the best city and landscape I've seen in the game. Finally no american suburbia 😂. Greetings from Belgium!

You do see railway lines going through motorway junctions in some places in the UK, so I do think that could have worked. The Junction between the M25 and M4 has one going through it. The Hangar lane roundabout between the A40 and A406 has a tube station in the middle of it. On the topic of trees, I like the growth, but yeah the death is gonna be annoying. Trees can live for hundreds of years irl, so given that you've played 4 in game years it's a bit silly that they're dying. I suspect that unless that changes modders will add invincible trees lol

Regarding high voltage power lines underground... electricity is by magnetic field. High voltage mean the field is larger, you do not want that in ground, or need much space between wire and ground it is in. Otherwise the ground will be expensive in resistance, and reduce power transmission. If you put high in the air, you do not need to worry about size of the field, can use much higher voltages. Another important mention, the resistance mentioned previously make heat. If in air, the heat dissipates easy. If in ground you need to provide cooling system for the line. The heat reduces ability to transmit electricity, and cooling system are expensive in capital and energy.

Finally! I've been waiting for this the last couple hours 😄

I really appreciate this format where you give us your thoughts about how to develop a city. Regarding "row houses" in the US, there is a movement toward more dense housing neighborhoods, but they're called townhouses. You'll see buildings where there are three or four multi story side by side homes in a single building under one roof. They typically are all in the same style throughout the neighborhood.

Beautiful and realistic as always. You are so skilled!

Wonderful example of a more livable city design. More europeian architecture and compact dense city planning. Away with the strodes and sq of parking spaces... in with the cozy villages!

Does the single family residential zoned homes ever upgrade over time to nicer homes? They all look exactly the same. I would really love to create luxury neighborhoods where mansions exist.

This is the video i've been waiting for all day!

Thanks Silv - Here in Colorado, USA we have Single Family, Multi Family side by side (townhouses, row houses, duplexes), Multi Family Condo (usually three stories no elevator though more and more they are including an elevator for the older crowd) and then the High Rise Condo (everything over 3 stories with elevators). We also have Mobile Home parks and RV parks. Technically the RV parks might be considered a form of commercial as they are for short term stays like Hotel and Motel. Mobile Home parks have lots that are leased for longer periods or owned. Apartment buildings are usually three stories. High Rise apartment buildings are a thing but very limited in location. Since tourism is big business in Colorado there are motels and hotels everywhere up in the mountains. There are also a bunch of cabins and condos (time shares) as well as RV parks. I'm looking forward to the asset creations folks come up with so that we get more variety.

Love these videos! I'd love to see a video on how you research cities to make these beautiful realistic builds. I guess its also due to your rct3 skills haha

Greetings from Newcastle! Glad our City could inspire you! 😊

Your road layout is a work of art

wow, this map literally feels like something we would see in England, ao much inspiration here, i tried to replicate this but i kept having high demand for high residential buildings and it would start building huuuuge apartment blocks, very challenging to build a series of small towns that function like a small uk town and that's with me using a map with a European theme

When talking about the split into high and low voltage power, I always need to think of the game "Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic". I can only recommend taking a look into. It definitely settles less on eye candy but much more on the mechanics. Genre wise I would consider it a City Builder although it's right in the middle between Transport Fever and Cities Skylines in terms of management of Goods and Citizens with its own touch added.

If you look at many British cities, especially in the east, many of the treelines within cities are historic boundaries between fields that predate the area being built up

Great video, I love listening to you.

I would LOVE to see you build a city on a map full of farms and tiny roads and I would love (even more) to play myself on such a map myself to!! Lekker bezig trouwens!

I said oh lord jesus, its a fire. aint nobody got time for that!

very relaxing to watch this. love it

Legend. Great build again, and then you quote Hofstadter. He's surely the wisest man ever born 😂

For people that want to see what the city wall he talks about would look like. Take a look at the east side of Utrecht in the netherlands. The defences were part of the Waterlinie, a line of forts to protect the heart of the netherlands (the randstad).

I recently went on a trip with my family to Cornwall... on our way there (5 hour trip from where I live), we passed 35 roundabouts. That was just crazy... especially considering that we probably spent between 1-2 hours on the motorway, so that would mean we passed almost 10 roundabouts every hour.

Again, incredibly beautiful, I will be inspired to build your videos. There are 5 days left!

We even use roundabouts as speed controls, it's not unusual to drive through a residential area and find absolutely tiny roundabouts at every junction meant to slow you down like speed bumps.

Lekker bezig, van alle streamers vind ik jouw stad één van de mooist uitgewerkte. Ben benieuwd hoe het afloopt! Kan niet wachten tot CS2 beschikbaar is. Helaas heb ik geen PC tot mn beschikking, maar ik kijk uit naar alle prachtige creaties die zeker weten op YT te vinden zullen zijn, o.a. van jou :-)

Don't you think it would be great if pedestrian paths would automatically turn into stairs when their steepness is increased ?

Thank you for your thoughts and approach to the game for thes videos! I'm really hoping that the performance discussion embargo isn't due to poor performance - but I think from watching all the content over the last few weeks that I'm in no rush to play until a bunch of QOL mods are out.

This is spot on. Totally agree with the low/high density comments.

My suggestion for the name of the new town is Brookton. -ton is obviously the suffix that means "town"; I got "brook" from the Old English word for "bridge", "brycg" (the "y" in it makes a short "oo" sound). The word "brook" also can mean "creek" or "small stream" so it's a nice little double meaning there. I suggest this because it's logical that there would have been bridges there in old times maybe even before a sizeable community began to build there and as a community began to grow it took its name Brycgtūn from the bridge, and over time that name evolved into its modern form. A different suggested name: Brocgecester (pronounced "Broster"). The "Brocg" comes from the same place, but with a less-evolved spelling, but the "cester" comes from an Old English word "cester"/"chester"/"caster" which meant "fort". It implies the existence of an ancient Roman fort in the area, which for an English town would be hardly surprising. A possible variation of that could be Brocgechester or Brochester (both pronounced "Brochester") if you like that more.

So this probably was not in the pre-release build but for anyone watching this video later, you can remove multiple trees if you select a tree to plant and then use the brush option. If you right-click then it will remove all the trees except the one you selected. It's a lot easier than the bulldozer.

I can't wait for the madders to create a UK theme fore buildings, and a 2nd mixed use with only one residential floor rather than apartment blocks with shops.

It should be noted that if you want to make accurate british railway lines first build a really good railway, then delete 80% of it and build over that with housing/comercial etc, so that you only have one or two connections and everywhere else is poorly serviced. For added authenticity run the track about a mile on from the last station and then leave an overgrown cutting or embankment showing where it used to go.

I'm enjoying your city history 😉👍

rowhouses are really common in america, especially in the northeast and urban midwest. even cities like pittsburgh have tons of rowhouses

Under water is one of the places you'll see high voltage lines not on pylons. A short section of high voltage DC to cross over to the island maybe?

Great looking city 👌 😁

fun little fact about the garbage incinerary, its actually a copy of a Dutch one! the AEB, located in Amsterdam!

Done my driving lessons in a town just to the north of Newcastle called Cramlington… absolutely full of roundabouts haha!

Love the city! Another creator mentioned that you can control the demand somewhat by increasing or decreasing the taxes for different types of zoning. This might let you build more higher density residential.

On the topic of terraces (row housing), in Australia they are common in that you can find examples of them in most 'larger' towns and cities (it's Australia, there's not many of us alright, a large town is like 50,000 people LOL), but outside Newcastle and the older state capitals you won't find a great number of said examples.

As a brit living in the uk i appreciate the realism

I think another aspect that messes up your vision of rowhouses is that *there are many places where the majority of rowhouses are not single-family dwellings* In Montreal, the vast majority of rowhouses have two, or more commonly three or four apartment, often with a shop on the ground floor. This is common enough that there is a dedicated term for these multi-dwelling buildings: plexes (i.e. b/c they can be duplex, triplex or quadruplex). This would qualify as the lower end of medium density housing to me.

You have the coolest job ever holy

Terraced housing in the Uk can be seen as both low and medium depending on the perspective. Although each house might only be inhabited by one family, you'd think low, but often these houses are built very close to the road, no front gardens, thin houses, (a bit like Amsterdam), a door and a single window, cars lining each side of a single street because there are no garages or dedicated parking meaning only 1 car car fit down it at a time so the area could be seen as medium density, ie, number of families living in an area could be quite high. I often travel through small towns and villages in the North West of England and although they're not, you get the feeling of an old industrial town, streets built in a time before cars were common place so the roads are designed to support such traffic. People lived there then all went to work at whatever the big employer in the area was be in steel, ship building, mining.

I think a lot of the dumbbell interchanges in the UK have been or are slowly being retrofitted into being dogbone ones using barriers to prevent the roundabouts from being a complete circle, although I don't expect the roundabout tool in game is advanced enough to be able represent that.

I like your take on the row houses. they should appeal to families with children, because they have gardens, are close to shopping, transport and work.

In Sweden a row house is considered medium density. They are typically rented. But even when they are owned, the land is still rented. Compare to the typical 2-3 floor apartment complex that also is used in medium density areas, the actual density of a row house is not that much lower. Its almost on par. If you have a say 2½ floor apartment complex (that is very typical of medium density in Sweden) and a 2½ floor row house, there is really not much diffrance in density. I checked a neigthborhood close by that have both villas, apartments and row house in the same block. Villa 1200m2 for a normal family villa Row house 2400m2 for a 11 family rowhouse And 2800 for 20 households of apartments. Land usage (exuding road) if 240m2/person for the villa, 55m2/person for the row house and 47m2/person for the flat. And the villa have 48m2/person internal space, 36m2/person for the row house and 25m2/person for the apartment. The internal to external space is 20%, 66% and 58%. So the row house in terms of usable internal space is actually denser.. Is also worth saying about Sweden and Nordic countries in general. Due to the very low angle of the sun in winter, medium density buildings are often not higher than 2½ to 3 floors. Typically don´t want to go higher than 4 floors because a elevator is mandated for 4 floor buildings. This makes it very uneconomical to build a 4 floor building, so anything higher is typically at least 5 floors typically 6. (ironically i´m writing this while making plans for a 4 floor apartment complex at work)

Nice city love the english country style feel. Only thing i would say is lacking our the english rolling hills. Apart from that it looks great. You may also enjoy recreating the Swindon magic roundabout

Check out Uruguay's capital city: Montevideo. So good! Take inspiration from it. Nice work !

I like how you mostly use the small roads. Also, where is the bloemkoolwijk?

Regarding dogbone interchange... like 1-2 years ago they built one around 51.229634, 4.324492 and initially, as usual in Belgium, it was a true pain in the ass to use as a driver*. Some offramps took the right lane with it, leaving only 1 lane on the "roundabout" itself, but other offramps just kept the 2 lanes. it wasn't clearly indicated in advance, and with its shape and the middle and side parts both being a visual obstacle, you barely had any time to react. At least now the roundabout keeps all its lanes, but if you look at the lanes, it's easy to tell that they don't want you to drive more than 30km/h, while the slowest road attached to it is 70km/h. Your really needed a manual to this specific roundabout in its initial state, which seems to me something so typical for Belgian roads, and something that shouldn't be the case. *(imo it still is, but not as much as initially) TLDR: as a driver I personally have a (admittedly biased) dislike of dogbone roundabouts and would rather have a dumbbell interchange like you've done here, or 1 big roundabout.

Goed bezig ga zo door. ps had niet gedacht dat we in het zelfde land wonen.

By the way, this city looks incredible! Beautiful and realistic!

Three types of parks in UK. Recreational flat parks that have one or multiple football pitchs and or rugby pitches, occasionally people use these in the weekends, usually these have a childrens play park attached to the side. Smaller parks which have trees and undergrowth, no real upkeep needed frequently visited by drunk kids at night and for some reason or other the victorians couldnt build a house on. Finally small concrete playparks frequented by parents and young kids in the day and again drunk teenagers at night. Interesting we dont have many dog parks, dog walkers walk there dogs everywhere and leave their black poo bags in the hedges because someone said they were biodegradable and its obviously too difficult or requires to much thought to take the bag home or put it in a bin.

I'm fond of the old, Roman name for Britain, Albion, as the main city name.

this is amazing, and looking at the map size, Eindhoven could be designed nicely.

You are great!

Ziet er goed uit hoor :)

I feel like more flexible zoning could have worked if they kept the buildings the same size but then fill ledany gaps with procedurally generated landscaping/gardens/plazas/concrete etc.

Très sympa 👍

Can you do an overview of the city so far at the start/end of the next video? I feel like I'm not sure about the full city layout anymore

Every day i look if there is a new episode 😅

Would be nice to have distric rules the same way we had hight restrictions in the old game. "medium dencity, single famly home only"

What map is this in game? Looks unreal. Can’t wait for the game to drop

What a great build! I'm confused about the scale of the map. Is the map that much larger compared to C:S1? Are the streets smaller compared to the buildings?

Looking at the row home models in game, they look like larger, multifamily walk-ups than single family terraced homes. I probably saw someone click on one of them at some point but don't remember, do they have multiple households? It might be possible that the specific type of UK terraces you were going for could be released under a UK theme as their own low-density zoning tool somewhere down the line?

It's so relaxing watching these time lapses. Is left hand traffic not available yet in Cities 2?

I was hoping for a new video release today.

random question... anyone know if we can build seawalls/quays in CS2? promenades along rivers etc.? I haven't seen anything so far that would indicate that we can :/