that shot at 36.00 was amazing with the old centre in the back ground. this city has grown so beautifully.

I like your series, but I want to note that there are not enough small playgrounds in the yards of panel neighborhoods

12:00 Petržalka just got approved a new district center around the new tram line which will have a plenty of high rises and shops. So it will finally be somewhat complete in the 2030s

by far my favourite series on youtube

Hands down, best CS series.

There's similar types of situations in west German cities as well. Here in Cologne we have Chorweiler, but for that estate (which was supposed to house 100k people I think) two transit connections, S-Bahn and Stadtbahn, were built. It's still getting expanded today step by step and the transit is not a problem thanks to both good connections, but it's sadly not really the richest district...

Absolutely beautiful addition to the legendary series of Altengrad. The worst thing about it is that it always ends, no matter how long the epiaodes get! Looking forward to the further expansion and some more highway action. Also, I sort of masochistically want to see further demolition of well established parts of the city, as I know you'll pull it off nicely! By the way, some areas might already deserve a little bit of tree growth, no? 😉

another wonderful video :) im excited to see the finished massive housing project. i love the view of the city at 36:22 . keep it up man :D !

Google Earth has gotten so good I wasn't sure if some of those views full of 3D buildings were from CS or real life

This is really the best city project i've ever seen on cities skylines, Love it !

Ursynów before metro was almost 100% reliant on buses, as the first parts of Warsaw metro were opened in the 1995 (building started in 1983). The history of it begins in the 60's, when the decision of its building was made, and first blocks were already standing in 1976 - that shows how decision processes were horrendously long and inpractical. Same problems occured with transportation. There is an iconic TV series 'Alternatywy 4' which depicts the reality of living in Ursynów at the very beggining (it's a comedy but as almost every comedy from back then - it's almost as in the real life). Famous quote from it says: 'I've been waiting for a bus for 40 minutes now so it should be here soon'. Buses were led on very long lines which stretched not only through Ursynów but through the whole Warsaw (it was much smaller back then obviously, still pretty long). There were oficially 4 parts of Ursynów: Ursynów Północny/Południowy (Northern/Southern Ursynów) and Natolin Północny/Południowy (Nrthrn/Sthrn Natolin) and each one had its own bus lines. They were independent from each other, which made transport more efficient as there was no need to circle around the new district but they took you straight north, to the city centre. Interestingly, on some avenues such as Marszałkowska and Aleja Niepodległości, even though some bus lines gone through the same path, they had different stops (eg. one line stopped on one stop, second on another, whilst still on the same street). That way lines serviced different parts of the district which made it more convenient - there were tens of thousands of residents in Ursynów back then so if there was one line which stopped at each stop it would be horrible. But even if it sound good-ish, the reality was pretty harsh. Blocks were erected chaotically, like there were blocks, then a huge field, blocks again, field etc. Streets were named unintuitively and ambiguos so bus drivers didn't know how to drive there at first. Over time they learned their routes just by directions (there I turn left, then straight for while, right, left and here I am!). It was quite a mess (it's Poland after all...). As 'Alternatywy 4' shown, buses were poorly scheduled and used for transportation not only for humans, but for furniture, fridges etc. as cars were not popular and hard to get back then. Ursynów nowadays is pretty interesting place to see. There is SGGW (Warsaw University of Life Sciences) with adorable old campus, a metro line, Wilanów with the old Jan III Sobieski residence nearby, lot of new developements, cafes, bars, night clubs and so on. Still it heavily relies on buses, but they are now emptier and have more local character, bringing people to metro lines and distributing them in the district. The history of it shows how such a big district was managed without a metro or even trams. (I wrote this monstrosity after I read a history article on Ursynów from Warsaw's Public Transport magazine from September 2019. I'll link it but unfortunately it's only in Polish: www.wtp.waw.pl/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/09/iZTM-09-19.pdf )

I love your series because you provide such interesting backgrounds that become even more vivid through your projects! On the subject of U-Bahn vs. S-Bahn that you mentioned: I'm sure you know the U-5 line in Berlin. This is the perfect hybrid, as it runs to a certain extent underground (near Alexanderplatz) and in the direction of the prefabricated housing areas, of which it connects several of them, completely above ground. Would also fit well!

I love this series' focus on urban history. I'd like to suggest maybe adding more trees to these estates down the line as "time" passes by to show it maturing, also panel housing with trees look very nice after the trees are big enough to provide shade as opposed to the grassy wasteland

Wake up babe new akruas video. But for real I cannot wait to see what the city will look like by the 90s.

aah, i hoped you'll include Poznań in the examples, since northern districts (such as Osiedle Sobieskiego, Osiedle Chrobrego or Osiedle Batorego) are also great example of such expansions also, often referred to as Poznan's Bedroom, with central tram line called PST (Poznan Fast Tram or Pre-metro line). It's quite bizzare story, because the districts were built in the 70's and 80's and the tram line construction also began in the 70's but due to financial problems and constant building companies shuffle it was finished only in 1997 and only in a fraction. Great majority of that line - which supposed to cut entire city on the north-south axis wasn't built, despite initial projects. For almost 20 years people have to move with busses. It's unimaginable today, because PST daily ridership is about 150k. Anyway, i love your works. I love how you analyze and present urbanistic ideas hid behind those big slab communist districts. I've lived in one for half of my life and i have to say i'm really fond of it.

You should add more water features. One example was a highway that was built over a stream. They then removed the highway. Turned it into a pedestrian walkway with the original stream. It had trees and plants at different hights. Vines etc... One place you can do this would be the railway. You should also look at the square you built and the pathways as the people walk into the planters

The explanation of connectivity via rail travel, with amenities (especially commercial) situated at transport hubs in the centre of residential blocks, as demonstrated around 10:00, is exactly how Hong Kong is built. I would love to see Akruas build an East Asian-style city!

yes! a new episode of Altengrad is always like little christmas for me I love how in the newer episodes you always showcase some real-life examples and really seem to delve deep into 2nd half of 20th century urbanism. Thanks to you I started to appreciate those huge parts of my city (Prague) which I previously despised (Jižní město for example) I could listen to you talking about modern urbanism for hours

you're truly the best CS builder on youtube, I'm always in awe of the knowledge I gain from your Altengrad episodes, even as a fellow Eastern European! Your attention to detail is incredible, those places look like the places I lived in, and one of them, a few episodes back, the Zieleniak building you placed near the old town -- I literally used to live like 500m away from the actual building. Great series, always look forward to new episodes!

Love this series bro!

As you don't want build metro, you should check polish fastest tram - Poznań's fast tram (Poznański szybki tramwaj). A special route and most important for people to travel from north of the city to the center

Awesome! I love this series so much! Love how Altengrad has evolved over the decades! Its so beautiful! Hope to see it reach present days someday! :)

How can you make this work all so nicely it is so incredible !!

Damn, I’m really looking forward to the public transport overview!

6:18 damn, I resided there when I visited Prague. The station is called Roztyly :>

Great video as always! Love to see some urban railways.

34:35 Well, we're in the future, look at this flying cars in the background :D

I really like your philosophy that you bring to these which is trying to create something that feels realistic but also pleasantly detailed. A few ideas: The area around the rail line leading up to the new district itself is rather barren when i'm not sure it would make a ton of sense in real life. Maybe some smaller suburbs would fit there with a small train station to help connect them all up?

The best cities skylines project I've seen, makes me wanna try creating something ASAP

Let’s go more sunken stuff I was in Prague yesterday and you nailed it

Easily the best series on yt. For sure CS. The historic background, the knowledge, the skill in game and the sheer volume of transforming excisting assets amazes me. You are an inspiration of me to go look up the old Eastern block Sielungs and panel neighbourhoods. Greeting from Belgium, thnx

As always, great job!

Awesome as always! Very nice work!

I recently stumbled upon your channel and was surprised at how detailed your cities are. As a resident of Russia, I can say that you very accurately conveyed the entourage of communist buildings. Please look at the intersection of Krasnoyarsky Rabochiy Street and Michurin Street in the city of Krasnoyarsk. They are at different levels and one passes over the other with the help of a bridge, which creates an interesting effect. I would like to see something similar in Altengrad. Also during the communist era, propaganda inscriptions on the roofs of buildings were widespread. Not necessarily political (for example, in my hometown there are still buildings with inscriptions "matches are not a toy for children", "carelessness is the cause of the fire") Hello from Russia!

i'm in owe of Your analitics sir. Every episode is teaching more and more.

I was in Petrzalka this month! Surreal as someone who lives in an old town outside Slovakia, but the horse race was nice. And yes, it's all connected by busses and one train station :/ And I saw the construction site of the tramway which looks very highspeed in its layout

smol frankfurt 🥺👉👈

Wonderfu new video, I really like te newly built borough of the city. Maybe you could add a statue or someflag poles to "art up" the sunken commercial spot?

My friend lives in South city and yeah, like you said... Things are improving but very slowly and to reach the end of the metro line it takes like 5 minutes by bus, so not ideal. However thanks for another vid. love this series ❤

Nice build.

i lovee this series

Always surprised when a new video is released

Love this series keep it comin!

Super travail 👍

great series

With what you were saying about the scaling, I always just imagine that Cities Skylines cities are representative of a city 10x larger in population. I just pretend there’s another 0 in the population!

Briliant as always :)

And then you have the West German cities, where they build mass housing estates around the same time, but completely forgot about the rail transit... Hamburg or Kiel for example plan metro and tram lines to their most populous quarters now 50 years later.

Hello, I really enjoy this series. Would you make some kind of "fillers" or "light" episodes between decades where you change vehicles, remove construction decals and make tree grows, not necessary with any constructions, just the transition between Altengrad in a decade and another ?

Please, keep them coming! ❤

Pls let the small town at 35:10 be a part of the City and don‘t demolish it.😢🥺 It’s Looks so nice.

Top video, top series 👌

Are there going to be any more POV Tram/Bus/Train/Drive videos planned anytime soon? I always like getting to see projects like this from the point of view people would see it in their real lives.

I know the idea of the series is to be build it closely realistic, but is there any chance for you to build in your city a district, that would perfectly follow the rules of "city in the sky"? Like a living district somewhere close to the city centre, which would be perfectly build with all the sky paths for people and to have many levels? Since it's just being inspired by the real-life architecture style, and being extremely 1 to 1 copy, it would be really nice to see how you personally would implement all the ideas of the "soviet" socialist-modernistic style.

very intresting

Awesome

Could you switch the trains for the polish EN57? They are really popular, there were 1500 of them manufactured and most of them still operate today.

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S-Bahn = Stadt-Bahn = literally City Train

This is soooo great series!

nice

8:41 N O O D L E S H A P E D

Very similar to Russia. Your cities are very cool. Good luck with your content :)

will the expantions from the 60s also recieve some projects or will they stay like they are rn?

A question I have about this cities is why they decided to build some buildings so far apart from each other

What are the assets you use for the sunken plaza shops at 10:41? cant seem to find them on the workshop

Hey, how about playing Olympic games in Altengrad?

The district in Halle was actually planned and bulit without the tram. The public transport was bnased on buses toi reach the station and it was suposed to be that way. Maybe its also interessting that it wasnt planned as a part of Halle, but as an own city, what it was until 1990.

Halle-Neustadt!!

Great, i just realised that im having hard times understanding if its google maps or cities skylines :(

Bro i love you ❤️

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Do you make the trees grow through time ?

🤩🤩🤩✴✴ (UK and US, etc. style.)

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please create roads pack of roads what do you have

for the next video of Altegrad could you put stores like Versace, Gucci, Louis Vuitton etc and also mac Donald's, burger King, Wendy's and other fast food restaurants or normal restaurants

Some of the walls close to the railway are craving for graffities 🫢