This is the last one of my old journals, so prepare for new infos on New Coast City, soon 

Christmas is gone and my vacation is over, so its time to continue the work on New Coast City and there are already some changes happened this year.

New Coast City gets an Open Air Museum

During construction of the freeway bypass, workers discovered some ruins and basements of an old Middle Age town. This important discovery caused a completely construction stop of the whole area for several month.

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The time schedule of the entire New Coast City Project gets into danger and every day the work didn’t continue, cost several Millions. So the administration decide to start an archaeological excavation immediately.

“This discover has an invaluable cultural worth and we want that all inhabitants of New Coast City have access to this” announced Mayor Auriga.

So a team of international archaeologists and historians started to reconstruct every excavated Middle Age building in a park Area between the freeway bypass and the Central Circle and now after month of hard work, New Coast City’s Open Air Historical Museum open its doors for visitors.

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Cities XL medieval museum

Cities XL medieval plaza

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Next to the new museum there is also some other progress of the New Coast City Project

The first high wealth Apartment and hotel buildings along the New Coast City Bay are finished, and providing an awesome few across the sea for their inhabitants.

Also the work on the Prime Circle and the Island Circle has began, and New Coast City is now close to its final shape.

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Cities XL Island

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New Coast City Masterplan

Masterplan

This my next last of my old city journal I have writen before the end of planet offer:

New Coast City is growing constant but slow. Not because I have no time to playing this game, because it is very complex to build this City. New Coast City, with his more organic look, more precious circles, different terrain levels, sunken roads, high roads, walls, many interchanges, several traffic axis that connects each circle, large park areas is way more sophisticated as my beta town. I’m very lucky if I manage to raise the population by 10.000 people, after hours of playing. Just as little explanation if you guys wondering why New Cost City is still so low on population after this long time 😉

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However, some changes have happened to New Coast City in the last weeks, the important thing was the first area between the three build circle geometrics is finished and connected them. This “Connection Area” is a mostly low and medium density area, with mainly residential and some office buildings. I extended the main traffic axis from all three circles and lay them through this area as main streets. Then  I aligned some residential and office zones along this roads. The building density is very low, so there is much space for parks.

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View across the “Connection Area” , left: Administration Circle, middle: Central Circle, right: Convention Circle.

Top view of this area and a new segment of the sunken freeway that finished recently, and is now connecting the Central Circle with the Administration Circle.

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Cities XL Freeway

Another important thing is that the first magastructure of New Coast City is under construction. It is the  “30 St Mary Axe” ore the “Foster Gherkin” 😉 This building marks the central spot of the new convention centre of New Coast City. A high road directly connecting the convention centre with the central traffic axis.

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Cities XL elevated road

And finally a traffic overlay

Some month ago Major Mudder announced at the German CitiesXL forum (www.citiesxs.de) a competition for the most beautiful office district. I have submitted the Central Circle of New Coast City as Competition entry and won the first price. This is my old journal entry for this event.

“We have been working very hard to get the third construction stage, the Central Circle, nearly finished, before beginning of the voting at last Weekend.”

Said Major Auriga, and the efforts pays off, New Coast City and its first business district has got the most votes and won the first place of this competition.

“I’m very proud that our city won this award in spite of many other very good submissions. I like to thank every one who votes for New Coast City and every other participant of this competition for their good work.”

This was the competition submission for New Coast City:

TRANSLATION

PAGE 1: LOCATION

Save now your own office space in New Coast City, one of the most sophisticated urban planing projects on Planet Tarvos. Benefit from a completely master planed city.

This here presented office quarter is located in the nearly finished third construction stage, the Central Circle. This new sub centre of New Coast City offers a optimal traffic connection because of a planed and partial finished sunken freeway directly to the centre of the circle. In this centre there are located the office towers, in top location directly at the central park. Short commuter traffic is rising the attractiveness of this location additonally.

Also for small and medium- sized business is space available. There are mixed use areas for residential, office and commercial in the outer rings. Because of this, there is also short commuter traffic for this area and this mix of different zones ensure a bustle also after work.

PAGE 2: TRAFFIC CONZEPT

The Central Circle is like every other planed sub centre nearly complete self sustaining. That means that an optimal mix of residential and working was realised in this circle structure, to keep commuter traffic as short as possible.

Because of this the traffic load is, in spite of the 62.000 inhabitants of the Central Circle, very low . So in most parts of this City are one lane roads used. Only the Main traffic axes from the centre to the outer ring and the inner, outer ring road as well as the central high road are designed as multi lane roads.

This keeps capacity for passenger and fright transportation as well as a fast connection to the hightech industry areas.

Welcome to my second restored city journal about New Coast City, more to come.

After the realization of the Administration circle, the first construction stage and the nearly completion of the second construction stage of the New Coast City project, the work at the more sophisticated third stage has begun.

The first parts of this third circle are already finished and 10.000 inhabitants are living and working here. In the centre of this circle, bordered by a huge traffic circle, soon new city service- and leisure buildings will be constructed. This central location, ensure an optimal supply of services to all inhabitants. A Multiplex cinema and a police station are recently finished, and already raising the life quality in New Coast City significant.

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Cities XL office circle

“It’s a beautiful place to life “ means John, one of the first new inhabitants of the third stage “In New Coast City has so much parks and places, when everything is finished I’m sure this will be one of the greenest City on Planet”

He told us that he lives in the first residential ring, direct next to the central office ring. Between this first residential ring and the second one lies an broad park ring with an high road, the central traffic connection of all expressway axis. The first section of this high road is finished and recently opened for traffic.

Between the last expressway ring and the outer expressway that will later bordering the whole city, lies also a park. “green” bridges connect these two expressways. The park it self has a lower ground level than the expressways. Also the work on a new sunken freeway will begin soon.

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Cities XL elevated road

Cities XL level screen

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