New Modernist Central Square - Cities: Skylines - Altengrad 75

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Building the largest plaza in the city with commercial, office and residential new modernist architecture, replacing the old city blocks. Heavily detailing the final surface and making everything functional.
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Altengrad is a time-progression Cities: Skylines series where I build a Central European city, located until 1989 in the Eastern Bloc, taking inspiration from Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary. The series starts around the year 1920 and slowly advances forward in time, which means the city will naturally evolve all the way to modern times. The city is not a recreation of any one real-life city or country, but it takes inspiration from them.
PC specs are in the channel's About page. No, the game doesn't run like this in real time. Cinematics are recorded slow and made faster in editing.
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Pictures used:
(1) FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula - Németország, Berlin 1970
(2) FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula - Németország, Berlin 1970
(3) FORTEPAN / Lencse Zoltán - Németország, Berlin 1971
(4) FORTEPAN / Kristek Pál - Németország, Drezda 1969
(5) FORTEPAN / Gwen Jones - Németország, Drezda 1970
(6) Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, Rynek Katowice, 1989
(7) FORTEPAN / Gergely János - Csehország, Prága 1965
(8) FORTEPAN / Jakab Antal - Csehország, Prága 1972
(9) FORTEPAN / Fortepan - Magyarország, Veszprém 1970
(10) FORTEPAN / Bojár Sándor - Magyarország, Veszprém 1974
Information about sources:
My primary sources are in Czech and Slovak, because I understand it and I can easily borrow books, search theses, articles or old TV programmes. This gives me information about Czechoslovakia. After learning or confirming something, I search whether or not it's applicable to also East Germany, Poland and Hungary through online articles or videos, but also sometimes English books that I can see through library access. Although some sources pop up from those other countries first. I don't research the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries, since that is not where the series is from. I also don't focus on political theory but rather the reality.
Major sources:
Books:
(I) "Šedesátá léta v architektuře očima pamětníků" (Sixties in Architecture through the eyes of witnesses)
(II) "Když se utopie stane skutečností" (When utopia becomes the reality)
TV:
(III) Archive of the Czech/Slovak/Czechoslovak TV and cinema news (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(IV) Various clips of Alexanderplatz (www.ardmediath...)
military parades (found on RU-vid) and others
(V) Recent Czech TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(VI) Museum visits, historical exhibitions or lectures
(VII) Looking at various historical photos, for example from pastvu.com, fortepan.hu, old maps
(VIII) Various online articles about the squares
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@alertaalerta3675 Год назад

I love your Cities:skylines series (especially Altengrad), Not only are they entertaining, but they're also super informative

@PremDaiii Год назад

Man, I can't wait for the 2000s-2020s fase of adding some needed greenery in public places! (painfully) amazing episode as usual, one of my favourite series on RU-vid!

@maxheerschop Год назад

Around or before that time the plazas will most likely be built full right ... Just look what has happened to most of them

@randoguy7488 Год назад

and bike lanes and pedestrian-only zones. I wonder if he'll take light and blue light LED pollution into account, as it's been a more and more discussed topic, especially by Hynek Mědrický, recommending the use of PC-Amber LED lamps, as well as reducing their light output

@xcalum_mcnal21x46 Год назад

Fr and new dockland districts whit gentrification ❤

@MeTrehugger Год назад

Also maybe some highway demolition and historic districts rebuilding

@hanysslunzok1626 Год назад

Have you guys ever been to eastern Europe? Its 2023 and green cities trend is only starting.

@petjuh1985 Год назад

The weekend can’t start better then with a new Altengrad video! Thx

@petjuh1985 Год назад

Oké and wauw If was having dinner at the Praguer street in Dresden last week 😍

@redoctober1991 Год назад

Small thing, but those trees on the hillside surrounding the old town would surely be much bigger by now? It's been decades since they were planted.

@danonck Год назад

The realism in this series is out of this world, thank you Akruas for a yet another wonderful episode. I hope you'll continue with this series until it's no longer possible due to the game's limitsrions. I'd love to see your take on the 21st century in Altengrad. If I may have a suggestion, since this is the new city center, perhaps it would make sense to up the density of the surrounding area so that the city doesn't end abruptly? What I mean is that part behind the train tracks. Since it's an industrial area some basic prefab housing estates would fit in like a glove!

@valentinsn-ostalgiemodellbahn Год назад

Such a wonderful cross-over between Dresden (Prager Straße) and Berlin - those superstructures and also the red zick-zack pavement couldn't be better. The fountains in Dresden are called "Pusteblumen" (dandelion) , because the water is sprayed in the form of a ripe dandelion flower, which once pick up and blows it away). The huge street lamps are indeed from Halle (GDR). Thanks a lot for this amazing episode!

@grizzly8810 Год назад

Absolutely fantastic update as always with great historical background as well as beautiful modelling . The Plaza also reminds me of "Stadtpromenade" area in Cottbus, before it was destroyed in 2006. "Kosmos" ice bar would fit well around some edge of this.

@valentinsn-ostalgiemodellbahn Год назад

Absolutly!

@al.nenninger Год назад

This is absolutely amazing! Everything about it from the buildings, their composition to the stone patterns and the small details is just so well done. This is modernism at its finest continuing the tradition of great plazas and city centers into the present day.

@alengrm7488 Год назад

Another good example of a modernist square would be Trg Republike in Ljubljana. It was designed in front of a newly built parliament with the Cankar Centre(the largest Slovene convention and culture center) as well as a department store and two massive towers surrounding it, therefore it served as both a political and a cultural centre

@thomaspatts4160 Год назад

Wake up babe, Altengrad is being rebuilt! Thank you as always

@Tester7745k Год назад

Great video as always, you could include some newer trams, buses (bendy buses too) and new trains to the city, and replace those railbuses with EMUs like the EN57 or something similar

@micbln8967 Год назад

I just came to watch some citybuilding and got a whole history lesson. Really appreciate this, great work. Oh, and great citybuilding too.

@dimasyudha1493 Год назад

I really love those construction areas, really nice detail

@RoefLaser Год назад

No es solo que se vea maravilloso, es todo el contexto e investigación detrás!… Construir así tiene sentido y no aburre!…

@simonzprahy9270 Год назад

Altengrad definitely needs a TV tower, just like the tower on Alexanderplatz or like the Žižkov TV Tower.

@serebii666 Год назад

That will likely happen in a later episode. IIRC Bratialava's is from 1975, and Pecs' is from 1973, though some cities were a bit more avantgarde, the Dresden TV tower and the Alexanderplatz ones were already finished in the late 1960s and Brno's Hády was already done in 1964. Though if Akruas continues basing Altengrad's historical development mostly off Prague, then the TV tower episode will probably come during the 1980s decade (Žižkov TV Tower was built between 1985-1992).

@Housestationlive Год назад

there is nothing left from the original game in this gameplay session 😂

@bruh666 Год назад

Another absolute masterpiece, can't wait for the next one

@civishamburgum1234 Год назад

Beautifull patterns

@ndv135 Год назад

Been catching up on this series, and this was one of the ones I've been looking forward to. I was not at all disappointed. Really cool build, and unlike anything that I've seen anyone else doing in Cities: Skylines.

@TehWever Год назад

extremely informative, not even sure If I'm not watching the series more for the knowledge than changing city right now :)

@gregory-of-tours Год назад

This series is so great! Besides the miniature-level build quality, the background is the real draw for me. I took a lot of urban geography in uni, including some historical geography of North American cities, but since I couldn't find a job in any way related to it I've sort of forgotten about how interesting I find the history and structure of urban environments. We got basically nothing on the history of cities outside North America and Western Europe so it's particularly interesting to see how similar concepts were used in a different socioeconomic system.

@angelgames9351 Год назад

This city is missing an airport, it should’ve been done more in the 40s but right now is a good time to make it, with a latter expansion in the 2010s or so

@moenchii Год назад

Erfurt mentioned! \^.^/ And yes those swirls in the planters in the Erfurt garden expo are still there.

@Okees.production Год назад

You are just ruined the beauty old city. I’m un subscribing you. 😢

@thejearbear___ Год назад

BABE WAKE UP AKRAUS POSTED

@t0mcat683 Год назад

im fom akbany thanks for showing my city

@serebii666 Год назад

Amazing detailing! I can practically feel the Urban Heat Island effect radiating off the square! The fountain gives off vibes like the one in Náměstí svobody in Bratislava. It would be cool to adapt it in a future (Contemporary Altengrad) episode as an urban public waterpark with jets for kids to play in, like they did with that fountain in Bratislava (or like the Granary Square Fountain in London)

@heisennoob6446 Год назад

Seeing my own city (Dresden) is pretty cool :D. Its definitely a great showcase of almost all eras in central european architecture with every quarter representing an era. Johannstadt might be annother great example of postwar housing redevelopment in old quarters that were almost completely destroyed.

@jubmelahtes Год назад

This actually looks really great

@Dietsch_ Год назад

Are you making the metro any time in the near future?

@tola4303 Год назад

maybe a car factory somewhere?

@vitalikuk3869 Год назад

Hello from Ukraine 👍👍👍

@Housestationlive Год назад

crazy. insane. sick. not normal.

@sophie.thomas Год назад

always love yout video's

@denysshevchuk5478 Год назад

В Киеве красивая главная площадь

@Meadowy Год назад

Probably my favourite cs series on youtube!

@Hugo-hf4mp Год назад

damn, this reminds me all so much of Hoyerswerda, the second socialist planned city Cheers, great video

@JosipBrozTito. Год назад

Hey can you make the trolleybus system because is all over in central europe you can get in sunset harbor if you din have the trolleybus

@Housestationlive Год назад

how much to build my city? 😂

@epilog99 Год назад

great build, Now I really want to see a 1st person tram ride through that komplex!🔥

@zweimeterzwerg 6 месяцев назад

It's so weird seeing a house I actually lived in in your video. At 1:00 , I lived in the left of the 3 prefabs by the red mall on the left "Alexa" (used to be parking) on the opposing site of Alexanderstraße. 9th floor from 1993 to 1998. Back in the 90s, you could see flowers and trees on Alexander Platz and they even had a volleyball- and a basketballcourt. Now it's just more concrete and more more more malls.

@romanrat5613 Год назад

great video

@sebaxiv Год назад

Le travail artistique est impressionnant, il met parfaitement en valeur les explications historiques détaillées. Passionnant 🤓

@novaklan2707 Год назад

It would be cool if you built a nuclear power plant for the rising energy demands in the Region

@fagocitotico Год назад

very good

@evinton Год назад

Love the videos, esp the history lessons ;) I would suggest you take a look at Belgrade when you do research/comparisons, it also had the same problems/progression as the other big Central/Eastern European cities of the time, it was also socialist but with its own flavor, and it has many interesting urbanization and infrastructure projects from this era. I think New Belgrade will interest you the most because it's the most striking example of car-centric infrastructure and concrete panel buildings that repeat forever, it really goes in the exact opposite direction of the little Nova Huta neighbourhood you built. Some other locations that come to mind are the Belgrade Fair complex, the Poštanska Štedionica building complex, the Avala Tower, the Mostar interchange that cuts the city in half, the airport whenever you get around to it, and many others I'm forgetting. As for "squarification" and the butchering of old infrastructure that you discuss in this episode, there is Terazije in downtown Belgrade, where the old continental Hotel Moskva faces a wall of Socialist era buildings, the trees on the boulevard ripped apart to fit more lanes. Republic Square as well, the main square of the city, has the 19th century National Museum and National Theatre share space with the brutalist Belgrade Cultural Centre. This is a common occurrence in Belgrade as the lack of a strict building code and the desire to quickly rebuild the rapidly-expanding capital means that walking down a regular street in downtown Belgrade is an eclectic mix between early 20th, socialist and modern architecture. I wish I could recommend you a book but I struggle to find any in .pdf and/or in English, but I really think it's worth the search if you find the time and the will to do so. I'm certain 15 minutes on Google Maps 3D view will inspire you. Thanks so much for the videos!

@philsspace69 Год назад

Huge respect for the well thought through and planning that all of your builds are based on. And of course the historical context. No hipshot-builds! 😀👌

@jal123me Год назад

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY NEW VIDEO! Thank you! I always love how you make your videos entertaining, educational, and in-depth about what you're doing regarding architecture, city planning, history and the like. Thank you for providing unique content. Really is a breath of fresh air.

@TheInfiniteAmo Год назад

The Berlin Alexanderplatz is so interesting. It features so prominently in mid-20th century Cold War culture that it's surprising that the place itself is really just an empty plaza.

@57thorns Год назад

17:23 My hometown Linköping looks a bit the same as Veszprém. there is a city center with 1950s density buildings (they moved the interesting older houses to a museum area just outside town, which is now very much in the city). Then there are some areas with low density residentials surrounding it before the concrete ghetto suburbs from the 1960s. More recently more detached and semi detached areas have been added further from the city center. Linköping used to be a military city with a large garison, and their old training fields are now a large nature reserve, creating a banan shaped city. Two air fields (one military, one mostly civilian) add to the confusion.

@ElyaneBigeard Год назад

it would be cool to put for the years 1990-2000 or 2010-2020 metro, bus, tram, elevator but also fast food, casino, prison, hotel, toll and also oil, forestry, cinema full of leisure stuff but also industry and beautiful roundabouts and park with lots of games for children and also roads with cycle paths

@albololoda1524 Год назад

akruas, when can you release Altengrad's first person ride video again? , I want to see the Altengrad first person ride video of 70s /Akruas, when can you release the first person ride video of Altengrad 70s? I want to see My English is not good, this is what I translated with google😅

@stinkulusmemes7854 Год назад

you're probably the most incredible skylines creator out there.. keep up the good work 😄😄

@toprob20 Год назад

Your "intro's" are so interesting I always end up rewinding a bunch because your gameplay is so cool it's distracting :|

@CakeboyRiP Год назад

You have some amazing skills. You know how to tell your story and include factual history. Much appriciated

@ΚωνσταντίνοςΚυριάκου-λ1υ Год назад

This plaza has completely changed my perspective about modernism architecture. I can see now what the goal was.

@cy80rg Год назад

Very nice work just like every time. But I have one thaught about the new square. It is totally dominated by the stalinist hotel (?) you build earlier after the war. Given it is kind of a headquarter or culture club to me it is implausible, to block it with the house of the teacher. I would relinquish the house of the teacher or put it elsewhere just to widen the area and make the hotel the angular point of the whole area. IMHO that would fit better to the concept oft East Berlin oder Dresden. Anyway: Please go on, love your series.

@wtripley Год назад

The French modernist blocks have a “Je ne sais quoi” Hello from Tennessee, United States 👋

@UtopiaBasti Год назад

I would love to see my "Fischerinsel" from Berlin in Altengrad. 😍

@ApexPredator-ph3tr Год назад

Is this remastered version or standard?? Why doesn't my game looks like this 😢😢

@flameoguy Год назад

I love how Altengrad has shaped up! The Stalinist skyscraper set right between the old town and modern square makes an excellent centerpiece.

@thedisintegrador Год назад

omg i love this series so much it's indescribable. It's like a professional lecture on urbanism. I love it so!

@konkon3955 Год назад

Love this series! Im really happy that the history of the former eastern block cities are presented here. Lot of times they are not shown at all.

@aarongodinez9022 Год назад

Gotta love how we built better cities over 100 years ago than we do now...

@arthurborges76 Год назад

Please update your savegame in workshop.

@belkassem06 Год назад

Always good videos. Thanks

@blossom9939 Год назад

I would love to see before and after of the new area. When it's was still old and traditional in comparison to the newly built district.

@bubblegumrick7870 Год назад

awesome!!!

@mmh9178 Год назад

hate/love in these times, great episode however❤

@terraincognitaband7273 Год назад

and again just awesome. Well done.

@tylermatteson7289 Год назад

I expect that in the lore of Altengrad , it will become a market economy at some point in the future, like many of the Eastern European countries it is inspired by. This "Altenpltaz" square would make for a charming Christmas market.

@serebii666 Год назад

Altengrad is inspired by Central European countries, not Eastern European ones. The primary inspirations are the industrial cities of Czechoslovakia (chiefly Prague) and East Germany and to a lesser extent, Hungary and Poland.

@jakubcesarzdakos5442 Год назад

8:00 for sure it's already not. The former big and just-post-communist-poor-and-sad parking lot was replaced with a new big modern and ugly-for-itself-and-for-not-fitting-into-anything-nearby museum of modern art

@jakubcesarzdakos5442 Год назад

The museum is very new so it might not be on some maps yet

@johnnyenglish3867 Год назад

ANOTHER BANGER OF A VIDEO

@DABLOODMAFIA Год назад

10:17 💀 Just 💀

@MelbourneMaster Год назад

Do you use fake spawn points for people inside PO buildings? Ive begun placing houses and shops inside larger PO buildings otherwise I cant mimic pedestrian traffic in and out of PO areas. I wonder if there is an easier way to do it.

@Akruas Год назад

I'm doing that here at 30:55

@richardfoldes7793 Год назад

Will you do some kind of high-rise skyline/downtown. I know that they are quite unsual in central european cities. I know Bratislava and Warsaw have one... 🌃 Video is great as always 🤩

@Akruas Год назад

Maybe in some future decades.

@doublea06 Год назад

12:15 ITY all, the metro is coming in the early 1980s.

@doublea06 Год назад

(ITY stands for 'I told you')

@nt4908 Год назад

communism is based

@jaspersonneveld4072 Год назад

I get that the highway past the station is inspired by Prague, but this is just stupidity. There really needs to be a connection between that huge pedestrian area and the station building.

@al.nenninger Год назад

The entrance is where the big “Altengrad“ sign in- so under the Highway.

@Mr_Karre Год назад

It looks so Spanish

@felixcorroyer7511 Год назад

Wow Amazing !

@nachodamiani5457 Год назад

You are an artist man

@DoctorFaktor Год назад

Awesome, as always. I noticed though that one of the buses in front of the train station is parked in the opposite direction.

@Akruas Год назад

Yes, I fixed it.

@ulysse2145 Год назад

Thank you

@williambouchardon3706 Год назад

Having been to Most to see the socialist architecture firsthand, I think this new central square definitely has some similar vibes. I'm a bit sad to see all this district gone, but this series really is an excellent depiction of what happened to Central European cities during the socialist era. Congrats for your work !

@michahogelo Год назад

best

@3shal86 Год назад

A suggestion for your problem with the pedestrian paths/lanes, if you don't already use it, try lane controller.

@DjapeKostic Год назад

I love this series. I just wish you mentioned Yugoslav architecture occassionally. I know you said that it's not your point of focus, but a guy can dream.

@Atomicdelta765 Год назад

Hi, in the very beginning of the video (0:03) I absolutely love the old European buildings. Did you download something special like a theme or did you just select from the workshop the ones you like? When yes who is the creator of those magnificent "things"?

@Akruas Год назад

I picked so many different individual buildings, if you simply search "european" you will find most of them. The authors are for example Titan, Feindbold, Jens, and many others.

@Atomicdelta765 Год назад

@@Akruas thanks!

@flare2000x Год назад

I would love to see an episode about the public transport in eastern europe and giving the tram and train network some love in Altengrad. I know you said it won't get a metro but perhaps there could be some upgraded tram infrastructure or some tram-train lines to the further suburbs? And perhaps some bus lines as well. Perhaps that is more an 80s thing?