Best Cities series on the web. Doing it through the decades has made this City look and feel like the most realistic City on youtube

@hodgepodge51

3 ай бұрын

For sure

@xandersboyyy

3 ай бұрын

this decade-by-decade form of build is one of the most incredible things I've seen done in Cities Skylines, so good

@plini-xi3ux

3 ай бұрын

100% agree, it's an incredible series! Best one by far.

Right at the end, this doesn't even look like a game. Print it as a photo and I bet people would think it's a real city.

This series is phenomenal. The history lesson, the urban designing, the manipulation of the game... phenomenal.

That train depot next to the refurbished blocks seems like a perfect space for a horrible gigantic 2000s mall connected to a train station

@petrhajduk9955

3 ай бұрын

Can be called "The Depot"

@cybernakulum

2 ай бұрын

​@@petrhajduk9955That sounds more like the "trendy food and overpriced barbers" place finished in late 2010s, promising a deep post-industrial revitalization, but providing mostly fake brick and gentrification. A 2000s giant mall would be something like Forum Altengradia or Alten City Plaza - trashy English is a must for 00s teenage capitalism.

I went crazy when this came out. I love this series so much.

You singlehandedly made me an architecture and city planning nerd

@AdriActive

3 ай бұрын

He did that to me too🔥

TV Tower!!! Super hyped. This is the best Cities series on KZread, and definitely one of the best series on the history of eastern block urbanism, and on general urbanism, too.

Vilnius mentioned! I was literally pumping my fist when you revealed the TV tower! On another note, I've been actively watching your 1900s altengrad videos and I gotta say - there are so many parallels I see here to how my hometown was developed here and frankly it's so fascinating, i always love tuning in because, while i really dislike those times and what still remains of them today, it's so cool to imagine the dreams architects once had of the cities, how the places we know came to be and what they could have been. I'm ranting now so just wanna say, love your videos and it's always such a festive time to see them on my notifications list

@user-po6lj8rg8w

25 күн бұрын

Real

Can't wait to see how the city develops after the fall of the Soviet Union and the struggles of converting away from centrally organised industry to capitalism

Not only it is the best CS series ever, but also it's one of the most interesting lesson on Eastern European architecture, history and culture, which as a Pole I really appreciate. So much nostalgia coming from watching your episodes. Simply stunning, that view in the end was chef's kiss. One thing I wanted to ask you for some time - would it be possible for the transition of before/after to be longer? Or perhaps from different perspectives too? I'm particularly enjoying this segment of each episode.

@lagritsalammas

3 ай бұрын

I wanted to chime in and ask for exactly the same thing. I always find myself rewinding to rewatch the transitions multiple times, it's just so fascinating to see the contrast between what was before and what's new.

@Akruas

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Every episode a banger, your way of building Altengrad so naturally is just the gold standard for realistic cities

When you mention Žižkov, i was expecting, that you will build TV tower. Only thing, which will surely change in 2000s, is putting babies on that tower :D Also when you are in mid 1980s, maybe you should expand skyline part of the city. Central european cities build some tall skyscrapers in that time. Like City Tower, City Empiria or Panorama Hotel in Prague. In Bratislava it was STV building and 115 tower.

@richardfoldes7793

3 ай бұрын

Also smaller ones like Technopol and Hviezda in Bratislava. They are both around 80 metres

@qzg7857

3 ай бұрын

When it comes to highrises then Warsaw 2000-2020 would be better example.

@dragonlukasmapping805

3 ай бұрын

@@qzg7857 i know, but we have seen that highrise upgrade in 1960s which happened a lot in central europe. Same partially happened in 1980s, and biggest expansion should be probably in 2000s.

@dragonlukasmapping805

3 ай бұрын

@@richardfoldes7793 i thought technopol was from 1960s but i check it out, and yeah its 80s. So yeah another good example.

@richardfoldes7793

3 ай бұрын

@@dragonlukasmapping805 Now we can see that cities are now very individual. Most high-rises in Bratislava were completed in 2010s. I think there should be general expansion through the years in altengrad since its mix of cities.

Wow big changes to the skyline! So great to see Altengrad develop.

As a Vilnius native it's super cool to see the TV Tower in the city, even if the Žižkov one is a better fit haha. Absolutely love the series!

Ohooo this day just got better!

Wow you put a TV tower from my city, what a honour !

the Žižkov TV tower is on the workers and reasorces: soviet republic workshop, I wonder if it could easilly be ported, I know a lot goes from CS to WRSR, but I fear it whould be harder to go in the other direction, it's detail level probs isnt CS standards either and it's a bit late now.

My wish to actually visit Altengrad increases by each episode! Man this is some good stuff, thank you for keeping it up man.

As someone from Lithuania, I was wondering if you will ever use that TV tower from Vilnius in your build 😂 great to see that! Great content!

This Akruas series is always enjoyable to watch.

@heroe2491

3 ай бұрын

It is!

3:29 i stayed in that hotel!

@petjuh1985

3 ай бұрын

In altengrad? 😍

your work is stunning. i really hope cs2 will be on a playable level someday to see you come up with even better projects than altengrad (though it will be difficult to top this)

this series is under rated.

8:11 this "later form of postmodernism" can also be called "deconstructivism" and i think it's real cool!

Love the project so much. The addition of a TV-Tower was definitely a good one.

I absolutely love this series, the amount of research done for these videos are just inspiring! All that's needed is just minor post editing and it would look no different from real life

Vdaka za skvele videa. Velmi rad ich pozeram, su ukludnujuce a naucne. Keep up the good work, Thanks 🙏🏻

@Akruas

3 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

Always looking forward to new episodes of Altengrad. It has been very insightful as an Arch student, looking forward to the 90s!

This is such an underrated series. an A class history lesson while watching some of the best custom building the game has ever seen. Idk how you have the time my friend.

@kyleoneill3420

Ай бұрын

Maybe underrated is the wrong word. Seems like everyone is in agreement it’s one of if not the best series out there 😅

Honestly I love your series I can't wait for new episodes it is so beautiful and relaxing to watch this as, even though this is central Europe, reminds me of the Balkans, mainly major cities Belgrade and Novi Sad have a lot of what happened in Central Europe too so this truly makes me sometimes think I am seeing pictures of Balkan cities Good job and thank you for making this

Lovely cinematic at the start, its just a rest for my eyes. I often stop and just look, because it is so beautyful. Thanks for your time and work

Always fun to see familiar buildings from Bratislava in your builds. The Slovak Radio is probably one of the ugliest but certainly quite characterstic too.

I wish someone made the Ještěd tower for CS1.

@Honza135

3 ай бұрын

Or Ještěd shopping centre. Its honeycombe ground plan was somehing else. What a piece of architecture! I still miss that bulding.

After the WWI videos, this is by far my favourite part of this series. I would really appreciate it if you dived more into complexity and contradiction in architecture history! Even try building a crazy weird postmodern or blob building from scratch, would be really cool to watch in CS1!

*goes out to find out babe* yo thats her lipstick , I barge out to the streets of Altengrad , I i saw a glimpse of a shadowy man and a female scream , I shout at him stop now , and run out to grab my girlfriend , Tune in to the next episode of BABE WAKE UP NEW ALTENGRAD EPISODE

@SokaRome

3 ай бұрын

Yo i know my English isn’t da best >:(

@a_normal_earthbeing1180

3 ай бұрын

its good, i can read it and the grammar is not terrible@@SokaRome

This is definitely the best of the best CS series on YT.

I want to see roaring 90s in Altengrad 😂😂

yooo slovenský rozhlas on top!!!

@tutelshnela6729

3 ай бұрын

now add the national gallery

I will always love this series more than anything ❤️

I wonder if going around and darkening the average saturation of old building colors in the city would better convey the 80s eastern bloc vibes. I don't know if it would even be a feasible thing to do without a long long time doing a repetitive tasks or if you have a lot of buildings that you can't recolor, but if you could it might be a big jump in making the old city believable

i use the vilnius tv tower in every city i build, a shame the riga tv tower doesnt exist on the workshop i find that one even better

Train Depot (31:30) refurbishment could be also done later on. In Vienna (not really the 49-89 central europe era) in place of the Nordbahnhof and now the Nordwestbahnhof (Frachtenbahnhof) new modern developments are appearing, so that would be an interesting mix. Its really interesting seeing on the Nordwestbahnstrasse on one side old buildings, on the opposite brand new modern buildings.

Always worth the wait! Fantastic information here, inspires me to research these things about my city too.

I missed u so much💘 CS1 reigns Supreme!!!

I absolutely love watching you stack together custom buildings!❤

31:44 Magnificent 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Love it Need POV from Car or Tram

got 2 ideas for the series 1) maybe at the end of 80s you could make some cutscene like you did in ww2 episode, would be great to see some protests against the goverment in altengrad 2) how about making names of places/districts in interslavic language? i kinda miss some names that would make altengrad lore deeper

Engrossing video, as always. Would love to see an ice hockey/multi use arena in the city.

Greetings from postmodernistic Olechów, Łódź, PL

lovely work, i want to suggest maybe a military area/ airfield with soviet 80s design specialy in these years with the warsaw pact before the jump in the 90s, it would be cool to see

Hands down, my favourite city.

Thank you for showing a building from The Netherlands

I think this series is perfect

learning history of architecture styles with Akruas

i think it'd would've been cool to make a west altengrad and east altengrad like berlin, it'd be so cool. but nevertheless. i still think this is so cool, i love how akuras went for soviet architecture, makes it so much more interesting

@dragonbornexpress5650

3 ай бұрын

"soviet architecture" Stop. There's this thing called Google; Use it.

The skyline looks amazing

WAKE UP BABE NEW ALTENGRAD EPISODE

This series always inspire me to do stuff in the game Workers and resources.

wish there was a historical progression mode/mod

I absolutely love this.

29:05 In this direction could be an airport thet would be perfect 🇨🇿

I find it strange how you talk about how the only color they could paint their buildings was brown or green but you don't talk about the massive public arts projects in the eastern block countries

entertaining and educational at the same time :)

my fav CS channel

awesome

When seeing the first scene I saw a real city

I learn something new every video

@Akruas

3 ай бұрын

Thank you :)

love it

Damn that looks so god damn good. Do you have a modlist? And what about a safefile? I would love to explore the map. 😁🙏

Is Akruas secretly Slavoj Zizek? I counted more and so on and so on's than expected.

I ask for a list of assets day 1

ATV Tower!! ALTENGRAD TELEVISION

Been following this series since that castle on the hill in ep.1, amazing stuff. What roads are you using as your "blank" roads generally speaking? There were some avaliable last time I played (2 years ago) but the creator seems to have hidden them on the workshop. Are there any you can recommend if I just want blank slates for all sorts of variations of lanes/parking etc. so I can "paint" them all by myself with IMT?

@Akruas

3 ай бұрын

Its custom roads made by the Road Builder mod

you should do series in: "workers & resources: soviet republic"

Oof. I wish all the old buildings had simply been fixed and the car had never happened to cities. But that was not what happened. I guess now we just have to work with it going forwards.

you should do a mini movie like with ww2 for the Altengrad revolution.

I think Altengrad should have a metro system, seeing as most Soviet puppet states had metroes in their capitals. Edit: you should also have looked into yugoslav architecture, it has some very interesting brutalist and post-modernist buildings.

Hello Akruas, I wanted to ask you where are you from and if you re an architect? Thank you for your great videos

For a second I thought this was workers and resources Soviet republic

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11:50 they literally wanted. and started to demolishing Josefov. witch they wanted to rebuild again. just after 80 years when it was rebuild by monarchy

Did you change your microphone recently? In the last few videos your "S"es seem like they are hissing or whistling to me, it's honestly kind of distracting (sorry!). Love that you're not abandoning cities 1 content while other creators have moved on!

akruas could you make a large square with vegetation, fountain and a large statue and elevator, staircase and ramp (for disabled people) and luxury stores on the next videos on Altengrad

Hey Akruas! Maybe try out the game Workers & Resouces: Soviet Republic? You probably know the game's content by the title :)

will you go past the 2020s with the project?

Hey I love your channel. Can you provide me with assets list you use on this map?

How much population have Altengrad at this point?

@HighExplosiveSerenade

3 ай бұрын

Well... the city has 171.450 in-game population right now. I don't know if Akruas is using realistic population or other population modifying mods, but some people say that population in C:S1 is around 25% of the real life population. With this in mind, Altengrad should have a population of around 600.000/700.000 people. But if we judge the physical size of the city, comparing it so similarly sized and developed cities in real life, I would guess we should be talking of around half a million (500.000) population or so.

Best cs player

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Your city is beautiful but the lack of suburban houses makes it unrealistic

@dragonbornexpress5650

3 ай бұрын

He's already discussed this before; Since a lot of those suburbs wouldn't even be seen, there's not really much point in building them.

@vay6901

3 ай бұрын

@@dragonbornexpress5650 "pans over the camera to look at city scape each episode" - yeah theres no reason for them

@dragonbornexpress5650

3 ай бұрын

@@vay6901. His words, not mine; It's his choice on the matter.

@vay6901

3 ай бұрын

@@dragonbornexpress5650 uhm, yes i know? I was just saying my unprofessional opinion about it, also having even a tiny suburb around it would make it noticeably more imposing

This TV Tower, nah no bro.

PR pictures. Thanks for the reminders of how propaganda can be SO deceiving.

i really like hexagonal elements there. but I don't think the hexagons really fits the motifs of the building :( maybe triangles and Sharp angles would fit better the overall brutalist aspect of it

I think your city is cool too, the blocks don't fit together at all, you would never find it like that here :P

Hello everybody. This is YOUR daily dose of Soviet housing policy.

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