插件译名: | 插件原名:New York City Rowhouse Set | 原作者:marcszar | 插件说明:To celebrate SimCity4 Devotion's first anniversary, I've made a NYC-themed rowhouse set for you to include in your downtowns! Now you can recreate the Bronx, Manhattan's Washington Heights, or realistic urban neighborhoods from any other northeastern American city.
A total of ten growable lots are included in this set. Eight of the lots are 1 x 2 rowhouses, including one abandoned rowhouse! Two of the lots are 2 x 2 corner rowhouses with stores on ground level. These rowhouses are fully CAMpatible as their stats have been generated with the X-Tool, but the CAM is not required for them to grow.
Such rowhouses were built throughout New York City and other large northeastern American cities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. You'll notice many small gaps between the rowhouses- these were barely legal air shafts designed by the rowhouse developers so that they could fit as many tenants as possible into a building that used up as much of the lot as possible without drawing the attention of New York's Council of Hygiene and Public Health.
Up until the 1950s, these rowhouses were home to a variety of tenants- blue collar workers, immigrants, the newly-emerging white collar office class, and a myriad of minority populations as well. However, with racial tensions and white flight, deindustrialization, and suburbanization fueled by the new Interstate Highway System, the city lost roughly a million residents from the 1960s to the 1980s before rebounding in the early 1990s. As the upper classes were moving out, blacks from the South and other minorities moved in. Even with the influx of minorities, population density in rowhouse neighborhoods fell sharply and much of New York City's housing stock began deteriorating rapidly.
By the 1980s, riots, looting, arson, and widespread abandonment were responsible for the destruction of many of these tenements, and some parts of the city (Bronx in particular) were filled with vacant, burned-out shells and empty lots reminiscent of WWII ruins in Europe. Many residents were convinced New York City was in a permanent decline, but beginning in the early 1990s, a resurgent economy, new policing tactics, and a new city government led New York City into a renaissance. Many rowhouses have been repaired and rents have soared as the city's rising population demands more and more housing.
See the readme for stats and other details.
| 需要的支持文件:(1) MSZ_MODELS_NYC_Rowhouse_Set.dat - For the building models (included) | 缩略图: | 附件: |
[ 本帖最后由 阿布鱼 于 2008-2-10 20:27 编辑 ] |