Katsnelson and its neighbours

Posted by Yuanls on 16 September 2015 in English.

I’ve been working on the city Katsnelson and its environs for a few months now (Yes, I’m still in Commonia for some reason). Katsnelson was not originally my idea (A person called Subway started in in December but then abandoned it and later I took hold, and made the inner ring and most of the outer parts). All of Monksbury, Sommton, Warroton and Medsham are originals though. I tried to create a sense of Englishness to my places; do you think I can improve on anything specific or in general?
Map: http://opengeofiction.net/#map=10/26.4902/157.7321 Wiki: http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/Katsnelson

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Comment from isleño on 17 September 2015 at 04:42

Looks good. :-) I put this comment about avoiding grids on norfolkadam’s thread but wanted to make sure you saw it, too:

@Yuanls & norfolkadam — Even with a very regular US-style grid, it’s not easy to make it realistic. For example, a grid like Chicago’s is actually full of subtle irregularities that occupy as much as half the total area. In some ways, it’s even harder to get right than a more random pattern.

For highly irregular older cities, a good way to avoid grids is to build things in the order they were built in real life. Many older cities would have developed across a rural area already filled with irregular villages, roads, farms and fields. If you sketch out these irregular patterns first, and then draw the city expanding outwards around them, you’ll end up with patterns that feel much older. Like this for example.

Comment from Yuanls on 19 September 2015 at 20:57

@isleño Thanks, that really helped! I’m inspired!

Comment from isleño on 21 September 2015 at 17:43

Great, I’m glad this was helpful!

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