"Nothing special," says Jack Fletcher, linking to his album of screenshots. The expression of pure, white-hot jealousy on my face would suggest otherwise.
"Nothing special," indeed.
CyberBot's city is built on the Oahu map, available from the Steam Workshop. It's a stunning location, and the resulting city has been nestled into the mountains for an incredible effect.
City builders really help highlight how inefficient non-grid based layouts can be. Luckily, if the city builder in question gives you enough land to overcome that fact, it doesn't really matter. Hence Rodrigo's beautiful design. Here's the full album, and here's the overhead shot:
Sure, it's not the prettiest road system, but according to Max it's "highly efficient". The city is called Empire Bay, and it's inspired by LA and New York, only without the grid system. Instead, it's almost hypnotically beautiful layout of roundabouts and winding roads. See more here.
I love the above shot, with its slowly undulating road winding into the distance. Frosteye didn't provide much (or any) detail explaining his city, but his screenshots paint a portrait of a picturesque place to live.
Yes, Joao has built a castle. Or, more accurately, he's build a city using the Modular Castle mod. It still counts. You can see more of the medieval municipality in this screenshot gallery.
TeaBelliedTitch's city contains a monument to Half-Life; a fine cultural artefact that every city should contain. There's also has an ode to Borderlands, which is less widely celebrated, but still pretty neat I guess. You can find more screenshots through the link.
I'll let Aleksey explain the twin cities of Sheffield and York:
Here's York:
And here's a screenshot gallery.
Kepler314's thing is farming. "I hate the farms in this game so I had to improvise," explains the agricultural architect. The solution is very natural looking hedges containing plots of farmland that stand separate from the main city. You can see more of this effect here, and also below.
I do like a novel intersection, and Masterstatesman's city has a few of them—all pulled from the Steam Workshop. Check out this 23 image gallery for a full tour through the 300,000 strong city.
Here we have MrIceCat's city of Elisa, which once again is not a dull and boring grid-world. Instead, there's a kind of strange, curvy land of half-circles to the south-west of the city. That's pretty cool, although I bet anyone forced to walk through the dense industrial district in the north-east is less taken with the city's layout.
Okay, so it's possible I'm only including Cirurginn's city because it features this Better Call Saul sign mod. Of course, there's also the fact that it's a 230,000 monstrosity of epic scale.
IVIaarten has kept up a diary of his city. According to the latest entry, "Forkton is doing well. There's more tourists arriving every day, people are feeling good, have jobs, and spare money to spend." It all sounds pretty idyllic, although maybe not so much to the residents of notably less wealthy 'Otherside' district.
When I first saw Jack's city, my reaction was "woah! That's a lot of circles!" Then I saw the full overhead service map, and my reaction was "woah! Previously my definition of 'a lot of circles' was clearly flawed, because this, now, is a lot of circles."
"The basic idea was to create largeish roundabouts out of 6-lane one-ways connected via 6-lane 2-ways to create little isolated areas," says Jack, "most of which have a 2-lane one-way running through the middle." If you say so.
Nerdsworth's city—Nerdsville—is built on the impossibly mountainous Kiin's Landing map. As such, it's a bit of a mess. There's roads weaving between isolated islands, and near-inaccessible districts scattered around the land. That's not a criticism. All cities should be a bit of a mess. It's what makes them interesting. For more, have a browse through this giant 50 screenshot album.
