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Building new tram depot, huge central bus depot and continuing building the residential estates. Talking about public transport in Central Europe and a little in the Soviet Union.
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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.
youtube.com/c/Akruas/about
Music: bensound.com/royalty-free-music
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.
Pictures used:
(1) FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula - Németország, Berlin 1970
(2) FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula - Németország, Berlin 1962
(3) FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula - Németország, Berlin 1962
(4) Berlin (Ost) BVB SL 73 (Sw- / LEW-Tw 217 073-4) Wöhlertstrasse am 17. Februar 1974 by Kurt Rasmussen
(5) FORTEPAN / Bauer Sándor - Czech Republik, Prague 1956
(6) Naryn-ZiU-9-009-02 by MBxd1 / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(7) Multiple-unit of ZiU-9 trolleybus in Krasnodar by MBxd1 / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(8) FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula - Magyarország, Budapest I. 1975
(9) FORTEPAN / Urbán Tamás - Magyarország, Budapest V. 1975
Major sources:
Books:
(I) "Autobusy a trolejbusy východního bloku 1945-1990" (Buses and trolleybuses of the eastern bloc 1945-1990)
(II) "DETERMINANTS OF FUNCTIONING OF TROLLEYBUS TRANSPORT IN SELECTED CITIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION"
Articles:
(III) "Tram, trolleybus and bus services in Eastern-European socialist urban planning: Case studies of Magdeburg, Ostrava and Oryol (1950s and 1960s)" Elvira Khairullina and Luis Santos y Ganges
(IV) "Trolejbusom z Trnavy do Jaslovských Bohuníc?
Vízia z 82. roku dvadsiateho storočia" (From Trnava to Jaslovské Bohunice by a trolleybus? Vision from 1982) from NOVINKY Z RADNICE Život a kultúra Trnavy, XXXIII, 6
(V) Various other online articles to get basic dates or numbers
TV:
(VI) Archive of the Czech/Slovak/Czechoslovak TV and cinema news (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(VII) Recent Czech TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(VIII) Museum visits, historical exhibitions or lectures
(IX) Looking at various historical photos, for example from pastvu.com, fortepan.hu, old maps
#citiesskylines #altengrad
Building new tram depot, huge central bus depot and continuing building the residential estates. Talking about public transport in Central Europe and a little in the Soviet Union.
You can directly support the channel by becoming a channel member here:
youtube.com/channel/UCMQ3E2ZfpvnUkpUen7iMwHQ/join
Twitter - twitter.com/AkruasStream
Twitch - twitch.tv/akruas
Instagram - instagram.com/akruasstream
Mod collections: steamcommunity.com/id/akruas/myworkshopfiles/?section=collections&appid=255710
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.
youtube.com/c/Akruas/about
Music: bensound.com/royalty-free-music
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.
Pictures used:
(1) FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula - Németország, Berlin 1970
(2) FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula - Németország, Berlin 1962
(3) FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula - Németország, Berlin 1962
(4) Berlin (Ost) BVB SL 73 (Sw- / LEW-Tw 217 073-4) Wöhlertstrasse am 17. Februar 1974 by Kurt Rasmussen
(5) FORTEPAN / Bauer Sándor - Czech Republik, Prague 1956
(6) Naryn-ZiU-9-009-02 by MBxd1 / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(7) Multiple-unit of ZiU-9 trolleybus in Krasnodar by MBxd1 / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(8) FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula - Magyarország, Budapest I. 1975
(9) FORTEPAN / Urbán Tamás - Magyarország, Budapest V. 1975
Major sources:
Books:
(I) "Autobusy a trolejbusy východního bloku 1945-1990" (Buses and trolleybuses of the eastern bloc 1945-1990)
(II) "DETERMINANTS OF FUNCTIONING OF TROLLEYBUS TRANSPORT IN SELECTED CITIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION"
Articles:
(III) "Tram, trolleybus and bus services in Eastern-European socialist urban planning: Case studies of Magdeburg, Ostrava and Oryol (1950s and 1960s)" Elvira Khairullina and Luis Santos y Ganges
(IV) "Trolejbusom z Trnavy do Jaslovských Bohuníc?
Vízia z 82. roku dvadsiateho storočia" (From Trnava to Jaslovské Bohunice by a trolleybus? Vision from 1982) from NOVINKY Z RADNICE Život a kultúra Trnavy, XXXIII, 6
(V) Various other online articles to get basic dates or numbers
TV:
(VI) Archive of the Czech/Slovak/Czechoslovak TV and cinema news (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(VII) Recent Czech TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(VIII) Museum visits, historical exhibitions or lectures
(IX) Looking at various historical photos, for example from pastvu.com, fortepan.hu, old maps
#citiesskylines #altengrad
