Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Building new prefabricated concrete panel blocks of flats housing to complete and older area. Talking about housing shortages and how the governments solved them by focusing on the more personal perspective of a potential new tenant.
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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.
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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.
Major sources:
Books:
(I) "Paneláci 1,2" (Prefabs, parts 1 and 2)
(II) "Když se utopie stane skutečností" (When utopia becomes the reality)
Articles:
(III) "100 let bydlení" (100 years of housing) by Hypoteční banka (Mortgage bank)
(IV) "Páteř státní bytové politiky. O družstevním bydlení v socialistickém Československu" (Backbone of state housing policy. About cooperative housing in socialist Czechoslovakia) by Marta Edith Holečková
(V) "Historie bydlení: Zmapovali jsme, jak se bydlelo za socialismu" (History of housing: we mapped how people lived during socialism) by Eva Sovová
(VI) Various other online articles to confirm the context for Poland, East Germany and Hungary
TV:
(VII) Archive of the Czech/Slovak/Czechoslovak TV and cinema news (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(VIII) Recent Czech TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(IX) Museum visits, historical exhibitions or lectures
(X) Looking at various historical photos, for example from pastvu.com, fortepan.hu, old maps
#citiesskylines #altengrad
Building new prefabricated concrete panel blocks of flats housing to complete and older area. Talking about housing shortages and how the governments solved them by focusing on the more personal perspective of a potential new tenant.
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.
Major sources:
Books:
(I) "Paneláci 1,2" (Prefabs, parts 1 and 2)
(II) "Když se utopie stane skutečností" (When utopia becomes the reality)
Articles:
(III) "100 let bydlení" (100 years of housing) by Hypoteční banka (Mortgage bank)
(IV) "Páteř státní bytové politiky. O družstevním bydlení v socialistickém Československu" (Backbone of state housing policy. About cooperative housing in socialist Czechoslovakia) by Marta Edith Holečková
(V) "Historie bydlení: Zmapovali jsme, jak se bydlelo za socialismu" (History of housing: we mapped how people lived during socialism) by Eva Sovová
(VI) Various other online articles to confirm the context for Poland, East Germany and Hungary
TV:
(VII) Archive of the Czech/Slovak/Czechoslovak TV and cinema news (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(VIII) Recent Czech TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(IX) Museum visits, historical exhibitions or lectures
(X) Looking at various historical photos, for example from pastvu.com, fortepan.hu, old maps
#citiesskylines #altengrad
