Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Building a panel prefabrication plant. Talking about the history and manufacturing principles. Explaining the basics of concrete technology.
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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
Pictures used:
(1) Own work
(2) Public domain
(3) Gallowgate II by The University of Edinburgh / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-4.0, no changes made creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
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 try to search whether or not it's applicable to also East Germany, Poland and Hungary. First usually through Wikipedia, to at least gather some basic info and learn important keywords to search further. This usually leads to online articles or videos, but also sometimes to 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 for this video:
Books:
(I) "Paneláci 1,2" (Prefabs, parts 1 and 2)
(II) "Když se utopie stane skutečností" (When utopia becomes the reality)
TV and video:
(III) Archive of the Czech/Czechoslovak TV (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(IV) Panel manufacturing videos from Hungary's Lechner Tudásközpont youtube.com/channel/UC0Nz-6g4Ulv7F1RGSWe452g/featured
(V) Panel manufacturing videos from France dailymotion.com/video/x19lwab
(VI) Various YouTube videos after searching "Plattenbau" and "Wielka Plyta" (Germany, Poland)
Other:
(VII) Museum visits, attending historical exhibitions or lectures
(VIII) Own experience and education in material and civil engineering
(IX) Looking at various historical photos, for example among others from pastvu.com
#citiesskylines #altengrad
Building a panel prefabrication plant. Talking about the history and manufacturing principles. Explaining the basics of concrete technology.
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youtube.com/channel/UCMQ3E2ZfpvnUkpUen7iMwHQ/join
Twitter - twitter.com/AkruasStream
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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
Pictures used:
(1) Own work
(2) Public domain
(3) Gallowgate II by The University of Edinburgh / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-4.0, no changes made creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
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 try to search whether or not it's applicable to also East Germany, Poland and Hungary. First usually through Wikipedia, to at least gather some basic info and learn important keywords to search further. This usually leads to online articles or videos, but also sometimes to 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 for this video:
Books:
(I) "Paneláci 1,2" (Prefabs, parts 1 and 2)
(II) "Když se utopie stane skutečností" (When utopia becomes the reality)
TV and video:
(III) Archive of the Czech/Czechoslovak TV (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(IV) Panel manufacturing videos from Hungary's Lechner Tudásközpont youtube.com/channel/UC0Nz-6g4Ulv7F1RGSWe452g/featured
(V) Panel manufacturing videos from France dailymotion.com/video/x19lwab
(VI) Various YouTube videos after searching "Plattenbau" and "Wielka Plyta" (Germany, Poland)
Other:
(VII) Museum visits, attending historical exhibitions or lectures
(VIII) Own experience and education in material and civil engineering
(IX) Looking at various historical photos, for example among others from pastvu.com
#citiesskylines #altengrad
