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Advancing into 1960s. Introducing new vehicles and renovating or rebuilding parts of the city with modern buildings. Briefly introducing architecture of the 1960s.
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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
Pictures used:
(1) Own work
(2) Public domain
(3) San Diego photo by Sergei Gussev / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0, no changes made creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
(4) Salzburger Gasse 2 - Regensburg photo by High Contrast / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0-DE, no changes made creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/deed.en
(5) Etoiles d'Ivry @ Brutalist housing project @ Jean Renaudie @ Place Voltaire @ Ivry-sur-Seine by Guilhem Vellut / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0, no changes made creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
(6) Budapest - Marriott Hotel photo by Fred Romero / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0, no changes made creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
(7) Letecký pohled na Ještěd by melechovsky / Panoramio / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(8) Biprostal by Milosz B. / Panoramio / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/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 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:
Books:
(I) "Architektura 60. a 70. let 20. století v České republice" (Architecture of 60s and 70s of the 20th century in the Czech Republic)
(II) "Šedesátá léta v architektuře očima pamětníků" (Sixties in Architecture through the eyes of witnesses)
(III) "Paneláci 1,2" (Prefabs, parts 1 and 2)
(IV) "Massive, Expressive, Sculptural: Brutalism Now and Then"
(V) "Brutalism: Post-war British Architecture"
Journals:
(VI) "The New Brutalism" by Reyner Banham architectural-review.com/archive/the-new-brutalism-by-reyner-banham
(VII) "Brutalism in Poland on the Example of the Architecture of Krakow" by Wojciech Niebrzydowski
TV and video:
(VIII) Archive of the Czech/Czechoslovak TV and cinema news (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(IX) Recent Czech TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(X) Talks with family members, coworkers and friends who worked or studied before 1989
(XI) Museum visits, historical exhibitions or lectures
(XII) Own experience in material and civil engineering
(XIII) Looking at various historical photos, for example from pastvu.com
(XIV) Various online articles about architects and buildings such as the Zieleniak, Haus des Lehres, CDT, Hotel Thermal, Kulturpalast Dresden and many others
(XV) List of "socialist modernist" buildings on socialistmodernism.com
#citiesskylines #altengrad
Advancing into 1960s. Introducing new vehicles and renovating or rebuilding parts of the city with modern buildings. Briefly introducing architecture of the 1960s.
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
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) San Diego photo by Sergei Gussev / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0, no changes made creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
(4) Salzburger Gasse 2 - Regensburg photo by High Contrast / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-3.0-DE, no changes made creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/deed.en
(5) Etoiles d'Ivry @ Brutalist housing project @ Jean Renaudie @ Place Voltaire @ Ivry-sur-Seine by Guilhem Vellut / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0, no changes made creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
(6) Budapest - Marriott Hotel photo by Fred Romero / Flickr / CC-BY-2.0, no changes made creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
(7) Letecký pohled na Ještěd by melechovsky / Panoramio / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
(8) Biprostal by Milosz B. / Panoramio / CC-BY-3.0, no changes made creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/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 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:
Books:
(I) "Architektura 60. a 70. let 20. století v České republice" (Architecture of 60s and 70s of the 20th century in the Czech Republic)
(II) "Šedesátá léta v architektuře očima pamětníků" (Sixties in Architecture through the eyes of witnesses)
(III) "Paneláci 1,2" (Prefabs, parts 1 and 2)
(IV) "Massive, Expressive, Sculptural: Brutalism Now and Then"
(V) "Brutalism: Post-war British Architecture"
Journals:
(VI) "The New Brutalism" by Reyner Banham architectural-review.com/archive/the-new-brutalism-by-reyner-banham
(VII) "Brutalism in Poland on the Example of the Architecture of Krakow" by Wojciech Niebrzydowski
TV and video:
(VIII) Archive of the Czech/Czechoslovak TV and cinema news (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(IX) Recent Czech TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(X) Talks with family members, coworkers and friends who worked or studied before 1989
(XI) Museum visits, historical exhibitions or lectures
(XII) Own experience in material and civil engineering
(XIII) Looking at various historical photos, for example from pastvu.com
(XIV) Various online articles about architects and buildings such as the Zieleniak, Haus des Lehres, CDT, Hotel Thermal, Kulturpalast Dresden and many others
(XV) List of "socialist modernist" buildings on socialistmodernism.com
#citiesskylines #altengrad
