Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Building the largest plaza in the city with commercial, office and residential new modernist architecture, replacing the old city blocks. Heavily detailing the final surface and making everything functional.
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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) FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula - Németország, Berlin 1970
(2) FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula - Németország, Berlin 1970
(3) FORTEPAN / Lencse Zoltán - Németország, Berlin 1971
(4) FORTEPAN / Kristek Pál - Németország, Drezda 1969
(5) FORTEPAN / Gwen Jones - Németország, Drezda 1970
(6) Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, Rynek Katowice, 1989
(7) FORTEPAN / Gergely János - Csehország, Prága 1965
(8) FORTEPAN / Jakab Antal - Csehország, Prága 1972
(9) FORTEPAN / Fortepan - Magyarország, Veszprém 1970
(10) FORTEPAN / Bojár Sándor - Magyarország, Veszprém 1974
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) "Šedesátá léta v architektuře očima pamětníků" (Sixties in Architecture through the eyes of witnesses)
(II) "Když se utopie stane skutečností" (When utopia becomes the reality)
TV:
(III) Archive of the Czech/Slovak/Czechoslovak TV and cinema news (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(IV) Various clips of Alexanderplatz (ardmediathek.de/video/aktuelle-kamera/sprengungen-am-alexanderplatz/ard/Y3JpZDovL2hyLW9ubGluZS8xMjMwMzA)
military parades (found on YouTube) and others
(V) Recent Czech TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(VI) Museum visits, historical exhibitions or lectures
(VII) Looking at various historical photos, for example from pastvu.com, fortepan.hu, old maps
(VIII) Various online articles about the squares
#citiesskylines #altengrad
Building the largest plaza in the city with commercial, office and residential new modernist architecture, replacing the old city blocks. Heavily detailing the final surface and making everything functional.
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) FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula - Németország, Berlin 1970
(2) FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula - Németország, Berlin 1970
(3) FORTEPAN / Lencse Zoltán - Németország, Berlin 1971
(4) FORTEPAN / Kristek Pál - Németország, Drezda 1969
(5) FORTEPAN / Gwen Jones - Németország, Drezda 1970
(6) Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe, Rynek Katowice, 1989
(7) FORTEPAN / Gergely János - Csehország, Prága 1965
(8) FORTEPAN / Jakab Antal - Csehország, Prága 1972
(9) FORTEPAN / Fortepan - Magyarország, Veszprém 1970
(10) FORTEPAN / Bojár Sándor - Magyarország, Veszprém 1974
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) "Šedesátá léta v architektuře očima pamětníků" (Sixties in Architecture through the eyes of witnesses)
(II) "Když se utopie stane skutečností" (When utopia becomes the reality)
TV:
(III) Archive of the Czech/Slovak/Czechoslovak TV and cinema news (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(IV) Various clips of Alexanderplatz (ardmediathek.de/video/aktuelle-kamera/sprengungen-am-alexanderplatz/ard/Y3JpZDovL2hyLW9ubGluZS8xMjMwMzA)
military parades (found on YouTube) and others
(V) Recent Czech TV programmes like historie.cs and others
Other:
(VI) Museum visits, historical exhibitions or lectures
(VII) Looking at various historical photos, for example from pastvu.com, fortepan.hu, old maps
(VIII) Various online articles about the squares
#citiesskylines #altengrad
