Urbanism of huge residential expansions. What needs to be built to make them good? Public transport, commerce, jobs and everything else. In the city, I'm building a new commercial center with an urban railway.

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Altengrad is a timeprogression 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 reallife city or country, but it takes inspiration from them.

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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) "Automobilismus a česká společnost" (Cars and Czech society)
(II) "Šedesátá léta v architektuře očima pamětníků" (Sixties in Architecture through the eyes of witnesses)
(III) "Paneláci 1,2" (Prefabs, parts 1 and 2)
TV:
(IV) Archive of the Czech/Slovak/Czechoslovak TV and cinema news (various programmes, news clips or shows from relevant periods)
(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 places shown to get the very basic numbers or history


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