BoiseAirport
Nov 28, 2006, 10:39 AM
Hello!
As I'm working with Beveraux, at the same time I thought I'd try a completely opposite city, based in West Virginia. I don't have a street map yet, but I have a teaser screenshot. So here we go!
-- HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA --
Founded in 1886
Population (Metro): 1,837,388
Notes-------------------------------------------------
Huntington, West Virginia, has had a sad history to it, full of corruption, crime, poverty, disease, and mass murder, which continues to haunt the city today. Many people have a sour taste in their mouths when they say "Huntington", mainly because it has the highest murder rate, robbery rate, assault rate, and overall crime rate in the entire nation, making New York City look like Child's Play.
Huntington boomed in the early-mid 20th Century as a steel and industrial town. There was a large boom in construction during the 1940's and 1950's, and many buildings remain there today. Now, it's very common to find factories all over town, producing chemicals, and steel. Sadly, this has led to 3 large disasters involving chemical spills, and explosions.
The population of Huntington is, not surprisingly, decreasing. The spread between the rich and the poor is growing larger and larger. Many tenements and low-rent apartment buildings are being built. This is leading to crimes all over the place. Hate crimes, gangs, and even mafias are building up. Huntington is a very gritty place that only the toughest can live in. It's comparable to Gotham in "Batman".
On August 25th, 1989, a mad city official and his gang took 58 people hostage in the at-the-time largest, and most glamorous hotel in Huntington. He also had a very large homemade bomb with him. For 4 hours the police tried to negotiate, but to no avail. The city official blew up the bomb, which resulted in the 23 floor hotel to partially collapse onto a major city crowd watching the event. It went all too well for the mad city official as almost 900 people were killed in the event.
Unlike any other Google Sketchup city ever made, because this city is so gritty, corrupt, and crime-ridden, I'm going to make almost all the screenshots in a nighttime setting. After all, this could easily be considered one of the worst cities to live in, in the entire US.
Teaser Screenshot-------------------------------------------------------
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4894/huntingtonqx9.jpg
As I'm working with Beveraux, at the same time I thought I'd try a completely opposite city, based in West Virginia. I don't have a street map yet, but I have a teaser screenshot. So here we go!
-- HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA --
Founded in 1886
Population (Metro): 1,837,388
Notes-------------------------------------------------
Huntington, West Virginia, has had a sad history to it, full of corruption, crime, poverty, disease, and mass murder, which continues to haunt the city today. Many people have a sour taste in their mouths when they say "Huntington", mainly because it has the highest murder rate, robbery rate, assault rate, and overall crime rate in the entire nation, making New York City look like Child's Play.
Huntington boomed in the early-mid 20th Century as a steel and industrial town. There was a large boom in construction during the 1940's and 1950's, and many buildings remain there today. Now, it's very common to find factories all over town, producing chemicals, and steel. Sadly, this has led to 3 large disasters involving chemical spills, and explosions.
The population of Huntington is, not surprisingly, decreasing. The spread between the rich and the poor is growing larger and larger. Many tenements and low-rent apartment buildings are being built. This is leading to crimes all over the place. Hate crimes, gangs, and even mafias are building up. Huntington is a very gritty place that only the toughest can live in. It's comparable to Gotham in "Batman".
On August 25th, 1989, a mad city official and his gang took 58 people hostage in the at-the-time largest, and most glamorous hotel in Huntington. He also had a very large homemade bomb with him. For 4 hours the police tried to negotiate, but to no avail. The city official blew up the bomb, which resulted in the 23 floor hotel to partially collapse onto a major city crowd watching the event. It went all too well for the mad city official as almost 900 people were killed in the event.
Unlike any other Google Sketchup city ever made, because this city is so gritty, corrupt, and crime-ridden, I'm going to make almost all the screenshots in a nighttime setting. After all, this could easily be considered one of the worst cities to live in, in the entire US.
Teaser Screenshot-------------------------------------------------------
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/4894/huntingtonqx9.jpg