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Evolving the city's history and influences

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Evolving the city's history and influences

- In 3D, we can hatch a city in a few days or a matter of weeks. A bigger city might take longer but we can do it in such a ridiculously rapid rate that's just not feasible in the real world. Cities evolve over time, so it's our role as the designer to say, "How do I evolve my city, and what's gone on "as part of that evolution?". In this panorama I've stitched together, again, in Downtown Seattle, we can see on the extreme left is a fairly modern apartment or condo building. It's got a modern, larger front on the bottom and then apartments with balconies on the next floors. Next to it, the full, older building on the left is older, we can tell it's made of stone, that the windows are smaller, there's fewer of them, we think we can see maybe just a little brick peeking up on the side, it's definitely an older structure but it's next to a gleaming glass and steel neighbor. And so again, this is a modern building. And then on the right of the image is that old, beautiful, ornate…

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