Following this link you can see plans of the normand city Rouen through ages. From the roman empire to the mid XXth century.
Follow this link to check it out.
There would be so much to study and say about it. Yet, in several ways, it validates my previous work.I've finally put an end to this experiment and inked the project.
Carrying out this project was so interesting. Yet several improvements should be brought to the process next time as real city development is to be thoroughly studied.
Here is a brief recap of the successive phases :
This will most probably be the final expansion of this first project. I will ink it next and it will be done.
It was so interesting and inspiring to do. I would recommend to do the same. I know there is so much I can still improve in my technique. Any advice or example will be more than welcome before starting a new project.
As the town densifies on, riches and population are attracting bandits and looters. Firstly watch towers are built then a stockade to protect the perimeter. At least, the southern bank for now.
As the population grows, the number of deceased people increases as well. What once was considered as an holy place in the wood is now turned into a cemetery.
Northwest of the town, a stone-pit is dug in the cliffs to provide it with stone.
Thanks to several feedback I got from the previous work, I kept on developing the town.
One clever remark mentioned that building a bridge costs a lot. So the city should first grow on one bank only. As a consequence, I have densified the buildings on the first bank. As the population keep growing, the city house are now almost stacking up on each other. The fields are now pushed a bit further clearing some more woods.
