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| 150% Population In Adelaide | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 2 2011, 02:46 PM (70 Views) | |
| Laraqua | Feb 2 2011, 02:46 PM Post #1 |
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In my WoD, there's an additional 600,000 people in Adelaide. That's an additional 50%. There has to be. Otherwise, only 20 vampires could live in Adelaide and that's taking the more generous ratio of 1 vampire : 50,000 mortals. For those who can't be bothered reading this whole article, just know that this means the face of WoD Adelaide will be different and more crowded than in our world. The Adelaide Hills Councils are taciturn about letting new developments in their hills (which are as green as they are in our world) though Cudlee Creek has been substantially re-developed to accomodate the new hospital. The C.B.D. is full of tall buildings (though the Westpac building is still one of the tallest and none of the buildings are more than 35 floors high). North Adelaide is the restaurant and salon district. North Terrace and Rundle Street make up the cultural precinct. Rundle Mall, Grenfell, Currie and Pirie Streets make up the main shopping precincts (whereas in our world Pirie Street is more of a business district). Hindley Street makes up an over-crowded red light district (there's not really a proper red light district in WoD Adelaide as it's too diffuse and too many people want a piece of it) though there's some spill over into Currie Street at night. The rest of the C.B.D. is full of expensive apartment complexes, 10-storey-tall corporate buildings, and the odd rundown heritage-listed property like the Box Factory. Yes, even down to South Terrace. The 2025 plan of having more apartment complexes along the main roads has been achieved decades ago and therefore there's a lot more tenements along streets like Diagonal Road, Main North Road, etc. They're cheap because the walls are often thin and you can really hear the traffic. Since anyone with money wants a detached home (about as large as the land it's on), all the poor detached homes have been largely gobbled up by the middle classes (so what would be a detached housing trust home in our world would be owned by a lower middle class family in WoD world) and its the tenement buildings crowding the main roads which are really full of the poor. The exception is in the usual poor suburbs that haven't been re-developed enough to have many apartment buildings and instead have fewer tenements, more semi-detached Housing Trust Homes and a lot of those maze-like Housing Trust blocks with two narrow laneway entrance/exits and a 100 homes in a tight space. Really, you have to go out to Playford if you really want to have much space around your home. Think overcrowding! |
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