How To Build A City - A Complete Beginner's Guide to Cities Skylines 2
Learn Cities: Skylines 2 the easy way! This beginner's guide is perfect for anyone new to city-building games or looking to improve their skills. From the ba...

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137.5K views • Jan 19, 2025

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Learn Cities: Skylines 2 the easy way! This beginner's guide is perfect for anyone new to city-building games or looking to improve their skills. From the basics of zoning and road-building to advanced techniques for managing traffic, resources, and thinking about city design. Follow along as we learn how to build a thriving city from scratch. Whether you're a complete newbie or just looking for some tips and tricks to take your city to the next level, this video is for you.
This is a vanilla build using the Victoria, BC Map (rural edition) by Poplar Ponderosa.
Map: https://mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/97469/Any
Save game: https://mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/100121/Any
Check out my Instagram page: https://instagram.com/college_builder/
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CHAPTERS
00:00 How to Start Cities Skylines 2
02:29 Function: Getting Your City to Work
06:37 Data: Understanding Your City's Needs
08:25 Using the Happiness Meter
10:35 Have We Destroyed Our City?
14:12 Fixing Citizen Leisure
15:37 Understanding Happiness and Traffic
19:29 Urban Design Principles
22:25 Citizen Flow and Road Hierarchy
25:33 A Holistic View of Function, Data, and Design
27:08 Redeveloping Your City
30:00 Aesthetics: Thinking about Beauty in Your City
33:21 Creating a Green City of the Future
36:18 Connecting Your City's Values and Style
39:05 Education as a Central Value
41:37 Filling in the Gaps with Trees
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HASHTAGS
#citiesskylines2 #Collegebuilder
This is a vanilla build using the Victoria, BC Map (rural edition) by Poplar Ponderosa.
Map: https://mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/97469/Any
Save game: https://mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/100121/Any
Check out my Instagram page: https://instagram.com/college_builder/
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CHAPTERS
00:00 How to Start Cities Skylines 2
02:29 Function: Getting Your City to Work
06:37 Data: Understanding Your City's Needs
08:25 Using the Happiness Meter
10:35 Have We Destroyed Our City?
14:12 Fixing Citizen Leisure
15:37 Understanding Happiness and Traffic
19:29 Urban Design Principles
22:25 Citizen Flow and Road Hierarchy
25:33 A Holistic View of Function, Data, and Design
27:08 Redeveloping Your City
30:00 Aesthetics: Thinking about Beauty in Your City
33:21 Creating a Green City of the Future
36:18 Connecting Your City's Values and Style
39:05 Education as a Central Value
41:37 Filling in the Gaps with Trees
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HASHTAGS
#citiesskylines2 #Collegebuilder
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