New Darlington

New Darlington officially New Darlington Metropolis. New Darlington is the largest city in New Brunton, it is the capital city of the New Darlington Metropolitan District region and located on the mainland of New Brunton. The city is one of the most important cities of New Brunton as the city is home to many important landmarks and the city is also the financial district of New Brunton.

History
The settlement of New Darlington begun when Japan started to search for new land soon after they discovered New Brunton. The city was a forest, full of trees but when the Japanese found that there were waterways, New Darlington was thought to have been one of the most habitable areas they have ever discovered. The city was famous for its large houses that were built with bamboo that the Japanese brought from Japan. It was then believed that a massive flooding had flooded the whole city, this caused everyone to abandon their homes and they left the city. In the 1850's people came back to the city and rebuilt what was the most livable city. After they began construction of houses and commercial buildings, there was an economic boom in the 1910's, apartments, mid-rise buildings and even high-rise buildings started to spring up from the flat grounds, this also rated New Darlington as the 7th most livable cities in the world. Present New Darlington is now full of skyscrapers and the only city in New Brunton named a metropolis. With the increasing number of high-rise buildings being built every moment, traffic congestion rising every second, becoming more dense and public transport issues. New Darlington could no longer hold 7th place as the most livable cities in the world and dropped to 14th in 2011.

Geography
The city itself is land-locked, however north of the city is Eytan Bay. Further south of the city are hilly mountains. There are also 2 major rivers that run in the city: Hyde River and Dixon River.

Climate
New Darlington belongs to the humid subtropical climate zone, with four distinct seasons. Its winters are generally mild, with January being the coldest month having an average high of 12°C. The city rarely sees snowfall during the winter. Spring in New Darlington starts off mild, but ends up being hot and humid. It also tends to be New Darlington’s wettest season, rainy season occurring between late May to early July. Summers are very hot and humid. In the months of July and August, the average daily high temperature approaches 39°C, while average nighttime temperatures typically hover around 25°C. Autumn in New Darlington sees a cooling trend, with the early part of the season resembling summer while the latter part of fall resembling winter.

Transport
New Darlington has a very high dependency on the automobile for transport particularly in the outer suburban areas where the largest number of cars are bought. The city also has a few public transport methods such as, trains, trams, monorail and buses. There is also a freeway that circles around the city, New Darlington Express Loop goes around all of New Darlington except for the north-east. New Darlington Express Loop also has a four lane tunnel (two lanes each way) that crosses the Dixon River from north to south and vice versa, there are also two bridges that both cross Hyde River one in the very north and one in the very south.

Rail
The New Darlington railway network, Metro New Brunton operates within the city of New Darlington. The busiest station in New Darlington and New Brunton is Gold Bridge Station located in the north of the CBD. Previously there was a large railway terminus, however due to a riot that occurred in 1992 the building collapsed and the rest of it was demolished and transformed into a what is now Central Memorial Park.

Trams
Tram lines operate from Gold Bridge Station and it is owned by Alstom. The tram lines are currently being extended into outer suburbs providing better transportation to the city instead of using the already congested roads.

Buses
A few bus routes are used in the city, the transport network is currently being expanded and the current company Veolia Environnement is thinking of handing over the transportation to another company as it is not so successful.

Monorail
Recently the monorail system that looped around the CBD was demolished due to the fact that no one uses the monorail because it was too expensive and didn't go where anyone wanted it to.

Air
New Darlington currently only has 1 major airport which is New Darlington International Airport located in the suburb of Oxford approx. 30km from the city. Plans for a second airport in New Darlington have also been discussed due to the rising number of tourists coming in from Asia, Australia, America and which is expected to largely increase is from Europe.

Port
Port of Hitomi was the busiest port in New Brunton until the construction of Port of New Darlington and then Port of Hitomi was closed. This resulted to the current development of the Docklands Precinct where Port of Hitomi was previously located. Port of New Darlington still has many expansions awaiting, with lots of container ships arriving every day and also sometimes the large cruise ships.

Health
In the city of New Darlington, there are many hospitals and medical clinics everywhere. The largest in New Darlington is the Royal New Darlington Hospital (RNDH), it has world class technology and located on the Eastbank.

Education
Education in New Darlington is the most cheapest throughout New Brunton even though it is the largest city. Schools, universities and libraries are located at every point of the city. With the city becoming more dense every day, high-rise and medium-rise schools have been introduced into New Darlington and possibly in other major cities including Uta and Tomu.

Parks and open spaces
New Darlington's CBD is quite small, but the city is not just the CBD. Within the CBD, there isn't much air to breathe between the high-rise buildings, however the outskirts of the CBD have more of those urban areas. New Darlington's Metropolitan area has a few reserves, parks and open spaces for e.g. World Plaza, Luminous Center and Central Reserve. Central Reserve is a government owned area where the historical shrines from the settlement of the Japanese are still present today. Some of the governments projects include the urban renewal of abandoned industrial buildings and the construction of Waterfront Island.



Urban development
17 February 2012, Steven Wu announces a proposal to extend the boundaries of New Darlington to merge with the whole Central region. This plan will turn the Central region into the New Darlington Metropolitan District, with this comes the transport problems, new hubs will be built for a subway that has been introduced by MetroLink. The tallest building in New Brunton will be constructed in the outer CBD. The plan will introduce high-rises and mid-rises to be built in the cities of Uta, Omashi, Kingston and Hoddle. Steven Wu says that New Darlington will be like Manhattan, a city with skyscrapers, many transport methods and a better infrastructure.

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Sports
Although sports is not so popular in New Brunton, the largest city still has sporting stadiums. New Darlington Park is a sporting complex just outside the CBD. The complex was built for a plan to bid for the 2012 Simlympics with Uta, however, on 5 April, 2012 it was revealed that New Darlington cancelled to bid along with Uta and instead Uta would bid for the Simlympics.

New Darlington Park

 * Infinity Arena
 * Golden Jet Dome
 * Alliance Park
 * Aquatic Centre
 * Pavillion Stadium

Demographics
The median age of New Darlington residents is 34; 12% of the population is over 65 years old. 15.2% of residents have educational attainment equal to at least a bachelor's degree. In the 2005 census, 64% of the residents identified themselves as Catholic Christians, 14.1% were Buddhists, 14.8% were Shinto, 3.7% left the question blank, 1.7% were Protestant Christians, 0.9% were Jewish and 0.4 have no religion.



Landmarks
New Darlington is the 2nd most visited city in New Brunton just after Hostane. Tourism is New Darlington's main industry alongside with finance, generating total revenue of $3.5 billion per annum. Due to the success of tourism, New Darlington has proposed to construct a tower that will reach heights of up to 800m.

Twin towns and sister cities
New Darlington is twinned with: