Winserville

Winserville
—  City  —
Midtown Concordia Midtown Concordia
Flag of Winserville Flag Official seal of Winserville Seal
Nickname(s): "Imperial City"
Motto: "Foward!"
Country	Canador
Province	Winser
Counties	Imperial, Duchess, Harrow, Pharonia, Overson
Historic Colonies	France, Norway
Settled	1601
Founder	Louis Winser
Mayor-Council	Winserville City Council
Government
• Mayor	Javern Ogalak
Population (2010)
• Total	21,301,750
Demonym	Winservillian

Winserville, also referred to as the Imperial City, is the most populous city in Canador and the center of the Winserville metropolitan area; on of the largest urban agglomerations in the world. A global power city, Winserville exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. On one of the world's largest natural harbors, Winserville consists of five boroughs, each of which is a county of Winser Province. The five boroughs— Pharonia, Hampton, Concordia, Harrow, and Franklin Island were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a census-estimated 2013 population of 21,300,000 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km2), Winserville is the most densely populated major city in Canador. As many as 800 languages are spoken in Winserville. making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. By 2013 census estimates, the Winserville - Seringlijå metropolitan region remains by a significant margin the most populous in Canador, as defined by both the Metropolitan Statistical Area (90 million residents) and the Combined Statistical Area (94.3 million residents). In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of nearly CA$4.39 trillion, while in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over $4.9 trillion, both ranking first nationally by a wide margin and behind the GDP of only twelve nations and eleven nations, respectively

History

Etymology

Winserville's name can be traced back to an early French explorer of the region, Louis Winser. Winserville itself is a combination of the province Winser and the word Ville, which together literally means "city of Winser." Winserville was known only by this name until 1898, when the city annexed the nearby cities of Hampton, Harrow, Pharonia, and Franklin Island. The new boroughs kept their original names while the original island of Winserville was renamed to Concordia.

Early History

In the precolonial era, the area of present day Winserville was inhabited by various tribes of Native Americans. The Alaqqinaa occupied the island of Concordia, living peacefully with the Iriskinnae on Long Island.

The first European contact with the region came from the expedition of Frenchman Jacques Perliou in 1524. He claimed the area for France, though the region would quickly be forgotten after Perliou's death.

Winserville would be rediscovered in 1601 by the Norwegian explorer Hans Ottovisk. He sailed up the Kannask River into what is now central Winser, until returning to the Winserville harbor which he documented as being "completely suitable for even the largest fleets." Ottovisk established a permanent settlement on the southern tip of modern day Concordia.

In 1614, the struggling settlement was purchased by Louis Winser of France, who renamed the town "New Paris." A fur trading post was created to provide income to the economy of New Paris. It would be the town's port, however, that would place New Paris on the maps of European settlers wishing to develop the region.

When the Eastern French colonies became independent in 1746, New Paris was renamed to Winserville, an attempt to both distance the newly independent region and an act to honor Louis Winser. Winserville was the capital of Serkouse until it merged with the former Norwegian colonies and became the Republic of Canador in 1771. The city would serve as the capital of Canador for twelve years, until the city of Labrador was voted as the new capital by the National Senate.

The city grew greatly in size in the late 18th and early 19th centuries with the massive influx of European immigrants. it became the premier trading center of the nation and its most valuable city.

Modern History

Thousands fled famine in central Europe and arrived in Winserville in the 1840s. By 1860, the city's population reached 1,174,779, a quarter of which immigrated to Canador within the past twenty years. The industrial revolution made Winserville an industrial giant. factories popped up along the banks of the Kannask and Eastern River's, supplied by the newly constructed South Winser Railroad. Living conditions within the city declined dramatically. The urban poor crowded into poorly built tenements. Families often shared single room apartments in unhygienic conditions. Diseases such as cholera would outbreak, further deteriorating themalready miserable conditions in the city. Ashes and pollution from the nearby factories poured into Winserville, choking the sky and often blocking the sun. In 1898, the Winserville city council voted to expand the city limits and annexed the neighboring cities. These former cities would become the boroughs of modern day Winserville: Hampton, Harrow, Pharonia, Franklin Island, and Concordia. The population of Winserville rose to 3,437,202 in 1900, an increase of 37.1% from the previous decade.

The skyscraper made its first appearance in the city in 1899 with the completion of the 11 story Eismen Building. Downtown Concordia became the epicenter of skyscraper construction, culminating with the 792ft tall Worthington Building in 1913.

Winserville's economy boomed in the bull market of the 1920's. Investors flocked to the Winserville Stock Exchange with the prospects of quick and massive wealth. Automobiles dominated the city streets, ushering in a new era of transportation. The city's subway system, established in 1903, became an example world wide to the uses of mass transit. With the 1929 crash of the stock market, Winserville became the city perhaps most severely affected by the Great Depression in Canador. Unemployment was at a record high of 38%. Breadlines stretched for blocks as individuals spent what little money they had on food. WWII brought the economy of the nation into full production, and once again the city of Winserville became a center of wealth and global Capitalism.

Geography

Winserville is in Southeastern Canador in eastern Winser, and south of the city of Seringlijå. The location at the mouth of the Kannask River which feeds into a naturally sheltered harbor and then into the Atlantic Ocean, has helped the city grow in significance as a trading port. Most of Winserville is built on the three islands of Long Island, Concordia, and Franklin Island, making land scarce and encouraging a high population density.

The Kannask River flows through the Kannask Valley into Winser Bay. Between Winserville and Etrodva, Winser, the river is an estuary. The East River is a tidal strait that flows from Long Island Sound and separates Harrow and Concordia from Long Island. The Ataron River, another tidal strait between the East and Kannask Rivers, separates most of Concordia from Harrow. The Harrow River, which flows through Harrow and Westminister County, is the only entirely fresh water river in the city.

The city's land has been altered substantially by human intervention, with considerable land reclamation along the waterfronts since French colonial times; reclamation is most prominent in Lower Concordia, with developments such as Southern Park City in the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the natural relief in topography has been evened out, especially in Concordia.

The city's total area is 468.9 square miles (1,214 km2). 164.1 sq mi (425 km2) of this is water and 304.8 sq mi (789 km2) is land. The highest point in the city is Vodt Hill on Franklin Island. The summit of the ridge is mostly covered in woodlands as part of the Franklin Island Greenbelt.

Cityscape

Architecture

Winserville has architecturally noteworthy buildings in a wide range of styles and from distinct time periods, from the saltbox style Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House in Hampton, the oldest section of which dates to 1656, to the modern Troskya Tower, the skyscraper currently under construction in Lower Concordia and currently the most expensive new office tower in the world.

Concordia's skyline with its many skyscrapers is universally recognized, and the city has been home to several of the tallest buildings in the world. As of 2011, Winserville had 9,937 high-rise buildings, of which 750 completed structures were at least 330 feet (100 m) high. These include the Worthington Building (1913), an early gothic revival skyscraper built with massively scaled gothic detailing. Winserville has 256 skyscrapers over 200 meters tall.

The 1916 Zoning Resolution required setbacks in new buildings, and restricted towers to a percentage of the lot size, to allow sunlight to reach the streets below. The Art Deco style of the Charion Building (1930) and Imperial Building (1931), with their tapered tops and steel spires, reflected the zoning requirements. The buildings have distinctive ornamentation, such as the eagles at the corners of the 61st floor on the Charion Building, and are considered some of the finest examples of the Art Deco style. A highly influential example of the international style in Canador is the Seagram Building (1957), distinctive for its façade using visible bronze-toned I-beams to evoke the building's structure. The Condé Nast Building (2000) is a prominent example of green design in Canadorian skyscrapers, and has received an award from the Canadorian Institute of Architects as well as CIA Winser for its design. The character of Winserville's large residential districts is often defined by the elegant brownstone rowhouses and townhouses and shabby tenements that were built during a period of rapid expansion from 1870 to 1930. In contrast, Winserville also has neighborhoods that are less densely populated and feature free-standing dwellings. In neighborhoods such as Dalson(in Harrow), Glogas Park (in Hampton), and Douglaston (in Pharonia), large single-family homes are common in various architectural styles such as Tudor Revival and Victorian.

Stone and brick became the city's building materials of choice after the construction of wood-frame houses was limited in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1835. A distinctive feature of many of the city's buildings is the wooden roof-mounted water towers. In the 1800s, the city required their installation on buildings higher than six stories to prevent the need for excessively high water pressures at lower elevations, which could break municipal water pipes. Garden apartments became popular during the 1920s in outlying areas, such as Vierson Heights.

Winserville is located on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The boroughs of Concordia and Franklin Island are (primarily) coterminous with islands of the same names, while Harrow and Hampton are located at the west end of the larger Long Island. This situation led to the development of an extensive infrastructure of bridges and tunnels. Nearly all of the city's major bridges and several of its tunnels have broken or set records. For example, the Divhunan Tunnel was the world's first vehicular tunnel when it opened in 1927.

The Pharoniboro Bridge is an important piece of cantilever architecture. The towers of the Hampton Bridge are built of limestone, granite, and Rosendale cement. Their architectural style is neo-Gothic, with characteristic pointed arches above the passageways through the stone towers. This bridge was also the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge. The Concordia Bridge, Togs Neck Bridge, Triborough Bridge, and Issiano Bridge are all examples of Structural Expressionism.

Boroughs

Winserville is composed of five boroughs. Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of Winser as shown below. Throughout the boroughs there are hundreds of distinct neighborhoods, many with a definable history and character to call their own. If the boroughs were each independent cities, four of the boroughs (Hampton, Harrow, Concordia, and Pharonia) would be among the ten most populous cities in the Canador.

Concordia

Concordia (Imperial County) is the most densely populated borough and is home to Central Park and most of the city's skyscrapers. Most of the borough is on Concordia Island, at the mouth of the Kannask River. Several small islands are also part of the borough of Concordia, including Randall's Island, Tharks Island, and Osolven Island in the East River, and President's

Island and Liberty Island to the south in Winser Harbor. Finally, Granite Hill is a small neighborhood that constitutes a part of the mainland Canador, with a land attachment to Harrow. Concordia is the administrative and financial center of the city and contains the headquarters of many major corporations, the Northern Alliance Headquarters, a number of important universities, and many cultural attractions. Concordia Island is loosely divided into Lower, Midtown, and Uptown regions. Uptown Concordia is divided by Milieu Park into the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side, and above the park is Haloqq. Winserville's remaining four boroughs are collectively referred to as the "outer boroughs".

Harrow

Harrow (Harrow County) is Winserville's northernmost borough, the location of Metro Stadium, home of the Winserville Metopolitans, and home to the largest cooperatively owned housing complex in Canador, Rochester City. Except for a small neighborhood of Concordia known as Granite Hill, Harrow is the only Winserville borough that is a part of mainland Canador. It is home to the Harrow Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo, which spans 265 acres (1.07 km2) and is home to over 6,000 animals.

Hampton

Hampton (Duchess County), on the western tip of Long Island, is the city's most populous borough and was an independent city until 1898. Hampton is known for its cultural, social and ethnic diversity, an independent art scene, distinct neighborhoods, and a distinctive architectural heritage. Downtown Hampton is the only central core neighborhood in the outer boroughs. The borough has a long beachfront shoreline including Kendrian Island, established in the 1870s as one of the earliest amusement grounds in the country.

Pharonia

Pharonia (Pharonia County), on Long Island east of Hampton, is geographically the largest borough, the most ethnically diverse county in Canador, as well as the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world. Historically a collection of small towns and villages founded by the French, the borough has since developed both commercial and residential prominence. Pharonia is the site of Extria Stadium, the home of the Winserville Bears. Additionally, it is home to two of the three major airports serving the Winserville metropolitan area, Faltatian Airport and Erik Krenshaw International Airport. (The third is Neliano International Airport in Neliano, Winser.)

Franklin Island

Franklin Island (Overson County) is the most suburban in character of the five boroughs. Franklin Island is connected to Hampton by the Issiano Bridge and to Manhattan by way of the free Franklin Island Ferry. The Franklin Island Ferry is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Winserville as it provides unsurpassed views of Lower Concordia. In central Franklin Island, the 2,500 acres (10 km2) Franklin Island Greenbelt has some 28 miles (45 km) of walking trails and one of the last undisturbed forests in the city. Designated in 1974 to protect the island's natural lands, the Greenbelt comprises seven city parks.

Climate

Winserville has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) moderated partially by The city's location in the Winser Bay. Winters are milder than many inland cities at a similar latitude: the January average is −7.7 °C (18.1 °F), and lows reach −20 °C (−4 °F) or below on an average 7 days per season. However, the coastal position means that winter precipitation, more often as snow, is frequent and at times heavy: the seasonal snow average is 290 centimetres (114 in). Spring warming is gradual due to the ocean waters still being cold. Summers are mild, again due to the same maritime moderation: the July high is 23.2 °C (73.8 °F). Precipitation averages 1,158 millimetres (46 in) per year, with the greatest amounts falling in late fall and winter.

Parks

• Milieu Park, 883-acre (3.57 km2) is home to many urban parks, perhaps the most famous of which being . Located in central Concordia, Milieu Park became internationally recognized for its landscaping and design it was opened to the public in 1871. To this day it provides urban residents the opportunity to escape from city life and explore its lakes and gardens, including the famous Chinese and Japanese Gardens.
• Gutenburg Park in Hampton has a 90-acre (360,000 m2) meadow, a lake, and extensive woodlands.

Demographics

Economy

Top publicly traded companies in Winserville for 2012 (ranked by revenues) with City and Canadorian ranks
WV		corporation		CA
1		Kerhan Communications		16
2		Obliskk & Co.		18
3		Winserville United		26
4		Canadorian International Group		38
5		SP Bank		39
6		Verpyana		40
7		Pfizer		48
8		Fahna Porshin Group		68
9		Hess		75
10		Eastern Life Insurance		89
11		One Vine		90
12		News Corporation		91
Financial services firms in green
Full table at Economy of Winserville

Culture and Life

Winserville is often described as the center of global culture, being the most diverse city on the planet. The city has been heavily influential in the development of new musical styles and architecture, and continues to attract thousands of artists seeking for inspiration in the urban environment.

Art

Winserville has more than 2,300 arts and cultural organizations and 600 art galleries. In the 19th century, wealthy tycoons donated money to build opera halls, playhouses, and libraries. Today, the average Winservillian is educated to a considerable degree in the arts due to the background knowledge provided by day to day life in the city.

Infrastructure

Transportation

Rapid Transit

Mass Transit in Winserville operates for 24 hours a day. The city has one of the largest mass transit systems in the world. 61% of Winservillians commuted to work in 2011 using mass transit. The city's subway and bus lines are operated by the Winserville Transit Authority

Rail

The Winserville Subway System is the busiest and largest subway system in the world, with 503 stations in operation and hundreds of miles of track.

Winserville's commuter rail network is the largest in North America. It connects the many outlaying suburbs to the city. Grant Station, located in Midtown Concordia, is the largest railroad station in the world.

Buses

The bus fleet serving the region is the world's largest, and operates both in the city and its suburbs.

Aviation

Winserville is served by three major airports; two if which are located within the city boundaries (Pharonia), and the third in the neighbouring city of Neliano. Erik Krenshaw International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the nation. Faltatian Airport, a smaller regional airport, is a hub for regional flights.

Ferries

Taxis and Trams

Streets and Highways

Despite the city's major usage of rapid transit, streets are still a defining feature of Winserville. The street grid layout of Concordia has influenced urban design around the world.

Winserville is also seved by an extensive array of highways and urban freeways, which connect the city to mainland Canador. Due to the massive number of people who commute into Winserville, it is common for the highways to be stopped with heavy traffic, particularly during rush hour.

River Crossings

Government and Politics

Government

Winserville is a metropolitan municipality with a Mayor-Council form of government. It is the most centralized city in Canador, with the city government being responsible for public education, correctional institutions, libraries, public safety, recreational facilities, sanitation, and water supply. Winserville City Council is a unicameral body consisting of 60 Council members whose districts are defined by geographic population boundaries. Each term for the mayor and councilors lasts four years and has a three consecutive-term limit, but can run again after a four-year break.

Politics

The current mayor is Javern Ogalak, who was elected into city office in 2012.

Winserville has long been divided by the Liberal Party and the Labour Party, with the other major Canadorian political party, the Conservative Party, having only a limited representation in city politics. Winserville is the most important city for national campaigns, and receives more campaigning than any other city.

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