Nice screen shots!

I for one like the new concrete around the buildings and roads and things. What always annoyed me about T1 was the fact that buildings just looked like they were built on the grass, and I could never make a city look like a city (no matter how backward said city was). Esp as those dirt roads were all I had. Fine for shacks, but all my lux condos looked rubbish! I want to be able to have a somewhat modern downtown area (with all the important buildings) and a backward rural area. Afterall, who would build a cathedral or a sports stadium and have it with a dirt road coming up and build it so the current vegitation is all around. No, these buildings shout out 'modern/developed state' and should have a modern infrastructure to go with them (even if it becomes run down pretty quickly). This looks like building a city and making it look like a city will be much easier.