Well, it's maybe unimaginative but it is efficient ! Why do youn thing New-York (the real city I mean) is like that too ? When they design Manhattan a century ago, they decide to do something unimaginative that could help the city growing to become what it is now ! My only purpose was to have a big center with skycrapers without cheating.
My industrial zone is everywhere, and is only $$$. The garbage are all incinerated or recycled in the middle of a forest to absorb the pollution of the incineration. The city use fusion to have clear and reliable energy.
Lot of you speak of custom content, but im'n not sure I want that...
Anyway I don't know how to help growing more my city. I guess I must try to add satellites cities. Also, there is big traffic problem near the center. I can double the roads there and build another highway, it will maybe change something ?
But my biggest interrogation is why urban decay seems to happen all the time with $$$ residence only. I have to destroy douzen of building every tree year because they are abandonned (commute time too long). I just dont' understand why. Because commute time can't be too long when the $$$ residence is near the center for example ! It's just weird. Also why is a road parallel to an highway completely paralyzed with traffic, when the highway is perfectly fluid (like the habitant don't want to use it, like they prefer to use the congestionned road !)