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Um, SimCity? Kidding.
Well, I don't deal heavily into this type of design, but the first things I thought of when I read your post besides how nice a popsicle would be right now would be any CAD application, like AutoCAD or TurboCAD. You could bend those to do probably about the same thing. If you don't want to any bending, I really would suggest that you give an application called Vue d' Esprit a try. You can make 3d movies and pictures and it's not very hard at all. You import items thankfully, as it's almost entirely a nature creation program, and not meant for doing man-made videos/pictures. Look around and see if you can get buildings and bridges to import into it's library.
One caveat about applications like this, and even Bryce/ Vue d' Esprit is that on some graphics cards, they just don't work right. You really have to get a CAD card to do this type of stuff, even in Vue. I know because I use to use Vue d' Esprit on my computer with an onboard Rage Pro. I upgraded my graphics card to a GeForce2 MX 400 and the rendering just went kaput. I had to disable one of the settings in it to get it to work right, but the work environments graphics were horrible, as they really didn't have any textures and stuff, so I couldn't see immidiately whether that Orchid I just put next to the palm tree made it or broke it.
Hope you have some luck, and deep pockets to afford a 3DLabs WildCat or an nVidia Quadro. I would reccommend the Quadro's as some of them are just GeForce4's with special drivers, so you don't lose your 3d acceleration like you do the WildCat's.
One more thing: Look around on the web to see what consumer GeForce2's you can purchase that are able to be converted into Quadro's with a resistor swap/removal. I wasn't able to, my Pine/XFX card was manufactured by a 4 year old it seems.
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