I always liked being able to move around in my city.  In HoMM 5 you could rotate the screen and the city was very pretty.

Master of Magic was kinda strange because everytime you built a new building, old buildings would rearrange themselves.  I wonder if there is a way that we could keep this from happening.

I just hope that there will be one, easy to understand interface to access all of the resources available in my town.  While the HoMM series had cool looking towns, it was always a pain to try and remember which building to click on to get stuff or build and the short-cuts for this weren't exactly obvious (although I think they improved as the series matured, but not a lot).  I do like the GalCiv perspective on building, in that you do it all in one location, can queue it up, and you really don't need to interact with the buildings themselves generally.  I'm NOT a fan of having to place buildings on specific tiles as it doesn't scale well over time, so hopefully a city governor can be employed to place expansions if we don't want to do this ourselves.