[1.02][BUG] Captured city has few buildings but few show up on build menu

I have seen this a few times but it is fairly rare. I capture a city and go to the build screen to see what the city needs. For example, in my current game in one city the only building I can build is Harbor. So I think that all the other buildings have been build. But when I go to the detail screen, the only improvement there is Fortress. I then rush built the Harbor and the next turn the only building in the menu is Watermill. The city is not land-locked, there is room for expansion. Unrest is at 75% but I am not seeing the *no production* message. Looking at my other cities, they all include the option to build Iron Works or Hosten's Library but this one does not.

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I captured a city that was built in a swamp. No available tiles for buildings. I didn't understand what was happening for several turns...

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Two possible reasons:

1. No room to build, because everything around the city is swamps/mountains/rivers.  Remember to hover over tiles, there is a bug that makes rivers look like plains.

2. There another city so close that you cannot build any buildings, but you can still upgrade.  If a city has been snaked too far, especially by absorbing resources, it can come so close that it will stifle another city.