I wish I looked at that thread before.
All of it is very interresting & impressive. I wish I had the knowledge to use that software aswell.
You need alot of patience & imagination. I wait for more !
Otherwise, the closest things I do from this, are hand-drawn maps, but in a similar way, you need to create & imagine the whole urbanism plan. But the problem with Hand-drawn maps is you need to think about it TWICE before drawing it, cause you can't undo
Here are few examples :
I did some sketches with AutoCAD aswell :
And I did a quick renovation concept with Photofiltre of an old abandonned house in Quebec city :
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Unfortunately I did it all before 2010 when I was around 20 ... I don't get enough time these years when I started my career as a draftsman.
It miss me. It was fun.