City Mapping: Making Buildings

[baltezaar]

First post. I've done some searching, as well as looking closely at a LOT of city maps (specifically, fantasy cities).

Is there any way, beyond drawing by hand or stylus, of populating a city map with buildings? Even if the streets aren't a perfect grid?

Here's an example of a map I've done in Photoshop...and doing the streets and buildings took many hours. Is there a quicker way to do this?

[Larb]

Outside of some generators you can use (like this one) to help speed things up a little, no - not really. Developing a technique you practice with a lot can help streamline or speed things up but city maps are just a lot of work in my experience.