City 3 -- WIP

[Hoel]

Steel general is right about the shadows. Drop shadows doesn't work when they're that far away, it just seems like it's a roof floating above the ground.
The corners of the shadows should be attatched to the corners of the buildings.
Shadows on that scale are a pain, and it's often easier to hand paint them, there's some tuts about 3d shadows out there.

I think you've gone a bit overboard with the fortification with the walled in roads, but you maybe have a reason.
Otherwise you should have some courtyards and gatehouses around the entrances to each district.
I could give you a long post about the principles of medieval fortification if you like, I'm not an expert I do know something about it.
On the other hand, they could be rich enough to build it like this, but it doesn't seem very safe imo.

[Ascension]

Did I not say that these are just placeholder shadows? In case I forgot, these are just placeholder shadows, they are not the final. Steel, you should know by now that I use the motion blur method. There are reasons for the walls, as I said in a previous post, this is a fortified city/citadel. And with that much rock around they don't have to import it, they just need to hack it out of the cliff and stack it somewhere. The town description will help things when I post that part. Seriously, guys...does anyone read? I will try to lighten up the terrain around the slums, hadn't thought about that, so thanks bro...I might flatten it a bit as well.

[Steel General]

Did I not say that these are just placeholder shadows? In case I forgot, these are just placeholder shadows

Ooops! Skimmed right over that part. Hey, its Monday, it's early and only got about 4 hours of sleep.