Again big cities in America weren't one story wooden shacks everywhere. There were many three story stone buildings, so about the height of most buildings in previous games. Andthere are tall buildings like churches or town halls. These cities have had 100+ years to grow.
But they still aren't like London or Paris or anything, but still not just log cabins.
I know. Where did you get that information from my post? All I was saying is that most of the buildings of that age ARE made of wood and the ones that are not, are typically industrial age buildings which to me are fairly bland in architecture. We will also have almost no extremely interesting monuments to look at which was a lot of the fun for me. Those cities may have had 100+ years to grow but they did not have enough of a drive to construct massive monuments or really get a true sense of history to them. 100 years is not a whole lot for a colonial city to grow and start making monuments.
For the most part, the most exciting buildings we will see, will be variations of this. http://alluringamericas.com/images/fi1526.jpg , and for the most part will look like this http://www.engr.psu.edu/mtah/images/NewburghNY1880col.jpg . If it is historically accurate. There will be SOME churches and Townhalls but those will not be the rule they will be the exception. There was no white house yet. No Washington monument. These were at this time just colonial cities with their main functions being to generate revenue. Monuments and great buildings would not be on the priority list. Not even close.