I have just found and spent the last three days compulsively reading this MD and studying the photos and excellent tutorials, and as a resident of Paris, an architectural historian, and a lover (if newbie) to the fascinating intricacies and possibilities of SC4, I must salute you for the most inspiring, often touching--and not least daunting--chronique of a truly masterful player.
As has been said so often before on this thread, this is simply a superb vision, realized with love, enthusiasm, and infinite patience. That you create such masterful and intricate scenes of forests and villages, farms and a great metropolis, shows a perceptiveness and sensitivity that has found its perfect medium of expression.
You have raised the game to the level of art, and your work is truly an inspiration. Bravo.