I'm very good at cities, there are my suggestions:
Make small and many houses
If you want to show the inside of each house, try to design the interior by making chairs, tables and such and try to make everything inside small.
Try to only include buildings in the shape of houses.
The ground should be made of a mixture of dark (or bright if you prefer) powders (just put everything inside a huge container and use pressure and positive and negative gravity to make a mixture off of it).
It would be very very nice if you make the city a big island in the middle of the ocean (it would be more nicer if you add one boat with a small smoke particle coming out of it and make sure there is an invisible void to remove it when it reaches a certain distance).