It was suggested I post this here off another thread:
Just had an interesting thought: High-level Bureaucracy + Engineering allows one to do "City Planning," essentially allowing the player to use a specially-demarked area as a sandbox or whiteboard for designing new streets. The Blockmaking and related skills allow one to build additional layers. These then get submitted to one or more devs who decide whether or not this would make a good general form for an upcoming street project (when there's room for one in the queue, of course). The guidelines could be kept reasonably simple (that is, no designing landscape to look like rude words or objects--or at least not *too* obviously so!), and the designer could get some suitable reward at the time the project reaches completion. Thoughts?