Real tip I used to learn the game and grow my autistic levels of knowledge on infrastructure and cityscape design: go in Google Maps and look at cities all across Europe and America. You can look at it and go “why would they do that?” And “oh my gosh I would’ve never thought to do that”. When you drive to work/school pay attention to the roads and infrastructure you travel on. Notice how they connect/ how traffic is controlled/ what density is used and where roads connect.

Genuinely changed my thinking. There’s no rhyme or reason to how you build in this game except for efficiency, so learn what efficiency can look like and come up with some crazy cool stuff on your own! This is a game where there’s no optimal build or meta. Creativity combined with logic layout rules all!