@ Benni:
For the city thing you could use wmbs with lod while the first lod of the wmb gets all buildings seperately and the last lod 'collects' them in a single model.
from the V8.00.1b beta - released Apr 23, 2010
A8 ent_create can create several entities at once by loading a WMB entity that contains sub-entities.
There could be better solutions, maybe.
@ Scorpion
JCL, himself, didn't recommend to use animated models for that, because animated models are always slower than non-animated models...