Yes!

[Gil Galad]

All AI tundra cities are to me is igloos ready to be melted by an onslaught of serious shelling. I like tundra-cities, i like their low-maintanance, and the way they just suck up territory like a sponge. And, I never find that ghey drain on my treasury. To me, every city is a good city.

-Gil Galad

 

[korusus]

The only problem that I have with Tundra cities and Jungle cities and those sort is that they are annoying. Everytime they raise in population they are killed out (at least for a while). They can also become just as good as useless later on (but not really).

 

[LordAzreal]

Tundra cities can only grow if you build them on the coast and rush a harbour (since there's hardly any shields within these cities, unless you plant forests).

Another way a city can thrive in tundra is when wild game can be found around it. Set up a port city in close proximity to wild game, and you can have a thriving city. Simply plant forests in the tundra squares (best possible action with tundra squares). If there are furs there, then that's another bonus as furs increase shield production for some reason.

Once you build a harbour, watch the town grow (slowly but surely) into a city. Once such a city has an offshore platform, there'll be plenty of production within this city as well (unfortunately. offshore platforms come too late to be anything deciding).