Cannot build(??)

[LordK9]

Unless you've checked an option about being able to manage a city without governor at the start, you can't do something manually without having a guy ride in to give the orders. It should be floating around somewhere in the game options, I think you can change it during the campaign.

I hate going on memory because I am so often wrong but I believe it is located in your faction area. Click on the city icon then faction icon (I think) - you should see a slide bar at the bottom telling your AI governors how much they can spend. Somewhere above, there should be a box that says something like, "allow AI building" and another that says something like, "allow AI recruiting". Simply uncheck as desired. This will have to be done for each city without a governor but it does remember if you do this then bring in a family member, then later remove said family member from the city.