City Journalers: When you do your city journal, do you ever try to make your cities genuinely "aged"?

[WeBuiltThisCityOnSimCity 40]

I try to. I'm writing a journal and I try to make the city founded at a certain date (ex. year 0 at 1690). Then I try to keep the architecture true to its period and only change styles when I feel the time period fits it (so no high rises until year 1870) and a.destruction period during the World Wars, then rebuilding with more modern buildings.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

I have done so the same with both of my CJ's. NoG (Nexis of Genesis) starting at year and WRP (The Winding River Project), the last one being on SC4D, starting in 1950 and being in 1967 today. Everything is also grown and very few are plopped, making this more interesting, since you ahve to adjust the story to its growings.

mrb

[Ocram's Razr 963]

My individual cities are rather monotonous but my oldest cities are about 500 years old. I take lots of pictures but I only keep 2 city journals (Mezaton Regional Experiments and Mezaton XL, the first Cities XL city journal, using fictional elements).