In 1920, the five neighbouring municipalities of Woensel ( to the north ), Tongelre ( northeast and east ), Stratum ( southeast ), Gestel en Blaarthem ( southwest ) and Strijp ( west ), which already bore the brunt of the housing needs and related problems, were incorporated into the new Groot-Eindhoven (" Greater Eindhoven ") municipality.

Substantial amounts of local authority housing were built at Cottonmill ( to the south ), Mile House ( to the south-east ) and New Greens ( to the north ).

The area north of the Highway # 1 from the South Central Peninsula is called the North End ; both areas being predominantly urban residential older housing which is undergoing gentrification.

As a result the centre of Waterlooville borders fields to the west just a few hundred meters away, while to the north, east and south it is bordered by housing estates and Cowplain and Purbrook respectively.

In the 1950s Finglas was developed with extensive housing estates, to re-house many north inner-city Dublin residents.

On the southern side of the town, on a triangle of land bounded on the east by the A37, on the north by the line of the former East Somerset Railway, and on the west by Cannard's Grave Road, is Tadley Acres, a modern housing development built on land partly belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall.

Although fashionable housing and businesses developed in downtown, the increase in industry and the development of new suburbs both pushed and pulled retail and residential development to the west and north after World War II.

From the late 18th century to comparatively recent times, Battersea, and certainly north Battersea, was established as an industrial area, with all of the issues associated with pollution and poor housing affecting it.

The effect was precipitate: a population of 6, 000 people in 1840 was increased to 168, 000 by 1910 ; and save for the green spaces of Battersea Park, Clapham Common, Wandsworth Common and some smaller isolated pockets, all other farmland was built over, with, from north to south, industrial buildings and vast railway sheds and sidings ( much of which remain ), slum housing for workers, especially north of the main east – west railway, and gradually more genteel residential terraced housing further south.

The area to the north of Coram's Fields consists mainly of blocks of flats, built both as private and social housing, and is generally considered part of St Pancras < ref >< cite > View London.

To the north of Hornsey High Street, and immediately to its south, the area is largely public sector housing, save for the more upmarket development by the New River.

Most of the housing north of the Western Avenue was built in the 1920s-1930s, and is in the private housing sector.

* The two towers of the disused RAF radio station north of the town are situated in the Wood End wireless station recreation ground, which is bordered on all sides by housing ( Bayshill Rise, Lancaster Road, Blenheim road ).

As part of the 1951 Festival of Britain, a new council housing estate was built to the north of the East India Dock Road and named the Lansbury Estate after him.

The same era also saw the construction of the Robin Hood Gardens housing complex ( overlooking the northern portal of the Blackwall Tunnel ) – designed by architects Peter and Alison Smithson – and the similarly brutalist Balfron Tower, Carradale House and Glenkerry House ( to the north ) – designed by Ernő Goldfinger.

However, to the north, east and south, poor quality housing and urban decay is still prevalent.

Further to the north and west lies the town of Whitton, an area once of allotments and farm land but now of 1930s housing.

In the north part of the borough, there is a greenbelt strip of highly affluent housing in the areas of Northwood, Pinner and Stanmore.

In addition to this, to the north of the borough, the large housing estates of Harold Hill and Collier Row were constructed to deal with the chronic housing shortages and early slum clearance programmes in central London.

The Genoese traders fled, taking the plague by ship into Sicily and the south of Europe, whence it spread north.

It is commonly believed that double-rhythm shag evolved after these, as the dance spread to the north.

Its suburbs spread out over some area, beginning at Lee Point in the north and stretching to Berrimah in the east — past Berrimah, the Stuart Highway goes on to Darwin's satellite city, Palmerston, and its suburbs.

This started to change around the end of the third millennium as cities started to spread to the nearby hilly country: among the Assyrians in north Mesopotamia, the Canaanites in Syria-Palestine, to the Minoans in Crete, and to the Hittites in eastern Anatolia.

On his gravestone is written: " May your spirit live, May you spend millions of years, You who love Thebes, Sitting with your face to the north wind, Your eyes beholding happiness " and " O night, spread thy wings over me as the imperishable stars ".

By 8500 – 8000 BC farming communities began to spread to Anatolia, North Africa and north Mesopotamia.

The spread of printing to cities both in the north and in Italy ensured that there was great variety in the texts chosen for printing and the styles in which they appeared.

The university traditionally centers on the Lundagård park adjacent to the Lund Cathedral, with various departments spread in different locations in town, but mostly concentrated in a belt stretching north from the park connecting to the university hospital area and continuing out to the northeastern periphery of the town, where one finds the large campus of the Faculty of Engineering.

It was first started in Mesoamerica and spread north.

The operation's headquarters are at Dahlgren, Virginia, and radar stations are spread out across the continental United States at roughly the level of the 33rd parallel north.

As it spread north along the Mississippi River and to the West during the gold rush, it is thought to have become a part of the frontier pioneer ethos.

The genus is thought to have originated in present-day western China in the foothills of the Tian Shan, a mountain range of Central Asia, and to have spread to the north and south along mountain chains, evolving into a diverse group of over 20 widely recognized primary species.

In recent history, elements of Southern cuisine have spread north, having an effect on the development of other types of American cuisine.

Other churches rose in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and soon spread north into Connecticut and New York, and south into Virginia and the Carolinas.

The Tanganyika government expected the violence to spread to Tanganyika, especially in the north where the Wa-Chagga live — but violence did not spread there from Kenya.

WNV has now spread globally, with the first case in the Western Hemisphere being identified in New York City in 1999 ; over the next 5 years, the virus spread across the continental United States, north into Canada, and southward into the Caribbean Islands and Latin America.

The sultanate's influence also spread north into the Philippines, where colonies were planted in Manila Bay.

This loom was used in Ancient Greece, and spread north and west throughout Europe thereafter.

Their ancient eastern Indonesian cousins spread the plant west and north through insular and coastal Southeast Asia.

Meanwhile, the German defenders would be spread out over trying to contain the pockets of airborne forces, from the Second Army in the south to Arnhem in the north.

Since the late 1980s, however, the city began a rapid spread north to where Yangon International airport now stands.

The valley, however, is thinly forested and is spread out to the north and west.

The Evenks are spread over a huge territory of the Siberian taiga from the River Ob in the west to the Okhotsk Sea in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to Manchuria and Sakhalin in the south.