In the 1930s the town underwent some rejuvenation.

In the early 21st century, Milan underwent a series of massive redevelopments, with the moving of its exhibition center to a much larger site in the satellite town of Rho, and the construction of a new financial district in Porta Nuova.

Avignon, which at the beginning of the 14th century was a town of no great importance, underwent extensive development during the time the seven Avignon popes and two anti-popes, Clement V to Benedict XIII made their residences there.

The superstition of our ancestors, to within twenty or thirty years thereabouts, was such that in almost all the towns in the kingdom they had a notion that certain spirits underwent their Purgatory in this world after death, and that they went about the town during the night, striking and outraging many people whom they found in the streets.

The grill is the traditional symbol of San Lorenzo, deacon and martyr, patron of the town, because in a grill he underwent the martyrdom, slowly burned to death.

A drawing of the plat was done by surveyor Marcus Montelius and indicated that Orangeville has always been known as Orangeville ; several publications have asserted that the town began as Bowersville or Bowers Mills and underwent a name change in 1854.

Beginning approximately in 2003, it underwent a period of development of modestly-sized residences, spurred by similar development in neighboring Hoboken, and the city's attempt to attract developers to what had historically been a town unfriendly to them, according to Mayor Brian P. Stack.

By 1909, the town had a population of 500 as the area underwent a ranching and farming boom.

In this period, the town underwent a change reflecting the then current colonial practices.

It underwent uncontrolled reentry with Kosmos 1686 on 7 February 1991, reentering over Argentina, scattering much of its debris over the town of Capitan Bermudez.

Designed by the architect Bernardo Buontalenti at the end of the 16th century, Livorno underwent a period of great town planning expansion at the end of the 17th century.

Walsall underwent modernisation in the 1970s with a new town centre being built at the expense of some medieval properties.

The new town of Franklin underwent several changes.

In the 20th and 21st centuries, the town underwent a strong urban expansion, particularly towards the southeastern side of Mount Abantos.

Known to the ancients as Bobium or Ebovium, the town underwent many settlements from the Neolithic Age up to the contemporary one.

During the 1700s, Caerphilly began growing into a market town, and during the 19th century as the south Wales valleys underwent massive growth through industrialisation, so to the towns ' population grew.

The south of the town centre also underwent major regeneration, with the new civic centre being built and the town's famous Water Gardens being redeveloped, a landscape listed by English Heritage.

However, as the violence worsened, the town underwent major population shifts.

The town centre recently underwent a £ 75 million redevelopment process.

In the 12th and 13th centuries Jerez underwent a period of great development, building its defense system and setting the current street layout of the old town.

During the 18th century, a much-esteemed Royal Orphanage was established, a church for Protestant worship erected, and the town hall underwent yet another face lift, this time in the Baroque manner.

In the 1960s, the town centre underwent vast redevelopment which saw most of the older buildings demolished.

The town underwent major changes after the Nicolae Ceauşescu regime was overthrown by the December 1989 Revolution, with many factories collapsing under the pressure of the market economy.

Pisa and its Studium underwent a period of crisis around the turn of the 15th century: the Florentines ' conquest of the town led to the university's closure in 1403.

By the 5th century AD, Rome was in decline and the Roman predecessor town of Alicante, known as Lucentum ( Latin ), was more or less under the control of the Visigothic warlord Theudimer.

Around the turn of the 4th century, as Memphis was continuing to decline in importance, the Romans established a fortress town along the east bank of the Nile.

Several factors figure into the decline: one is the fact that the average family nowadays consists of fewer people, so fewer people live in each house ; second, the town is virtually unable to expand because all the surrounding lands were sold to the Gooisch Natuurreservaat by city architect W. M.

During a naval campaign of 1339, and again in 1377, the town was raided and burnt by the French, and seems then to have gone into a decline.

Some have attributed the decline to the rise of the trading town Ingombe Ilede.

His grandfather, Sebald Kepler, had been Lord Mayor of that town but, by the time Johannes was born, he had two brothers and one sister and the Kepler family fortune was in decline.

In 1187, the Crusaders were evicted by the Ayyubid forces of Saladin after their victory in the Battle of Hattin, and the town slowly went into decline.

This event, along with another town fire in 1342, the Black Death in 1349, 1356 and 1365, but above all the rise of the Territorial Princes, led to a gradual decline.

This led to a significant decline of ethnic Germans, whose number within the town decreased from 30, 509 in 1910 to 2, 255 in 1926 and further to 2, 057 in 1934.

From the 1960s, Rockville's town center, formerly one of the area's commercial centers, suffered from a period of decline.

* Evanston, Illinois, a Chicago suburb of 75, 000 residents, became the largest town to ban handgun ownership in September 1982 but experienced no decline in violent crime.

Still, as political and economic fortune had passed elsewhere, the city went into a rapid decline, especially after the founding of the Abbasid capital at Baghdad in the 8th century, and soon became a ghost town.

Because of the economic decline from the 17th to the early 20th century, much of the 16th and 17th century town centre is still intact.

In recent years the largest impact on the town has been the decline of the water frontage which has led to a decline in tourism.

The town went into a decline afterwards.

Although many now attribute the rise of the shopping mall to the decline of the American downtown core, Rouse's focus at the time was on the introduction of malls as a form of town center for the suburbs.

The wool export trade began to decline in the fifteenth century as the industry shifted to the value-adding business of weaving, which was conducted in other parts of the country, the Hansa merchants quit the town, and Boston's wealth declined.

The town experienced a decline in the early years of the 21st century, both economically and in terms of its reputation.

It has also divided opinion in the town, between those who hoped it would help to revitalise the town, and others who feared that local traders would be unable to compete, leading to a further decline of Shepton Mallet's high street.

This led to a significant decline of ethnic Germans, whose number within the town decreased from 74, 292 in 1910 to 11, 016 in 1926 and from 31, 212 to 13, 281 within the district.

The silting of the harbour led to a gradual decline of the town.

By the 19th century, Ironbridge had had many well-known visitors, including Benjamin Disraeli, but by the mid-20th century the town was in decline.

Paper-making in the town has been in decline.