Before becoming a residential suburb in the 1900s, the area was used for chicken farming, cattle farming, and coal mining.

The village developed into a significant industrial and residential suburb in the late nineteenth century, due primarily to its engineering works and west city tramway terminus.

It developed as a residential suburb starting in 1947 when the first sizable housing tracts were constructed and its population boomed in the 1970s and 1980s.

Including varying styles such as, modern, old town, residential suburbs, a local harbour and an airport.

Trams, automobiles and town planning encouraged the separate development of industrial suburbs and residential suburbs, with laborers commuting between them.

There are also people like me, townies who grew up in the surrounding suburbs and have moved here for a more satisfying life.

As the city's population grew and cars became commonplace, more residents and businesses relocated to surrounding suburbs.

Certainly our city centres and their surrounding suburbs are quieter than they have been for decades - for centuries.

She described the family and extended relatives as closeknit and said many lived in surrounding suburbs.

They believe that unearthing stretches of buried rivers and creating new parkland could help to cool the capital, which can get markedly hotter than the surrounding suburbs.

It's a wealthy suburb, with not that much eccentricity left there.

Police have warned about burglars targeting properties in wealthy suburbs after a sharp rise in break-ins.

As urban decay started a gap between the wealthier suburbs and poorer cities, state income taxes were implemented to stop the gap.

Sprawl may have a negative impact on public schools as finances have been pulled out of city cores and diverted to wealthier suburbs.

The vast majority of schools still lack the resources that are taken for granted in wealthy suburbs.

The collapse of an illegally built residential block in a working-class suburb last month highlighted one consequence of the unmet need with tragic clarity.

Although the area was a predominantly working-class suburb for much of the 20th century, it has undergone some gentrification since the 1990s.

He was brought up in a working-class suburb, in a family aspiring to reach middle-class status.

It was mainly known as a working-class suburb.

It wasn't until 1867 that a cheap two-penny workers' ticket allowed working-class suburbs to grow.