In this thread, we'll talk about the area you live in and the neighborurhoods one can distinguish there. I'l talk about Puławy, Poland, where I live: Light blue - downtown. Hosts the local government buildings, bank offices, two parallel shopping streets (low-rise buildings and 2-story strip malls from early to late 20th century), the shopping mall district (two normal malls plus two anchor store ones, all built in the 90s/00s where an army base was) and some points of interest (e.g. hospital, cinema, four-star hotel, town square). Yellow - east uptown. Mostly low-rise (3-6 story) residential built from the 1950s to the 2010s, sprinkled with groups of pre-WWII and postcommunist larger houses or communist tower blocks, as well as mid-rise office buildings and department stores in the northern part and a tower block neighbourhood in the southern part. Lower-middle to upper-middle class. Red - west uptown. Much less architecturally diverse, pretty much all of it is 60s and 70s tower blocks, with occasional mini-malls and 2-story strip malls. Lower to middle-class. Black - north suburb. Made of three types of homes: largish 70s and 80s blocky socialist-era ones (lower-middle and middle class), normal modern contemporary residential (some terraced) (middle to upper class) and a bunch of pre- or early post-WWII small houses (lower class). Light olive - east suburb. Most of it is recently-built large modern contemporary detached houses and a neighbourhood of smaller terraced ones (middle/upper-middle class), but the neighbourhood's western part is modern low- and mid-rise residential (lower-middle/middle class), and the east side is decrepit pre- and early post-WWII houses (lower-class). Green - south suburb. Houses from pre-WWII to 2010s, and from small cottages to McMansions. Neat along the main road, turns a bit worse off it. Has some small stores and bars. Lower class to upper-middle class. Pink - Roma ghetto. Low-rise residential built to house the Roma forced to abandon traditional travelling in the 60s and 70s, shows the failure of racial segregation. Dark olive - commercial. Legions of differently-sized businesses dealing in different stuff (e.g. construction materials, bicycles, US import cars, etc.), plus a Lidl, a restaurant and a hotel. Dark blue - built-up riverside. Consists of some riverside leisure area (bars, restaurants, port), large-area commercial (big-box stores, sand and gravel sales, used cars) and lower-class residential (projects and rundown old houses). Light orange - leisure areas. Czartoryski noble family's palace and park, unoccupied riverside and some weekender cabins. Light green - riverside suburb. Rundown old houses, commercial area (e.g. construction material sales), open-air pool complex. Dark orange - forest. Purple - industrial area, the site of the Puławy Nitrogen Works, the EU's #2 fertilizer factory. And how does it look in your city (you don't need to include a map, but it would help)?
Fall River, MA: Commercial - Various amounts of modern business, and a few old businesses. Some are Portuguese targeted, others are typical American businesses. There's also a growing marketplace called Southcoast Marketplace, consisting of stores, a movie theater, a parlor, and restaurants. Other businesses can be old, like Al Mac's Diner. Industrial - Consisting of mostly abandoned textile mills that the city was once known for. A few are acquired as for small businesses, though they never changed the exterior of the mill (besides adding signs) Historical - The majority of the city, varying from the 19th-century/20th-century houses to the dated mills. Some are well-preserved, like Lizzie Borden's house (home to the infamous axe-murders of 1892). Residential - Made up of American Foursquare era homes for the most part, and most are wood-frame based. Downtown - Locale of governmental buildings, and more businesses. Some of these buildings are much newer than the houses here in Fall River, especially the Brutalist-styled Government Center.
I'm going to talk about the small town that I was raised in. Yatton, North Somerset: Yatton is a large village/small town that I was raised in. The town is separated in two parts by the railway line that runs through it. The northern half or "North end" is almost completely new-build residential (70s-00s) with no shops but a few factories to compensate. It has one modern chapel and a park. The southern part is where the shops and the co-operative supermarket, both infant and junior schools (Yatton does not have a secondary school), restaurants, pubs, doctor's surgery, vets and pubs are located. The main church is also located here, and dates back to the 14th century. It also has 2 parks and a rec. There are no factories however. Buildings here date from <1700s-70s and there are few new buildings. The town is mostly middle class with about 30% being working class, 65% being middle class and 5% being upper class. Yatton is a predominately white community (Not to say that it isn't multi-cultural, I myself am A quarter Turkish a quarter Spanish and Half South African) and the Conservative party have easy victories. 60% of locals have a Bristolian-Somersetian hybrid accent, and the town has a Train station that sits on the major Bristol-Exeter mainline. Yatton Train Station also used to act as a junction station for the large Yatton-Wells or "Strawberry Line" branch line and the smaller Yatton-Clevedon branch line. Both lines were victims of the Beeching axe and were shut down and the track lifted in the 60s. This had a major impact in the town. Yatton's railway station now acts as the station both for Yatton and for the larger town of Clevedon. Luckily the Yatton-Wells track bed has been converted into a cycle path up to the village of Cheddar. Any other track bed of both lines has since been built over and forgotten, However it is still possible to see both track beds from Google maps, although it is hard to see the Clevedon-Yatton line as it has been severed by the M5 motorway and built over. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yatton https://www.google.com/maps/place/Y...x2b9647c6188d0117!8m2!3d51.388168!4d-2.822503
