The given maps depict how Sawry District neighborhood revolutionized within an interval of a century between 1920 and 2020. Additionally, in the maps, three stylized symbols are used to designate three specific features encompassing apartments, houses, and shops, denoted by a map legend box.
Overall, due to 21st-century urbanization, the neighborhood underwent many deep modifications which can be classified into urban and economic developments.
With regard to urban developments, residential areas has been expanded by 2020, whether on the northern side of Oak Avenue where small houses had been replaced by large apartments or on the southern side where houses had been increased by three times toward the east and had been substituted by two times more apartments in the middle of the area. Furthermore, in the south, half of the forest park was denuded to make way for a new building for Prestwich primary school that used to be in the west on a smaller scale in 1920. Finally, at the northeast corner, the beach area substituted by a bike path.
Focusing on economic developments, Tulebug Bros Cannery factory had been flattened and Yang Office Complex had been constructed in its place by 2020.What’s more, another shopping area was built adjacent to the former one in the middle of the neighborhood. The northern branch of Oak Avenue was expanded toward the north, followed by a bridge over Elmwood River. Finally, the former primary school was substituted by Lonoco Petrol Station in the north of Miller’s Lake