Urban Area
The residential areas cover the majority of the south and north-west of the city, the most affluent areas being in the south-west. A lot of the housing is post-World War II due to wartime destruction of housing by German bombing and post war slum clearance. This quite often took the form of large scale apartment buildings such as Park Hill, although some have since been demolished due to poor construction and high crime rates.
Large parts of the city are industrial, mainly in north-east. These areas saw a large decline during the 1970s and 1980s. The Sheffield Development Corporation was created to arrest this slide. However most of the new developments, such as Meadowhall, are in the service industry. It was also the location for most of the venues for the World Student Games and now hosts the English Institute of Sport.
Although the vast majority of the green space is outside the main urban area, all the parkland and 14.00 km2 (3459 acres) of woodland is within the urban area. The largest park is Graves Park at 0.83 km2, closely followed by Endcliffe Park. The largest wood is Ecclesall Woods at 1.35 km2 (340 acres).
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