Bull Island need only be one of many such thriving new neighbourhoods.

The Olympic park would have five new neighbourhoods, including affordable housing, family homes and sought-after gardens.

Crime levels (notoriously high in Venezuela) are reported to have fallen significantly in the new neighbourhoods.

I'm sure you don't need more reasons to jump in your car and explore new neighbourhoods a little further afield.

Many of them were connected by blood with more fortunate parishioners, but economic pressure had scattered them throughout new neighbourhoods and suburbs.

It will then re-open in 2014 after the Park has been transformed from a sporting to a living area with new neighbourhoods and landscaping.

Round a fine old centre of bricks and gables have sprouted new neighbourhoods of smart, low-rise apartment blocks and neat townhouses with well-tended gardens.

It paves the way for hundreds of thousands more flights a year at the west London airport and would bring new neighbourhoods under the flightpath.

That growth will mean additional costs to the whole community in the provision of schools, roads, public transport and electricity to serve the new neighbourhoods.

New neighbourhoods can get creative with locally specific resources, like the eco-district in Turkey which will be heated by pistachio shells.