The following maps show the the changes of the town Springer from 1970 until now.

The maps illustrate the developments that took place in the coastal

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Springer from 1970 until now.    

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maps reveals a complete transformation from a largely rural to a mainly urban

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.     In the year 1970, the

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was a much greener residential

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with a large number of trees, but by

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year's time, the

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had undergone a number of significant changes. The most noticeable is that most trees were chopped down. Individual houses were demolished, and

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of them, more apartments were built. If, in 1970, the

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of farmland was expanded,

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is now diminished. In the 1970s, the

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of the

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had only one shop,

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, nowadays, the

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school has six shops surrounding it.

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development was the construction of an airport in the north corner of the city.

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, only a few trees near the airport remained.