autiful woods that had once existed. Since the eighties, the city has expanded such that the interdigitational spatial concept has disappeared and a laissez faire approach to development has taken over in one fell swoop of suburban sprawling. Developers fight over the remaining land left in the town limits and have gone into the quaint neighboring towns of Hollis, Hudson, Merrimack and Derry and stirred up heavy development there as well. Today, as the high-tech companies have begun to move east to Boston and eastern Massachusetts, the demand for homes in Nashua and neighboring towns is high, and the minority population has increased greatly. To solve the problems of overcrowding, there has been a large switchover from suburban home development to condominium and apartments with a suburban theme, including parks and pools, but with landscaping themes that separate them from the government housing of downtown Nashua. Also, the abandoned factories have been converted into luxury penthouse apartments and business offices, which have helped relieve the strain on finding places to develop.Nashua has become a buzzing, populated city that still holds the charm of suburban town with its expansive neighborhoods. It is a city that is still growing and encountering problems with planning: how to deal with traffic, crime in the inner part of the city, and the use of public and protected lands. As it progresses into this century, many more problems and issues will need to be resolved and two sides will need to decide how to modernize the city farther, yet retain the beauty and history of the small factory town it once was, contained along the banks of the Nashua river....
