A neighbourhood or neighborhood (see spelling differences) or simply a Hood's a geographically localised community within a larger city, town or suburb. Neighbourhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members. Neighbourhoods in the Past: Preindustrial Cities The spatial division of cities into districts or neighbourhoods's one of the few universals of urban life from the earliest cities to the present. In the words of the urban scholar Lewis Mumford,… (More on Neighborhoods)