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The street that forms the linear centre of Islington is Upper Street and contains numerous Restaurants , clothes boutiques, present shops and pubs. It is also home to Arsenal F.C. , who are situated in Highbury . HISTORY Because of its proximity to the City Of London , Islington developed as a fashionable area in the Nineteenth Century , with large well-built houses. However changes in residential patterns led to a decline in its popularity, and by the mid-twentieth century it was largely run down and a by-word for urban poverty. Gentrification From about the 1980s the district was rediscovered, and experienced a rapid process of Gentrification , becoming very popular among fashionable people, particularly of a younger generation. A number of the central figures in the New Labour movement lived there, including Tony Blair before his victory in the 1997 General Election , and the district has become synonymous with a new class of left-leaning fashionable professionals, usually described as " Guardian readers" and/or "champagne socialists". Despite this, parts of Islington are less affluent, and Council Estate s sit cheek by jowl with elegant Georgian House s. It is one of the most socially diverse boroughs in the UK and contains the parliamentary constituencies of Islington North and Islington South And Finsbury . In literature Islington features extensively in modern English literature and culture. Notably, Douglas Adams lived in Islington and used it as a setting in his novels. In Neil Gaiman 's best selling novel '' Neverwhere '' Islington is an angel that lives under London, named after the Angel tube station. Knife And Packer 's cartoon ''It's grim up North London'', published in '' Private Eye '', satirises the stereotypical Islingtonian. Holloway Road was the home to the fictional Charles Pooter in the classic 19th Century Novel Diary Of A Nobody . Residents
Fame Islington is well known for its antique shops. The area is also well-known through the British version of Monopoly which features The Angel, Islington . However, in the game the Angel is the third cheapest property on the board, and is said to have been included as the licensees considered the names of places they were to use on the board over tea in the Lyon's Corner House built on the site of the original Angel Inn. UNIVERSITIES Islington is home to two universities;
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