Formerly the name of a ward under Glasgow Town Council in the first part of the 20th century,[a] it is within a continuous area of fairly dense urban development bordering several other neighbourhoods whose mutual boundaries have blurred over time, and is possibly less well known than all of the places which adjoin it, particularly Anderston and Finnieston.

[6] A street plan was laid out and filled mostly with Neo-Georgian terraced townhouses[7][8] in a continuation of development which had taken place further east at Blythswood Hill,[9] the mansion itself being demolished by 1850.

Many of the townhouses in the area around Sauchiehall Street were converted to office use, with one block demolished and replaced by a modernist office block out of keeping with the rest of the architecture other than in its height;[20] the decline of traditional industries led to economic hardship across the city, and locally around Argyle Street;[21] the St Andrews Halls suffered a major fire and were converted to an extension of the Mitchell Library;[13] everything to the east of the library was disconnected (at least visually) from the city centre by the construction of the M8 motorway, with the majority of the old Anderston tenements also disappearing as a Comprehensive Redevelopment Area with brutalist apartments and tower blocks overlooking the motorway in their place;[22] and in the southern portion of Sandyford around Kent Road, several blocks of tenements considered sub-standard due to sanitation issues (i.e. outside or shared toilets) were demolished and replaced by a small playpark;[23] and the Kent Road School was also demolished in 1973, replaced by new buildings for Woodside Secondary School previously located further north at Woodlands.

[b] There are also several established restaurants[c] and bars,[40][41][42] a provision which increased markedly in the 2010s as the wider area (usually marketed as Finnieston) around Argyle Street became more popular as a destination in its own right.

[46] In medical circles, the name is familiar as Sandyford Central, the headquarters of a NHS facility that mainly provides services relating to sexual health and has expanded to branches elsewhere in the city.