The eastern boundary where Glasgow meets South Lanarkshire (the Rutherglen neighbourhoods of Burnhill and Newfield) is difficult to observe from ground level as it involves houses backing onto one another right up to the border in most places.

Toryglen is residential in character, built mainly south of Prospecthill Road between 1947 and 1962 by the Scottish Special Housing Association[3] on land which was previously a farm and a golf course.

), which lay overgrown for some years but was cleaned and landscaped in the early 21st century to be maintained as a 'community woodland',[16][17] and was granted Local nature reserve status in 2015.

[21][22] 'The Circus' underwent comprehensive redevelopment by the Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) in the early 21st century, culminating in a major development by Cruden Homes, with construction taking place between around 2015 and 2018,[23] leaving the area virtually unrecognisable from the way it looked a few years prior.

[24][25] The 851 tenement flats and 232 tower block apartments in the south of the district (managed by Thistle Housing Association) were also refurbished externally, including brighter rendering and energy efficiency, in the 2010s.