High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Seattle, Washington contains many districts and neighborhoods. Seattle mayor Greg Nickels has called Seattle "a city of neighborhoods." Early European settlers established widely scattered settlements on the surrounding hills, which grew into neighborhoods and autonomous towns. Conurbations tended to grow from such towns or from unincorporated areas around trolley stops from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Consequently, Seattle has suffered from transportation and street-naming problems.