Social lives lived out in and around streets offer to social sciences an insight into modern society. By comparing benefits and losses for different individuals on City Road in Cardiff and Holloway Road in London, this text will show how streets provide a space to transform ways people view their identities. It will be shown that people create communal lives, as well as re-imagine national identities. On the other hand, streets also exemplify separation and inequality, such as an undermining of national belonging, or a division on bases of economic success. Thus, what is seen on city streets is transferable to other places and people, showing patterns of human behaviour that are universal on all streets in the world.
Firstly, making and repairing of society is significant for identities that are maintained and formed on a street. People take part in services, activities and communication, which make them interact and relate to one another in different ways. Different places and premises have a dual function, and offer a space for interaction and a formation of communal life. On City Road, Taste Buds Cafe is not only a place to sell food, but to also 'foster a sense of community' (Blakeley et al., 2009, p.24), and belonging. Similarly, Holloway Road's cafes such as cafe and tearoom Temptations creates a space for an exchange of ideas and experiences. City Road also supports a certain way of life through Saturday farmer's market in the Mackintosh Centre, where local people come together due to a shared interest in foods. Holloway Road offers community support in the same fashion within Lorraine Community Centre facilities, which provide opportunities for socialising from community gardening to sporting events.
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...owners losses in profit. Holloway Road manifests the same trend with increasingly more supermarkets. However, on this street, change is a frequent matter. Therefore, there is not the same nostalgia some people, such as members of the Municipal club on City Road, experience, and transformation of Holloway Road is accepted more easily.
In conclusion, there are positive and negative developments one can observe on city streets. Repairing society means different things and different results for various people, keeping some included and some not, adding to a complex web of social interactions.
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It is not appropriate environment to rebuild the healthy society because the neighborhood level of characteristics affect the individual who lives in. A very good place to start learning with people from your neighbors who are always belong to your daily life such as co-worker, classmates, or boss, who are not living in street or building. They are also your neighbor too and we do not really know everyone who they are specifically and they are also willing to share the experience with other. They are more secure than your neighbor because you can not only easy to access the personal information, but also you can trust someone who is able to communicate in your daily life than who is living nearby your house. Consequently, I disagree with Peter’s ideas which examples and explanation is not proper to making a good social community with neighbor. The neighbor is matter because it is not good environment to trust our neighbor today and may cause many negative impacts with our live or both of us such as emergency situation and social communication, is not we did not try to know the
In conclusion, this essay has outlined an example range of ‘making and remaking’ on City Road in relation to ‘connections and disconnections’. It outlined how differences and inequalities are produced, how a person’s identity is attributed to them by other people and it is not always chosen and finally, the relationship between; society, making and remaking and connection and disconnection.
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Of the many problems affecting urban communities, both locally and abroad, there is one issue in particular, that has been victimizing the impoverished within urban communities for nearly a century; that would be the problem of gentrification. Gentrification is a word used to describe the process by which urban communities are coerced into adopting improvements respective to housing, businesses, and general presentation. Usually hidden behind less abrasive, or less stigmatized terms such as; “urban renewal” or “community revitalization” what the process of gentrification attempts to do, is remove all undesirable elements from a particular community or neighborhood, in favor of commercial and residential enhancements designed to improve both the function and aesthetic appeal of that particular community. The purpose of this paper is to make the reader aware about the significance of process of gentrification and its underlying impact over the community and the community participation.
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