INTRODUCING SOCIAL SCIENCES
Outline how material things favour the activities of some groups of people over others on a street that you know.
In this assignment I will be discussing Alum Rocks Road in Birmingham in comparison to The Street in Cardiff. I will give my opinion on the street and how material objects have an effect on the population in the surrounding area.
Alum Rock road first recorded in 1718 is a very populated street; there is a mixture of shops, restaurants and other business, the road is predominantly surrounded by Asian clothing shops, loose material shops, jewellery shops, grocery shops, and has a large number of fast food shops. The road is used by people of all ages and ethnicities. Previously there were a number of pubs in the area that have now either been demolished or transformed into some sort of other business. The road also have a catholic primary school allocated towards the bottom, this school is a very multicultural school. The road has pay and display car park that was put in to place 2 years ago, in 2008-09 council traffic wardens handed out a staggering 3995 parking tickets over 12months. This giving you an idea of how busy the road is.
The road has a very mixed ethnicity, in the past Alum Rock was largely known as a home to a large Irish immigrant population now mainly populated by the Asian community. Over the years the roads has commercialized as many years ago, in my childhood, I remember how there were a lot of more franchised supermarkets such as Kwik Save. These were more commercially owned stores. That store today is still a supermarket, but it now owned by Al-Halal, this store is owned by …. The shop supplies fresh produces, from different countries, such as Bangladeshi, British and Pakistani fish, fresh fruit and vegetables, the store provides major branded products as well that are partially a lot cheaper than your local Asda or Tesco supermarket.
Even though Alum Rock road now has a predominantly Asian community, with a large number of
In this assignment I will be discussing Alum Rocks Road in Birmingham in comparison to The Street in Cardiff. I will give my opinion on the street and how material objects have an effect on the population in the surrounding area.
Alum Rock road first recorded in 1718 is a very populated street; there is a mixture of shops, restaurants and other business, the road is predominantly surrounded by Asian clothing shops, loose material shops, jewellery shops, grocery shops, and has a large number of fast food shops. The road is used by people of all ages and ethnicities. Previously there were a number of pubs in the area that have now either been demolished or transformed into some sort of other business. The road also have a catholic primary school allocated towards the bottom, this school is a very multicultural school. The road has pay and display car park that was put in to place 2 years ago, in 2008-09 council traffic wardens handed out a staggering 3995 parking tickets over 12months. This giving you an idea of how busy the road is.
The road has a very mixed ethnicity, in the past Alum Rock was largely known as a home to a large Irish immigrant population now mainly populated by the Asian community. Over the years the roads has commercialized as many years ago, in my childhood, I remember how there were a lot of more franchised supermarkets such as Kwik Save. These were more commercially owned stores. That store today is still a supermarket, but it now owned by Al-Halal, this store is owned by …. The shop supplies fresh produces, from different countries, such as Bangladeshi, British and Pakistani fish, fresh fruit and vegetables, the store provides major branded products as well that are partially a lot cheaper than your local Asda or Tesco supermarket.
Even though Alum Rock road now has a predominantly Asian community, with a large number of