Drawing on What You Have Learned About City Road from Making Social Lives Dvd and Learning Companion 1, Describe...

metropolis course in Cardiff is a main arterial route and a busy diverse community both(prenominal) live, work and travel along and through it. The street that this taste discusses is quite different to City Road. Friday Street in the seaside town of Minehead is located at the top of a piddling town centre and is occupied by self-directed shops and the genuine things that create winners and losers which will be examined next.

To gain an understanding of who lives and uses Minehead and curiously Friday Street, there is a large Butlins which attracts both young adults on alcohol fuelled holidays and families. The town centre in Minehead is split mingled with catering for the Butlins visitors with novelty gift shops, arcades and chip shops and the aging and economically struggling local population.

Friday Street caters very much for the local population which creates inequalities. Amongst the diverse nonparasitic shops along Friday Street, there is a mobility shop catering for the elderly population which is prevalent in the area. By selling only items aimed at bulk who hit mobility difficulties, this creates winners of the elderly and losers of the younger or more mobile population.



Minehead is a place where people prefer to buy locally from people that they know and trust which has created winners in Friday Street as galore(postnominal) local business thrive there, from Barbers to cake makers, carpet sales to newsagents. This preference for the trusted known and local shopkeeper has created winners of the independent shops. Turning to City Road, there are many examples of how independent shops catering for particular groups have thrived such as Xquisite Africa, who caters for peculiar(prenominal) ethnic population prevalent in the City Road as seen in Making Social Lives on City Road, (2009).

Looking further at how Friday Street has created winners, the layout of the street has created equalities for both traffic and pedestrians alike. There is a single carriage means road with on-road free of...If you want to get a entire essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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