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🧱Brick Lane Distant Place concepts🧱 (Changing places (Demographic and…
🧱Brick Lane Distant Place concepts🧱
Endogenous and Exogenous
Endogenous: local, internal characteristics which create a place's identity - internal
Exogenous: external influences on a place's identity. They are caused by a place's relationship with other places.
Insiders and Outsiders
insiders: someone who knows the daily rhythms of life HIPSTERS
Outsiders: someone unfamiliar with the place, only knows things you can research
or feels excluded - homeless people
coffee shops, gentrification
Experienced and media place
Brick lane film 2007 based on the novel by Monica Ali. In it Nazneen moves from a Bangladeshi village to live in a Tower Hamlets tower block. She brings up her family there but gets involved in a community group supporting Bangladeshi residents against fascists/far right
Poem called 'The Brick Lane I See'
Describes bricklane as dirty and describes how immigrants have changed the place
Changing places
Demographic and cultural characteristics :check:
in the 19th century 90% of the population was Jewish
Proportion of residents by age in Spitalfields and Banglatown:
0-15=1,853=14.7%
16-64=10,073=80.1%
65+=652=5.3%
TOTAL=12,578=100%
Economic change and social inequalities
Over half of the boroughs residents claim benefits
Tower Hamlets is one of the most deprived areas in the UK.
Spitalfields and Banglatown were ranked as the most deprived lower super output area in London 2010.
Street signs in Arabic
hijab arcs
'Banglatown'
Tourist gaze
Spitalfields market
Petticoat lane
sold lace
shops and restaurants
Independent food stalls
graffiti
Different ways of expressionism
"quite like it"
Graffiti tours
Visiting brick lane for the graffiti - California
71.4% had positive views
28.6% people had mixed views
0% had negative views
"different ways of highlighting my personality"
How the different migration waves have impacted Brick Lane 1st French Huguenots, then Irish, then Jews, then Bangladeshi, then Somali
Hugenouts :latin_cross:
Door frames
Shutters
Huge Wooden Sash Windows to let in maximum light
Character brings wealth to the area
Displaces local residents due to a rise in house prices
Roof Windows
French Street names, e.g. Fournier Street
Rag Trade
Making/ selling cloth/ clothes
Dominates Spitalfields
Used money to build houses still there - valuable houses w/ large windows and high ceilings
Petticoat lane market opened, selling lace/ clothes produces therefore Huguenots were very successful
Successs followed by Irish weavers in 1700s , linen industry declined
Area declined during industrial revolution ,mass produced linen outcompeted cottage industries in Spitalfields
After rag trade declined and weavers moved out, the Jewish moved in , it had a reputation for cheap living and worked in the rag trade
At the end of the 19th century, 95% of Wentworth street district in Spittalfields was Jewish
Jews moved out to suburbs (Golders Green, Hendon)
Bengali muslims then moved into the clothing trade
protestant refugees from 18th century France
Irish :shamrock:
opened Christ Church
Restored again in 2002-2004
1950s dance halls
tension towards them because of IRA
Jewish :star_of_david:
Church became Synagouge
Weaver town
Opened Theatres
Sign of David above the school
Soup kitchen for the jewish poor opened in 1902 for poverty stricken new immigrants
Cloesd in 1992, and is now pricey flats
Bangladeshi
Sylheti writing on road name signs
Bengali graffiti
used to be a synagogue, now a mosque
Somali
lastest migration 2000s, can't speak English well
problems for integration
Hipsters
Gentrification
Hipster graffiti
Vintage market
Cereal Killer Cafe
'Riot' occured
Wasn't locals, it was anti-capitalists who rioted
Has been in increase in the number galleys
riots
Conflict
Battle of Cable Street
Clash between metropolitan police and British union of Fascists march, led by Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts in 1936
Most people travelled in specially
Mosely wanted to march in black shirt uniforms through the east end
Antifascists fought with rocks, sticks, and chairlegs
Mosley abandoned the march to prevent bloodshed
175 injured
No fatalities
National Front
Extreme, far right, neo-nazi, fascist
Ideology:
"Only white people should be allowed to live here"
They think racism is good
Condemn mixed race relationships
Euro-scepticism
Hate LGBT/ feminist rights
Altab Ali
25 years old Bangladeshi textile worker, stabbed to death in the neck in east London in May 1978
Murdered while going out to vote
Random, racially motivated murder
His death brought everyone in Brick Lane together and mixed the community. Sense of community changed
'There were many other racist incidents that we just ignored but the murder was the final straw.
The blood of Altab Ali made us realise we couldn't ignore it, or who would be next?'
7000 people marched through London with Altab's coffin
marched up to Downing Street to get national attention
Cereal killer cafe
Riots
Broken windows
Spitalfields Market
Market for 300 years
Moved to a different location
Once traded fruit/ veg - now vintage clothing, chain clothing, restaurants and street food
In Tower Hamlets borough - East London
Liverpool street closest tube station
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