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Connecting people and places/Chapter 3 (Disconnections- segregation (SA…
Connecting people and places/Chapter 3
Disconnections- segregation
SA during the apartheid era and US southern states- racial segregation -pg 95
LOS Angeles - Freeways that block rich from seeing the poor. pg 96
Can feel disconnected from communities that lie beyond by relations of social division, distance, and sometimes inequality -pg 95
Gated communities -pg 95- self segregation of white middle class
Rich could insulate themselves from the poor in Manchester using the throughfares -p95-
Muslim community- north of england -pg 95
Parrallel lives- pg95
Racism forces communities to segregate themselves- i.e in the housing market -pg 95
Neighbouring catholic and protestant communities were seperated by walls in Belfast pg 102
NI interface barriers signify the boundaries between neighbouring communities
Residents avoid other communities in Belfast.- Feelings of fear and separation -pg 105
Segregation means further segregation-pg 106
Shared spaces between catholics and protestants were preceived as unsafe- pg 109
Limited access to services/residential segregation pg 109 and 113
Limited integroup contact -Belfast pg 111
Portland Road- dispersal of workers and people lead to disconnections and the ed of a 100 year old community
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North and south portland road, london
them
and us; Became gentrified with an influx of fashionable well off people .
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People on portland road on the north end feel even more poor and disconnected when they see and walk past the wealthier houses.North and south portland road, london
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Portland Road- the dissapearance of shops and sellers along the street where former connections were made
Connections- segregation
Residents enclosed within a common, bounded territory tend to feel connected -pg 95
Northern Ireland- people within the protestant and catholic groups each share same identity and beliefs and are connected even though not personally aquainted -
imagined communities
-pg98
Manchester -Connected to poverty stricken countries such as india- the cotton trade - British Empire pg 92-93
Belfast- people moved away from the sectasrian conflict to be with people that were aligned to their identity and they felt safer -pg 100
Walls in Belfast made people feel safer in their communities
Belfast - flags and sreet paintings declare allegiances to unionist and nationist causes- sense of group identity, pride, attachment to place and community loyalty- bonding social capital -pg 103 and 117
wall murals celebrate collective history of particular groups in Belfast pg 103
Bohemian part of portland road North and south portland road, london
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Council houses in portland road - wealthier residents shielded from them
Portland Road described as the financial ghetto -video 2
Arnold circus
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5 Reflecting on ‘Connecting lives’
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Class divisions
may shape the human geography of a city- for example the doughnut shape in manchester during the 1800s - pgs 88-90
Segregation
may result from formal processes of urban planning and state intervention, informal practices implemented 'from below' by ordinary residents, or a complex combination of the two.pg 95 It may arise from the organisation of residential spaces (who lives where), educational spaces (who learns where) or employment spaces (who works where)...also everyday life spaces