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Changing places
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Case studies
Detroit
Cultural characteristics:
- 1959: Berry Gordy Jr founds the Motown Record Company in Detroit
- 1967: Race riots – more than 7200 people are arrested and 2000 buildings destroyed
- ‘8 mile road’ – a distinct dividing line in the north of Detroit dividing white residents and African American residents
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Reading
Changing demographics and culture:
- the majority of people have resided in the UK for less than 2 years.
- population has risen from 313.9k in 2008 to 347.5k in 2022
- Reading festival was established in 1971 and now has a capacity of over 100,000.
Changing character:
- in 2020 according to centre for cities, over 25% of Readings population worked in private knowledge intensive business services jobs
- Huntley and Palmers (employed 5000 people by 1900)
- TNC’s such as Microsoft being in Thames Valley Park
- Readings infrastructure has changed lots with the Oracle shopping centre being built
- extension of Readings train station in 2015
Economic change and social inequality:
- lots of sectors including information and communications technology, bio-pharma, fin-tech, media-tech and food-tech.
- unemployment rate of 5.3% as of September 2021
- pockets of deprivation with almost 20% of Reading being in the top 10% most deprived areas
- areas like Caversham are much more affluent than other areas
- Readings employment is made up of 59% foreign direct investment as it hosts the largest concentration of foreign owned businesses in the country (over 400)
Artistic representations of Reading:
- can offer valuable insider perspectives
- lived experience and emotional attachment
- offers a 'snapshot' in time
Black History mural- June 1990:
- completed in 1990
- 36 meters long and 3.5 meters tall
- listed as an asset of community value (ACV)
Representation of the 3 B's: biscuits, bulbs and beer:
- Suttons Seeds was founded in
Reading in 1806 by John Sutton.
- Huntley and Palmers biscuits started as a small bakery and then began exporting them across the world
- Simmonds Brewery on Broad st. in 1785
Banksy art- representing Oscar Wilde:
- located on the wall of Reading Gaol
- used to encourage the prison becoming an arts Centre
- an LGBTQ heritage site
Audio-visual- Junction, directed by Ricky Gervais AND Beautiful people (BBC 2)- both have negative depictions of Reading
Location:
- Southeast England, just 61 km west of London
- On the Thames (second longest river in the UK (214.99 miles)) and Kennet and Avon canal (87 miles)
- Reading is 23.55 sq. miles, making it the largest town in the UK
- borders suburbs such as Mortimer, Pangbourne and Shiplake
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