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Changing Places Distant Place Study: BRICK LANE Flashcards

1
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What is the location of Brick Lane?

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  • Tower Hamlets borough of East London.

* Passes through Spitalfields.

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How has the major industry associated with Brick Lane / Spitalfields changed over time?

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  • Early 17th century: popular location for breweries / market.
  • Late 17th century: French Huguenots -> silk weaving.
  • 18th century: Irish immigrants -> weaving / tailoring (linen).
  • Now: art and fashion industries.
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How has the population of Brick Lane / Spitalfields changed over time?

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  • Traditionally white British.
  • 17th century influx of French Huguenots.
  • 18th/19th/20th century influx of Irish / Jewish community.
  • Recently influx of Bangladeshi immigrants -> “Banglatown”.
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How have the demographic changes to Brick Lane / Spitalfields altered the area physically?

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• Multicultural place.
• Variety of religious places of worship
-> Huguenot church, Methodist chapel, Jewish, synagogue, Muslim Mosque.
• Weekly Bangladesh newspaper has its office here.

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5
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What do guidebooks say that Brick Lane is the place for in London?

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Good cheap curries.

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6
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What percentage of Brick Lane’s population is economically active?

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80.1%

Aged 16-64.

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7
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What percentage of Brick Lane’s population is aged 65+?

What does this mean?

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5.2% = low proportion of dependency.

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What percentage of Brick Lane’s population is Bangladeshi?

How does this compare with London as a whole?

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41% Brick Lane.

2% London.

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9
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What percentage of Brick Lane’s population is White British?

How does this compare with London as a whole?

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27% Brick Lane.

47% London.

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What percentage of Brick Lane’s population is Muslim?

How does this compare with London as a whole?

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41.5% Brick Lane.

<20% London.

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What percentage of Brick Lane’s population is Christian?

How does this compare with London as a whole?

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  1. 4% Brick Lane.

48. 4% London.

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What was the population of Brick Lane / Spitalfields in 2011 according to census data?
What percentage is male and female?

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12,578 total population.

54% male, 46% female.

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13
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What is the population density in Brick Lane / Spitalfields according to 2011 census data?
How does this compare to the borough average?

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145 people per hectare.

129 borough average.

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Does Brick Lane / spitalfields have a youthful or ageing population?

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Youthful.

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What is the deprivation ranking of Brick Lane in 2010 and 2015?

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2010 = most deprived decile out of 10.
2015 = 2nd most deprived decile.
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True or false: Spitalfields and Banglatown was in the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England

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True.

17
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How has IMD changed in Tower Hamlets between 2010-2015?

Why?

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Tower Hamlets is less deprived now than in 2010.
-> due to gentrification, middle class families moved to poorer parts
18
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Name the main social characteristics / inequalities that are present in Brick Lane / Spitalfields.

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  • Crime.

* Children in poverty.

19
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How many crimes were reported in Spitalfields and Banglatown in February 2017?
What for?

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338 crimes reported.

Majority for antisocial behaviour, theft, drugs.

20
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Give the percentage of children in poverty in Tower Hamlets in 2012.
How does this compare to London as a whole?

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39% Tower Hamlets.

23.5% London.

21
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How many schools are within a 3 mile radius of Brick Lane?

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336 schools.

22
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How many schools out of the 336 in the 3 mile radius of Brick Lane have a ‘good’ ofsted rating?

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150 = ‘good’

23
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How is Brick Lane represented by art?

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  • Reputation for art and fashion.
  • ‘The Mecca of London street art’ - London Ravish website.
  • Hackney Post has interactive map of street art in neighbouring Shoreditch.
  • Huge number of new galleries opening -> helped financially by gentrification of the area and increasing tourist numbers.
24
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How is Brick Lane represented by maps?

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Local artist / cartographer Adam Dant made map of Spitalfields life, 2011.
• Identifies key locations within the area today + historic background of a variety of places.
• Inc people who have made the area special eg artist Tracy Emin, chestnut seller Fred.
• Dant’s map has a strong sense of place.
• Good example of counter mapping.

Charles Booth’s Poverty Map (1890).
• Interviewed families, characterised into 7 categories eg ‘well-to-do’, ‘viscous, semi-criminal’.
• Colour coded houses of a large parts of London.
• Shows Brick Lane has a range of fortunes.
• Nearby Whitechapel -> widespread poverty.

25
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Define counter mapping

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A bottom up process where people produce their own maps, informed by their local knowledge / understanding.

26
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How is Brick Lane / Spitalfields represented by media? (Guidebooks)

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Go Britannia, travel guide.
• “An excellent place to find a good cheap curry restaurant”
• “19th century..slum of narrow alleyways..one million people were crowded..decaying houses”
• “Today is a busy narrow road”
• “You might just meet a television newscaster, a member of parliament, or another celebrity”.

  • > was deprived, now thriving, popular.
  • > likely biased.
27
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How is Brick Lane / Spitalfields represented by media? (Blogs)

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Spitalfields Life, the Gentle Author - 2009 daily blogs.
• Thousands of readers around the world.
• Talks about people and their lives -> culture of spitalfields.
• “Exuberant richness + multiplicity of culture”.

-> positive, depends on individual perception.

28
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How is Brick Lane / Spitalfields represented by Poems?

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Author: Sally Flood.
• “Small time drug peddlers sell their dreams”.
• “Hopeful prostitues”.

-> crime, hope - one persons interpretation.

29
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How is Brick Lane represented by books? (Also films)

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Brick Lane (Monica Ali).
• Street offers opportunity, freedom, independence to a young Bangladeshi girl who immigrated for an arranged marriage.
• New type of society / community.

On Brick Lane (Rachel Lichtenstein).
• “Vibrant, dynamic community”.
• “Gangsters, artists, shopkeepers, street life”
• “Always vocal people”
• Immigration -> fascists, anarchists, Jews, Bangladeshis.

30
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Where has regeneration taken place in Brick Lane / Spitalfields?

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Truman’s Brewery (1669-1989).
Market place.
Housing improvements.

31
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How has regeneration in Brick Lane / Spitalfields changed the area?

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Truman’s Brewery (1669-1989) struggled from competition of imported lagers / merges among British breweries.
-> now an 11 acre site containing exhibition space, workshops, boutiques, cafes.

17th century market place sold fruit + veg at small stalls / sheds.
-> now tourist attraction selling artwork, fashion, homewear accessories, vintage clothing, antique furniture.

Housing improvements eg Fournir Street.
-> displacement of original residents - “hotbed of immigrants”..”no longer has a fraction of the character” (The Guardian).

32
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What did many national newspapers report on the subject of gentrification in Brick Lane / Spitalfields?

A

Reported many anti-gentrification protests in and around Spitalfields in September 2015.

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