Jembatan Basi + Northwood Irvine (contrasting social equality)

Question 1

Basic facts about Northwood

Answer 1

• 50/50 male female spot
• 50% are white
• 60k population
• Northwood was a planned village
• very safe and friendly community
• highly achieving schools
• crime rate 61% lower than natural average
• FBI claimed it as safest place to live
• excellent health care
• many hospitals
• 20 community parks
• renewable energy sources eg wind turbine
• high income leads to a good diet
• 20.5% of people have masters/doctorants
• lots of job opportunities

Question 2

Basic facts about Jembatan Basi

Answer 2

• Jembatan Basi is in Jakarta which is the capital of Indonesia
• dangerous to live as slowly sinking (17cm a year)
• lots of slums
• only half a km squared with 31,000 people (half Northwood)
• people are happy though poor
• government doesn’t have resources to cope with the high number of people wanting to live in Jakarta
• high self employment and family run businesses
• poor sanitation, few homes with toilets
• many water diseases eg cholera
• tropical + hot humid climate means that malaria + hepatitis are big issues
• toilet sewage flushed into roads or rivers
• lots of rubbish and litter on floor
• common for People salvage food or second hand goods from waste tip
• illegal tap into electricity causes fire which can spread rapidly due to density

Question 3

Difference in incomes between the two

Answer 3

• northwood average income is $113,000
• Jembatans is 4 dollars

Question 4

Average household size in each place

Answer 4

• Northwood is 2.8 people in a large house costing 1 million dollars on average
• jembaten has 5 people on average in houses made out of anything they can find eg bamboo and scrap metal