Benefits and Losses of Street Life.

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Queens Street (known to locals as Central High Street) is vast street of seemingly every day shops and takeaways. These shops and takeaways run on either side of a pedestrianized street leading along into a small market square. A bustling street much like any other. However, when comparing it to other roads, such as City Road in Cardiff there are both similarities and differences. These are both plus’ and minus’ for the people whose lives are linked to the street and its surroundings and these are very noticeable when looking at the identity of the street, how society itself takes control in the running off it and the constant reshaping of the street and its community. Central High Street is primarily businesses with very few homes in the immediate vicinity. There are many residential complexes and homes in the surrounding area but for the main part of the street it is businesses both large and small. Central has many visitors made up of locals and visitors, who travel there for the services, both regulars and new comers. There seems to be little night life in comparison to City Road and if travelling there of an evening, it seems very quiet, almost dead compared to it heaving daily life. ‘City Road has a local identity as a place for a certain kind of night out and the restaurants there contribute to that. In all of them the national identity has been turned into a kind of commodity, a special kind of food. (Dr Stephanie Taylor, connected lives DVD, scene 1.) A benefits within Central High Street is how it is ordered by those who use the street. The majority of people would create this order without even noticing their contribution to it. On one side of this ordering there is the local authority, the council. This creates control and a general running of the street by the organisation, layout and the daily set up of services. By pedestrianizing the main section of

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