City Road Report

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With reference to what you have learnt about City Road,outline how material things contribute towards differences on a street which you know. The street i'm going to talk about is called Staveley Road in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.It is a busy road that leads into the town centre,it has a mixture of shops and houses,two public houses a large playing field and a childrens playpark.it also has a mosque and a church.It has a diverse multiracial community and this is reflected in the range of shops and the people that use them.There is competition for space from both people and traffic and it's these differences which im going to talk about. Differences are produced in the making of society, made by peoples relation to eachother,things…show more content…
where as the food shops in city road stay open until the early hours these places of consumption are then mainly being used by people who have been out drinking,clubbers and people enjoying a night out as was talked about by Naveed Akram of Classic Fried Chicken [`ordered lives`, 2009, scene 5] .Staveley Road is also different to City Road in that it has a large playing field and a small childrens play area,in the day time this attracts mothers with toddlers and schoolchildren,who would perhaps buy a chip dinner and spend their

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