For Any Inner City and Rural Area Summarise the Contrasts Between Them and Explain the Implications of These Contrasts on Social Welfare (15 Marks)

Our Town is a play that takes place near the turn of the century in the small rural town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. The playwright, Thornton Wilder is trying to convey the importance of the little, often unnoticed things in life. Throughout the first two acts he builds a scenario, which allows the third act to show that we as humans often run through life oblivious to what is actually happening. Wilder attempts to show life as something that we take for granted. We do not realize the true value of living until we are dead and gone. The through-line of the action seems to be attention to the details of life. Wilder builds up a plot that pays attention to great details of living.

With this large difference it’s no wonder Manchester have a higher infant mortality. However there is another difference in the population which is there are 3 Chinese people, 4 black people, 7 mixed race 8 Asian and 24 non British with 953 white British. This shoes how the southwest is not very diverse and had has a very high population of British people. However in Manchester other groups such as Pakistani and African had the highest population. These statistics show the differences between the two areas and how urban and rural make such a big difference to the statistics. Cornwall being rural its fair to say it’s a more agricultural area with an aging population less access to public transport, on the other hand we have better air quality and les pollution. But Manchester has better public transport link meaning it’s easier to get to different public services and more jobs meaning it’s easy to find work regardless of your ethnic group. You also have to remember that Cornwall is one of the most expensive places to live in the UK second only to London and surrounding areas.

This essay will attempt to show evidence that supports the question ‘Does residential segregation shape the social life of cities and people’s sense of who they are’ by using different types of evidence, such as qualitative, which comes from interviews, focus groups, or even pictures and other artistic endeavours like murals. Whilst quantitative is obtained from statistics, surveys and records. Evidence will be looked at by what has appeared over time, looking at the growth of Manchester during 1800’s, with migration of people from the country side, to the city to take up jobs of an industrial nature and how segregation kept the wealthy and workers apart and the inequalities of conditions they lived in. Then at more recent evidence showing a case study of Belfast and the history of a single street Portland Road in London and how segregation can create connections as well as disconnections in people’s lives and how this shapes peoples sense of who they are.

Surbiton is a small borough in the South-West of London just South of Kingston-Upon-Thames. It has a population of nearly 170,000 people and has been at the centre of suburbanisation for many years now. Much of the growth is form the centre of London

This article discusses the role of political back channels in the siting of social service facilities, with a focus on group homes, arguing that the political back channels impair social services ability to place facilities in neighbourhoods outside of very low-income areas. The authors argue their theory by using a case study composed of interviews, media analysis, and a spatial analysis of the city of Worcester. The article relates to other literature such as Jennifer Wolch and Michael Dear’s works on back channel politics and group homes. The authors are limited due to the article's scope and the lack of research in this specific area of health geography.

Analysis of the policy feedback and funding allocation designs for various government levels and their consequences on rural homelessness might bring shifts to the policy to mitigate rural homelessness. Unemployment is another social problem facing GreatBritain. The people affected are the citizens and legal residents. The social policy effort taken to reduce or to eliminate unemployment in Britain was introduced in 1946 as the “Beveridge Report”, to enable the employed person to pay (eligibility rules based on prior contribution) a national insurance contribution. On the other hand, in the 1990s, The National Insurance Contribution was amended to a tax credit for working families.

Urbanization in Great Britain was key to ushering in industrial capitalism to Great Britain, which brought an increased sum of money into the country. Urbanization was caused by the Enclosure movement and a decline of cottage industries. The Enclosure movement took away land from people that was once considered public land. Many people in rural areas needed land to make a living, and because they enclosed this land, many people had to move away from their cottage industries and move into urban areas to work at factories. Once there was an abundance of food and more population throughout Great Britain caused by the Agricultural Revolution, farmers began to move into cities to work in these factories. However, with more people working in

Radcliffe-on-Trent is a large village in the Borough of Rushcliffe in the East Midlands. It is just to the east of its main city, Nottingham and has a more rural atmosphere. Radcliffe acts as a central area to its surrounding villages for schooling, shopping and recreational activities but is largely impacted by its bigger neighbours Nottingham city, West Bridgford and to a lesser extent Bingham which is to its east. Radcliffe also contains a smaller village, Upper Saxondale which is in its proximity and counts for some of Radcliffe’s population but remains with a completely separate identity. The river Trent runs alongside, from which the villages name derives, but also contains a weir within it which could potentially be used in a hydroelectric dam. Radcliffe is well supported in that it contains several play areas, local and larger grocery shops, news stores, public houses, many sports facilities and schooling from years

Firstly, there is a social need for care for the elderly. We know this is needed because evidence shows that just over 32,200 (25%) in the Vale of White Horse was over 60 in 2015 and this is estimated to rise by 37,300 (28.9%) in 2020 (see A3). This means that we will need more facilities suitable for the older generation. Another social need in the Vale of White Horse is help for those who are unemployed. In the area there are 2,190 people who are unemployed when they are able to work (3.3%). This means that people are not making an income and are not contributing to the economy through work or money. So having support for them will help them to gain a job. If these people are unsuccessful in finding work it means that the ecomy might struggle a little more. Because people aren’t earning any money to pay to the government. Finally, a social need for the Vale of White Horse is help for victims of crime. Evidence shows that there were 137 crimes in Wantage in November of 2015. This means that 100+ people were affected by crime in the area. Some of those people may be mentally or physically suffering and would need somewhere or someone to help them through hard times. These social needs need to be met in the Vale of White horse need to be met as soon as possible because the education system is becoming more difficult for the generations to come to stop the figure growing. This could be helped by introducing more

This is certainly true for Blythe (1999). Throughout the text, Blythe offers description of both the community and its members. For instance, in his description of the relationship to God and the village of Akenfield, Blythe opens his chapter by stating, “Over a third of Akenfield’s population is engaged in the proliferation of Church – or Chapel –based activities, with councils, committees, charities, amusements, social welfare, education, youth work, national organizations and much else, all of it connected with church membership” (Blythe, 1999, p.57). At the same time, he begins many of the oral histories of the book with deep descriptions of the individual he is about too present. In his introduction to the fifty-five year old Thatcher, Ernie Bowers, Blythe writes, “A hard man, they say in the village. They don’t mean hard-hearted but resolute and tough. He has a large family of sons – seven altogether. There is a challenging, raw independence about Bernie” (Blythe, 1999, p.132). These examples of rich and thick descriptions of the landscape, community, country, and people are throughout his work.

A place to call home, a concept that much of society aspires to. A home is a sanctuary, a place to raise a family; home after all, is where the heart belongs. However, does the notion that a house is make a house any less of a home than a house that is owner occupied? Housing policy during the latter part of the 20th century began to shift towards owner occupation. One policy in particular completely changed the face of housing, it brought about the biggest shake up in housing history. The Conservative Government’s ‘Right to Buy’ scheme or ‘Council House Privatisation’ as written in (Baldock, Mitton, Manning & Vickerstaff, 2012), formed part of the Housing Act 1980, the then secretary of state for the environment, Michael Heseltine, stated "This bill lays the foundations for one of the most important social revolutions of this century” (Jones, 2011). Therefore, this essay will answer the question can the “Right to Buy” policy as introduced

Over the years, there has been a very high movement from rural to urban areas and this has made it difficult to improve as well as sustain development in rural areas. The arrival of civilization brought about urbanization. Civilization is the height of man’s inventions as a means of raising his standard of living. Man believes in high-living and indeed obtains much pleasure in the company of other fellow men. People agglomerate in cities to be able to communicate person to person, person to firm person to government. Urban areas constitute the development potential of the state, the rural areas have been neglected in terms of development opportunities. With the declining attitudes that existed in the rural areas the rural dwellers are attracted to the urban areas to benefits from better paying jobs, qualitative supply of basic amenities, highs level of commercial, recreational and industrial activities.

Last March 11, 2014, the Organization of Area Studies Majors (OrgASM) held its first National Conference in Balay Kalinaw, University of the Philippines Diliman. One of the speakers was none other than Dr. Cristina Torres, one of the founders of the Area Studies Program in the University of the Philippines Manila.

participate in urban society and expanded the extent of their participation. In addition, due to the collapse of the danwei system and the delegation of the social functions of danweis, community service has gone beyond the category of social assistance and is now targeted at all the residents. Moreover, the law governing the operation of the market economy has further promoted the specialization, industrialization and socialization of community service. These changes have given rise to changes in the community concept and formation. Communities transformed from the original “quadrangles” and “lanes and alleys” to “unit communities” (residential compounds comprising housing of government organs, enterprises and armed danweis) and then on to open “diversified communities.” Communities have begun to change from sheer residential quarters to integral communities of interests with many functions offering all-dimensional services and constitute a basic danwei of the whole city. Communities have made administration and danweis less important and strengthened regional organization, psychological belongingness, affectional acceptability, interests integrity and service diversification. At the moment new interests converging points and organizations of “city residents” are taking shape, and a lot of intermediary-like “organizations of city residents” have emerged.

friends is most salient. Even it has been seen that in semi urban areas people