On City Road there are many differences and inequalities among the people, who live, work and enjoy the street. The existence of the Food Bank is a clear example of them. As shown in the film people visiting the market have the freedom of being able to purchase and chose what they like, where people attending the food bank do not have that freedom and choice as to what they would like .Another example can be seen in the experience of somebody suffering with physical impairment, a person like Stephan Sweetman .…
I will describe the inequalities I have witnessed on City Road, these will be religious, cultural, gender and financial.…
As a matter of fact, the article states “The affordable –housing crisis is complicated by the fact that housing tends to be more expensive in good areas with transportation.” Pottstown, which is considered to be a suburban area located in Montgomery county one, needs a car because of the distance from getting place to place. In the same way, Welch is seen as a poor rural area and needed to rely mainly on automobiles for transportation. However, in the city, transportation is more available even though space is limited and more congested. In general, when living in the city, it’s easier and there is better access to public transportation, which consist of buses, trolleys and subways which runs more frequently.…
These interactions highlight the socioeconomic characteristics that have come to define modern society and reveal the plight of the urban poor who are the most likely candidates to consistently rely on a free of charge public transportation options such as the Charm City Circulator. This scene therefore, offers a glimpse into something far more complex than a man who smells bad getting off a bus because he was getting dirty looks. It provides a synopsis of society defining norms which permit judgement and criticism of those who are unable to help their situation but on the other hand denies access to public transportation for someone who needs it the most. In this ethnographic work, I want to display how the socioeconomic inequality of the city of Baltimore pours into its public transportation system. To do this, I will focus on the conflicts that arise from interactions between people of differing socioeconomic backgrounds and show how these conflicts typically have a clear victor who is, as logic would assume, the socioeconomically more privileged individual. Without knowing the precise income of all individuals travelling on the Charm City Circulator, I will provide three major groupings. The group occupying the highest up socioeconomic position are the white-collar residents of the city along with most people affiliated with…
Mass transit such as light rail trains, buses and subways are all within walking distance from most homes and businesses. The goal of transit is to have fewer car trips and highways, shorter commutes, less car-exhaust pollution and more time for family and community life. Mixed-use zoning allows for shops, restaurants, offices, and homes all to be within walking distance of each other or even in the same building. With most of life’s necessities within walking distance, fewer car trips are made, easing pollution and encouraging community interaction. Allowing for apartments and offices above stores provides patronage for shops, living space for lower-income residents, and activity for the sidewalk. An interconnected street network distributes traffic evenly and makes walking easy by offering direct routes between points. Connected streets ease traffic by providing drivers with alternative routes, making streets narrower and safer to cross and less land intensive. Different housing types such as apartments, row houses and detached homes occupy the same neighborhood. People of different income levels can mingle and may come to better understand each other.…
Seeing the profit potential in the flow out of the city centers, supermarkets followed suit. Many parts of the country are now left with a great deal of convenience shops and liquor stores, but few grocers who carry enough variety to enable their customers to have a balanced diet. And you are what you eat. (I really like this saying. Not only are we what we eat, but we are what we do. Food and weight are important topics for myself. We want to feed our children good food and give them access to a variety of cuisines.) In her 2007 study Examining the Impact of Food Deserts on Public Health in Detroit, Mari Gallagher points out that the residents of the Motor City who have significantly fewer options for their grocery needs lose 11 years of life per 100 people as compared to those who simply have easy access to a grocer who can supply them with fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and dairy products. She also explains in the study that a whopping 56% of food stamp purchases were made at convenience stores, many of which only sell prepackaged food, which is notorious for containing the high amounts of salt, fat, and sugar that cause and exacerbate the aforementioned health problems.(you did a great job here putting out viable information for the reader and showing them what you have professionals to back up your…
City Road has a good example of differences within a society. This street has a wide variety of restaurants/cafes and take-away shops, all serving food from different parts of the world. These restaurants and take-away shops cater for different people who have varied dietary needs and tastes. They also vary in price thereby serving food of varying quality according to cost of producing the type of food they serve.…
Some neighborhoods in the United States, particularly those in low-income areas, have been dubbed "food deserts" because residents do not live near supermarkets or other food retailers that carry affordable and nutritious food. Low-income residents of these neighborhoods and those who lack transportation rely more on smaller neighborhood stores that may not carry healthy foods or may offer them only at higher prices (Nuitrition Week 2010:1).…
To begin, Wilson explains how location of jobs, cost of child care and medical insurance, training and education required for jobs, and racial segregation are factors of joblessness in these inner cities. Each of these factors caused many people in the inner cities to become unemployed. Some cause people to become unqualified to work, and some cause inner cities residents to become obsolete. One factor makes the job too far away and causes the people unable to get to the job.…
“According to Christensen, a physician and a chair of the CBC Health Braintrust, African Americans living in low income neighborhoods where the industries polluting the environment are located, there are no grocery stores within walking distance, and no transportation to take them to the stores that have healthier food items” (Gordy, 2011). People in low income neighborhoods are often, forced to shop at the corner store or the liquor store and the choices there are limited and seldom healthy choices. Low income neighborhoods are also over populated with fast food restaurants and no gyms or safe parks and trails to allow adults to get the exercise they need. It is important to be aware of these facts when communicating with someone who is African American and from a low income neighborhood.…
The development of ghettoes in the United States continues to rise. A major cause for places such as East St. Louis to exist is the growing number of immigrants into the U.S. The immigrants that live in the slums and ghettoes of America come from third world countries. A large number of the immigrants are willing to work for less, are not accustomed to the American society,…
3) The problem is that the poorer neighborhoods have very low concentrations of healthy food alternatives and the resources that are available to them is out of their meager budget range, according to “Does Healthy Food Cost More in Poor Neighborhoods An Analysis of Retail Food Cost and Spatial Competition” by Hatzenbuehler, Gillespie, and O’Neil, and “Yale News “Healthy Foods Scarce in poor Neighborhoods”. There are many ways to solve this problem but only a few would be in general…
ACCESS TO FOOD.: IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, ACCESS TO FOOD IS NOT TOO FAR SINCE ALL…
Department of Agriculture conducted a 1-year study to assess the magnitude of areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food. The study found that 23.5 million people live in low-income neighborhoods that are more than 1 mile away from a supermarket or large grocery store. Also, the study found that these poor neighborhoods had half as many supermarkets as wealthy neighborhoods have. Furthermore, the study revealed that eight percent of residents in low income areas are African American compared to 31 percent of whites.5 In West Louisville, Kentucky, where the low-income African American neighborhoods are located, there is only one supermarket for every 25,000 residents, compared to the county average of one supermarket for every 12,500…
Choosing a place to live is an important decision in everyone`s life. In fact, the conditions…