People are always making and remaking their lives. Streets are made but are always changing and being remade. Society is made and remade through people making the best of the opportunities presented to them at that time or that come their way and how they manage with the day to day change and challenges of life.
Shopkeepers and cafe owners are selling their goods but also providing a safe place and helping to make a sense of community. Jose Ramos Suarez states that they make people feel so secure in the Taste Buds Cafe and they feel so good in there (The Open University 2015a).
Nasreen Khan has a Large Sari shop on city road but before that she had a takeaway business and a grocery, along with some Properties. She has had to look at the changing economy and responded to the need of the population. (The Open University 2015b).
The building are made and then reutilized The Mackintosh Centre, for example, was a Private house, which owned all the land around. Now is a tennis center where people find it intimidating as it looks like a private club from the outside. However on a Saturday it holds a Farmers Market where people can gather to buy food and treat themselves. However, where people have choices like the Farmers Market some have constraints and have to use the food bank not of their choosing but of necessity. They have no choice in the food they are given and most don't want to be there but have not choice.
The Open University (2015a) ‘The life and times of the street, (Part 1)’ [Video], DD102 Introducing the Social Sciences. Available athttps://learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=620287§ion=2 (17.02.15).
The Open University (2015b) ‘The life and times of the street, (Part 2)’ [Video], DD102 Introducing the Social Sciences. Available at https://learn2.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=620287§ion=2.4 (17.02.15).