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1
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What is brick lanes location

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In the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

2
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What is Brick Lanes locale

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In 17th century- popular location for breweries

Art and fashion scene- the Old Truman Brewery transformed

3
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Demographics characteristics of Brick Lane: Population

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pop for spitalfields and banglatown:

  1. 9% male
  2. 1% female
4
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Demographic characteristics: age

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High proportion of pop in 20-40 year bracket (similar to other inner London areas due to range of jobs available)

5
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Demographic characteristics: ethnicity

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41% Bangladeshi

41.5% Muslim

6
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Social characteristics and inequalities: deprivation

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One of the most deprived areas In the country - 10th deprived local authority district in England out of 326 in 2015
This is due to gentrification

7
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What percentage of children are in poverty in Brick Lane

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39%

8
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Brick Lane Representations of place: Artistic

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Adam Dants map of spitalfields life- historic background given

9
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Brick Lane Representations of place: Media

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Sally floods poem ‘the brick Lane I see’

10
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Brick Lane Representations of place: Lived experience

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‘The gentle author’ daily blog about spitalfields area

11
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cultural change in brick Lane

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17th century : influx French Huguenots famous for tailoring
19th and 20th centuries: Irish and Jewish pop
More recently: popular place for Bangladesh immigrants - banglatown

12
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Demographic change in brick Lane

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Gentrification: anti-gentrification protests in and around spitalfields sept 2015