The aim of the coursework is to prove or disprove the following hypothesis: 'There is a better quality of environment in a suburban area than in an inner city area'

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The aim of the coursework is to prove or disprove the following hypothesis:

‘There is a better quality of environment in a suburban area than in an inner city area’

What is meant by this is that the standards of living would be higher in a suburban area compared to an inner city area. This is because the inner city is a densely populated and more crowded unlike the more pleasant spaced out suburban environment.

        The town which I have decided to investigate is my hometown of Billingham. The reasons that I have chosen billingham are because I live there and I know the area very well and as I live there I don’t need any transport to get me there, also I know my way around billingham very well.

        Billingham used to be an important industrial town around the mid-twentieth century along with the rest of the Teesside area. It was renowned for its shipbuilding and steel works along with the deep docks of the river tees. However as the time past industry slowly started to decline in the area and more industries disappeared. Today ICI is still in the area at both north tees and Wilton sites, and there is only one steelworks left in the area and this is still in Redcar, but now even that is under threat, but as far as billngham is concerned it still offers quite a lot of services. It has a variety of shops such as chemists a local police station situated in the middle of the town, lots of building societies including high street names such as Argos, Woolworth’s, Boots and Dorothy Perkins. But as far as todays high street standards it is severely lacking. The billingham town square has been criticized for its high number of charity shops in the recent years of the town. The forum is still the main feature of the town square after about 40 years. The forum includes a swimming pool, an ice rink, a theatre multi purpose sports hall, rock climbing wall and some squash courts. As the forum is now very old there are new plans for the forum to be announced by the council to update the old complex. The town has also had plans to build a knew super market over the closed down Dunnes, the new tesco supermarket is to be finished off in the near future. This is a hope to attract new business to the town.

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The two areas which I have chosen to look at are the High Grange area (highlighted by the blue on the map) as my suburban area and the Low Grange area (highlighted by the yellow on the map) as my inner city area.

In each of the areas that I chosen I have chosen 5 sample points to help collect results from. The 5 streets that I have chosen in the inner city area are Tintern Avenue, Melrose Avenue, Reivaulx Ave, Kenilworth Road and Finchale Ave. The reasons why I have chosen these streets are because they are evenly spread ...

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