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

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

“THERE IS A BETTER QUALITY OF ENVIRONMENT IN A SUBURBAN AREA THAN AN INNER CITY AREA.”

What this statement means is that the standard of living would be higher in a suburban area of a town or city than an inner city area.  This is because the inner city area is more crowded and densely populated wit less green area, more traffic, noise and pollution than a suburban area.

  The town I have decided to investigate is my hometown of Billingham. The reason I have chosen Billingham is because I live there, I know the area well and as I live in Billingham I don’t need any transport to get to the areas I have chosen.

  Billingham used to be an important industrial town around the mid twentieth century along with the rest of the Teesside and Hartlepool area. It was renowned for it’s shipbuilding and steel works with deep docks of the River Tees.

  However the shipyards closed due to competitors in Japan offering cheaper prices, cheaper labour and the dated technology at the ship yards in the North- East because the ship yards were privately owned and the owners wanted the biggest amount of profit possible. The North East area could now compete with the rest of the world for ship building but it would cost millions to open a new ship yard with the technology and need for a          .

  Just a few years ago Kaverna was a main oilrig building facility for the world, which is now closed down. I.C.I was one of the main plants in England with a executive their been highly paid and sort after, but now vast parts of I.C.I have been sold off and offices closed. There is still some industry however in this area such as  a Nuclear Power plant which is one of the largest in the world, chemical plants and a steelworks left at Redcar, but that steelworks is now under threat.

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  Billingham offers quite a lot of services.  It has a variety of shops including a chemists, banks and building societies, high street names such as Boots, Woolworths, Argos, Thorntons and Asdas although Asdas is small and the town centre in general is poor compared with today’s standards of high streets.

  The centre has been criticized for the number of charity shops in recent years. The Forum is the main features of the centre the centre and has been for nearly forty years.  There is a swimming pool, an Ice rink, which has recently been revamped to Olympic standard, ...

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