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Discuss the ways in which British cities have become more socially divided in the last thirty years. What are the reasons for this?
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Discuss the ways in which British cities have become more socially divided in the last thirty years. What are the reasons for this? Uneven development is seen as an inherent feature of Capitalist development, and as a direct consequence spatial economic and social divisions have always existed within cities that adhere to this mode of production and consumption. However, the transition from fordism to post-fordism during the seventies has served to exacerbate and increase the effects of the destabilising processes associated with the economic restructuring that characterises Advanced Capitalist economies. One of the consequences of this is that there is a growing polarisation between those inhabitants who are able to take advantage of the flexible production and accumulation of wealth, lifestyle and resources, and a concentration of disadvantaged population whose ability and chance of upward social and economic mobility are severely restricted, by an ever increasing gulf that excludes them from...
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