Both place studies must focus on people's lived experience in the past and at present, and either changing demographic/cultural characteristics or economic change and social inequalities
Each place study must centre on how real people actually experience living there, now and in the past. You must also examine either how the population and culture have shifted, or how economic change has created inequality.
Real World
Interviews with Bangladeshi textile workers in Tower Hamlets reveal lived experiences of economic marginalisation that census data alone cannot capture, showing how deindustrialisation deepened social inequality in that community since the 1980s.
Exam Focus
State which thematic lens you are applying (demographic/cultural or economic/inequality) early in your answer to keep your argument focused.
Essay Framework
Use PEEL to structure every paragraph. Tap each step for guidance and an example.
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