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it becomes the exceptions - which point to how things can be different - that
appear most worth looking for. 18
So much for the static image. The next question to ask is: now that we can
see the landscape, how is it changing? Then, what movement keeps it alive and
what alters it? These are questions that stretch the limits of visualization as a
methodology. In the final part of this work the problem of envisioning the history
and geography of social structure simultaneously will be addressed, suggesting
possibilities for new methods for the integration of all this information to create
a consolidated image of British social history and geography.
Time and space intermingle. The pictures presented up to now show the
situation at a single point in time, but those of immigration and birthplace (just
shown) also tell of a different past, aspects of change that are the focus of the
next chapter.
18 'This, then, is the South - South divide. It is a divide which appears in employment opportu-
nities, in wage packets, in each job's content and potentialities. It reappears in the car park and the
bus queue, in the green of the garden and the size of the room. Each part of the divide has its own
daily timetable and its own life cycle' (SEEDS, 1987, p. 10).
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