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We chose to study the suburb of West End as it is known as a diverse and multicultural area. It is currently going through a period of gentrification, becoming a 'hip' place filled with coffee shops, bars, and health stores. We are interested to see what these changes mean to the current residents of the area and how different cultures and influences mix into the community.

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Primary School
Markets
Rock climbing/sports
Neighborhoods, like housing
Musgrave park
Vulture st/ boundary st nightlife
Lower socioeconomic population & homelessness
Greek church
Mosque
Street art
Online community
etc...

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To understand what makes West End a community, there is no more telling source than the perspective of the residents who make up that community. I asked 16 current West End residents to give me a word or words to describe their neighbourhood. The resulting word art reveals the common threads that run through collective conceptions of West End: community, development, convenience, multiculturalism and its hipster-ness. If a community is only as real and cohesive as it is imagined to be, West End residents, in their self-conscious reference to community, show a very strong sense of being a collective. The prevalence of the word 'developing' reflects residents' knowledge of the dynamic and ephemeral nature of what makes up their neighbourhood, including the demographics and the built environment. Indeed, as more high-rise complexes are built in West End, this will yield rapid changes to both. Being an inner-city suburb, residents also cite its convenience as a major facet. Finally, West End is conceived as a multicultural and hipster neighbourhood, speaking both to the visibility of different ethnicities and their cultures (in shops, art, etc.) within the community, as well as the thriving café culture that attracts young people and families from all over Brisbane. Overall, from the results of the word art, it is evident that West End is a vibrant and collectively imagined community whose strength lies in its diversity.

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West End is an inner city suburb of Southern Brisbane and is surrounded by the Brisbane River. It lies 15 minutes south west from the CBD.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2011) the population was recorded as 8,061 people. Family households account for 52.4% of the population, with an average age 2 years below the Australian average, making this a youthful suburb.

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A lot of West End's history is Greek, so there's a lot of different Greek restaurants and a Greek festival there every year...

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Online community-  WEST END COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (WECA)

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Online community-  WEST END COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (WECA)

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community led development
* creates self-awareness
* post materials on events and issues in the area
* shares anything new which is happening in the area via news articles to keep people updated on whats going on
* allows people who are a part of the page to comment and share their views on certain posts

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Over 50% of the housing in West End is standalone housing, aka actual houses. The percentage of "high-density dwellings" is increasing steadily (currently 35%). This could have implications for the way that the community is changing. It's going from a more family-based, sort of neighborhood style living to student accommodation and apartments, which are more conducive to singles and young people. (Brisbane City Council, 2016)

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The online community - Facebook group about  West End

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The online community - Facebook group about  West End

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Community is important because it joins people together in a way that connections are formed amongst people who have something in common, furthermore it creates a network of support and forms a sense of belonging/ association within the community. Through having an online community about West End, it allows the populations within West End communicate in such a way that allows them to be virtually involved with the area, leading to potential relationships to be formed within the area.
WEST END BRISBANE CHIT CHAT
* allows members to contribute on the wall, asking for tips/ recommendations for places in the area
* keeps people up to date on events which are happening in the community

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According to the Queensland council of social services in a survey taken in 2011 1-in-40 people in the inner Brisbane suburbs are homeless, with West End being the most heavily populated.

Community Friends - runs a free food stall for the homeless every week.

Brisbane Period Project - Helping female and transgender homeless

Micah Projects - Advocates for the justice of the homeless

The building underneath, while looking like a regular apartment block is actually a part of a nationwide homeless service called Common grounds. It provides 146 units for homeless and low-income owners, in an initiative to help those displaced by major development in the West End and region.

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Musgrave park is a community space for people to gather with green parklands, a swimming pool, tennis courts, a bowling club, multiple playing fields and a Community Arts Centre. The park comes with a rich heritage, with the Aboriginal community occupying the park for most of it's time carrying out ceremonies, marriage exchanges, trade ceremonies and as a meeting place. It is now home to a major Cultural Center which highlights Aboriginal history and celebrates their traditions (Capelin, 2012). Additionally, it is one of the oldest public parks Brisbane has, which is also home to the annual Greek Festival and NAIDOC week festivities.

Musgrave Park 1893
(Alcock, 1948)

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Pappas, Z., Capelin, S., & West End Making History Group. (2013). A neighbourhood walk through the streets of West End (Revised edition / Steve Capelin]. ed., Street Walker's Guide to West End ; .no. 1). West End, Qld.: West End Making History Group

Capelin, S., & West End Making History Group. (2012). Beyond the boundary : A walk through West End's Aboriginal, Greek and Activist history (Street Walker's Guide to West End ; .no. 2). West End, Qld.: West End Making History Group.

Image: Alcock, Henry. (n.d.). Musgrave Park, South Brisbane, 1893.

Romano,Diana. (2008). 'We Is Human Beings. Musgrave People'. Connecting to Urbanised Place and Country in Musgrave Park, South Brisbane.

Brisbane Community Profiles, Queensland Government Statistician's Office, Queensland Treasury

Commongroundqld.org.au. (2017). Common Ground Queensland - Vision & Mission. [online] Available at: http://www.commongroundqld.org.au/about-us/vision-mission-and-our-core-business/ [Accessed 1 Aug. 2017].

Daviesparkmarket.com.au. (2017). Helping homeless and socially abandoned at West End « Davies Park Market. [online] Available at: http://www.daviesparkmarket.com.au/blog/2016/05/helping-homeless-and-socially-abandoned-at-west-end/ [Accessed 1 Aug. 2017].

Micahprojects.org.au. (2017). Micah Projects. [online] Available at: http://micahprojects.org.au/ [Accessed 2 Aug. 2017].

QCOSS Regional Homelessness Profile. (2011). Brisbane Statistical Division. [online] Brisbane. Available at: https://communitydoor.org.au/sites/default/files/Regional%20Homelessness%20Profile%20Brisbane%20FINAL_0.pdf [Accessed 1 Aug. 2017].