ABSTRACT
This chapter examines sociological and geographical conceptualisations of space and time in relation to the processes which have formed an inner city area of Leeds, England. It focuses on the human interventions in the landscape which resulted in the mixture of buildings, roads and 'open spaces' that characterise the territory. Visitors to Leeds will only find Chapel town if they acquire 'local knowledge'. The chapter discusses the effects of the changes in the circulation of money and of information in the life of the area. It provides a vehicle for an argument about the implications of globalisation on the space–time of the city of Leeds and on Chapel town in particular. Eastern European Jewish migrants originally settled in the Leyland, then moved a mile or so out to the North Street area, and then, from the 1930s onwards another mile north into Chapel town.
