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One traveling along the Wrightson Road, immediately after ferry terminal, which is also a stone’s throw away from Sea Lots “settlement” would be bombarded by giant glass and concrete skyscrapers. This can be highlighted as the junction into the city’s Central Business District (CBD). Thereafter Sea lots the height of the buildings would have gradually increased, and so would continue further with similar infrastructure.

During an interview with a young adult male who resides in Sea Lots, he pointed out that the people in his community have very little interaction with the functioning of this part of Wrightson Road, instead most times they would find themselves carrying about their shopping along Frederick, Charlotte, Duke and Nelson street. Apart from that, he highlighted that the residences of Sea Lots have grown accustom to not being dependent on the inner city, which resulted in them providing their own goods and services within their neighbourhood, so one would fine small shops, mini marts and vegetable stalls, poultry and fish markets.

According to (Smith 2002) he compared events or development and urbanization in developed countries and assumes that it may also apply to other developed or even lesser developed countries.  He says that, with continued increases in urbanism its focus is to divert capital production rather than social production since they have become growing metropolitan economies and investments. As an emerging urban and global strategy came gentrification to increase the value of the urban center- cities whilst conserving cultural or heritage reserves yet allowing capital production to be upheld. Therefore it is quite obvious that here onwards the city’s purpose stems from power and governance.