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Residential areas of cities. L.O. To understand why residential segregation exists To understand the causes, impacts and responses to “studentification”. http://www.londonprofiler.org/. Some areas of cities develop characteristics associated with a particular group of people.
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Residential areas of cities L.O. To understand why residential segregation exists To understand the causes, impacts and responses to “studentification”
http://www.londonprofiler.org/ • Some areas of cities develop characteristics associated with a particular group of people. • What does London Profiler identify? • What about the Bangladeshi community? • Jewish? Ghanaian? Nigerian? Polish?
Examples…? • What about University towns/cities? • Examples: Loughborough, Swansea. • What do students need? • How does this affect the characteristics of the residential areas they live in? • What do you notice from the photos that follow?
Hendrefoilan Student Village City Centre Uplands Fabian Way redevelopment area University
Uplands Brynmill, Bryn-Y-Mor, St Helens University
Causes, consequences, responses. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC3LLbXRyYo • Read the Guardian article about the Uplands & Brynmill areas of Swansea (http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/may/15/highereducation.students) and watch the film (also on Moodle). • What are the key issues here? • You can also look a the issues/solutions identified on parts 2 & 3 of the documentary – on youtube.
Increase campus accommodation? Move new developments to a non-residential area? Are there any? “SWANSEA UNIVERSITY HAS PUT ITS STUDENT VILLAGE UP FOR SALE AS PART OF PLANS TO BUILD A £200M SCIENCE & INNOVATION CAMPUS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CITY. THE HENDREFOILAN VILLAGE IN SKETTY, HOUSING 1,644 STUDENTS, WILL EVENTUALLY MAKE WAY FOR UP TO 270 HOMES OVER 2 PHASES FROM 2015. STUDENTS WILL THEN BE HOUSED AT THE NEW CAMPUS” “Swansea University: New science campus work starts in April 2013” Solutions?
Practise question • (c) Explain why ghettos develop within some urban settlements. [10] • June 2012. • Answer this with particular reference to students, but you can also refer back to the London Profiler section if you want.
Further reading: • University websites • Estate (lettings) agents in university towns • Guardian article (see Moodle) • YouTube films (see Moodle)