Residential areas of cities

L.O. To understand why residential segregation

existsTo 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?

University

Uplands

City Centre

Fabian Way redevelopment area

Hendrefoilan

Student Village

University

Brynmill, Bryn-Y-Mor, St Helens

Uplands

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.

Solutions?• 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”

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)