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)
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