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1 Residential areas of cities L.O. To understand why residential segregation exists To understand the causes, impacts and responses to “studentification”

2 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?

3 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?

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6 Universit y Uplands City Centre Fabian Way redevelopment area Hendrefoilan Student Village

7 University Brynmill, Bryn-Y-Mor, St Helens Uplands

8 Causes, consequences, responses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC3LLbXRyY ohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC3LLbXRyY o 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).http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/may/ 15/highereducation.students What are the key issues here? You can also look a the issues/solutions identified on parts 2 & 3 of the documentary – on youtube.

9 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”

10 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.

11 Further reading: University websites Estate (lettings) agents in university towns Guardian article (see Moodle) YouTube films (see Moodle)

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