residential areas of cities l.o. to understand why residential segregation exists to understand the...

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)