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New-build Studentification: A Panacea for Balanced Communities?

Sage, Joanna, Smith, Darren, Hubbard, Philip (2013) New-build Studentification: A Panacea for Balanced Communities? Urban Studies, 50 (13). pp. 2623-2641. ISSN 0042-0980. (doi:10.1177/0042098013477694) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:36621)

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Abstract

Rising concern about the negative impacts of students on 'host communities' has triggered debates about the consequences of studentification in the UK. For some commentators, purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) appears the panacea for studentification, as it offers the potential to reintroduce balance to studentified communities by redistributing student populations in regulated ways. This paper explores this contention, drawing upon focus groups and household surveys conducted in the vicinity of a PBSA development in Brighton, UK. The paper concludes that the location of this development in a densely populated neighbourhood has engendered adverse student/community relations, conflict, feelings of dispossession and displacement of established local residents. It is asserted that future developments of PBSA should be mindful of these issues and their implications for questions of community cohesion, quality-of-life and belonging in established residential communities. These findings are discussed in relation to debates of age differentials, segregation and new-build gentrification. © 2013 Urban Studies Journal Limited.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/0042098013477694
Uncontrolled keywords: age class, future prospect, gentrification, quality of life, resident population, student, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, England, United Kingdom
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: Mita Mondal
Date Deposited: 20 Nov 2013 09:56 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:13 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/36621 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Hubbard, Philip.

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