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New-build Studentification: A Panacea for Balanced Communities?

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  • Joanna Sage
  • Darren Smith
  • Philip Hubbard

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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.

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  • Joanna Sage & Darren Smith & Philip Hubbard, 2013. "New-build Studentification: A Panacea for Balanced Communities?," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 50(13), pages 2623-2641, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:50:y:2013:i:13:p:2623-2641
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098013477694
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