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Geographies of Studentification and Purpose-Built Student Accommodation

Leading Separate Lives

Bibliographic Data

ID4138893
AuthorsP Hubbard (0000-0001-7504-5471, Loughborough University, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume41
Issue8
Pages1903-1923
Publication date2009-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a4149
OpenAlexW2161481501
LanguageEN
Citations received115
References cited29

Off-campus student accommodation in the form of shared rental housing has become increasingly significant in the UK, with studies suggesting that this is having important consequences for housing markets in university towns. However, the continuing expansion of higher education, the increased involvement of private investment capital, and changing student demands are seen to be encouraging a move away from houses in multiple occupation towards purpose-built accommodation. Drawing on housing surveys and interviews conducted with current students in Loughborough (in the English East Midlands), I conclude that such purpose-built developments are implicated in processes of urban gentrification, having potentially major consequences for studentification and community cohesion in British cities

Accommodation · Built environment · Civil engineering · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Gentrification · Geography · Political science · Renting · Sociology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Educational Environments and Student Outcomes · Engineering · Place Attachment and Urban Studies · Psychology

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