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>Have other crit-geog members, perhaps those in other countries, also seen the
>'Headingley' problem? We dont hear much in the UK about, say, USA
>studentification, although there was an interesting story about California
>students
>subverting an environmental directive that meant only cars with 2 or more
>cooupants
>could use certain traffic lanes. The enterprising California students then
>got free lifts, or even charged motorists for the privelige of carrying
>them, in
>the rush hour so as to get into that multi-occuopancy lane.
I haven't heard of that California carpooling story.
>Has anyone else from other universities come across this 'student/community'
>tension, and how does Oxbridge avoid it, or doesnt it? Any solutions in other
>countries, please?
In most university towns in the US, there is some degree of tension between
the locals and the student population. Landlords charge high rents for
shabby housing in the student ghettos, and as the university population
expands more housing is drawn into the student market displacing
non-student/permanent renting residents. This in turn exacerbates a
tension between non-local students and local non-students. In larger
cities a additional dynamics impinge on this tendency, though even at UCLA
you can observe a student ghetto (in relative terms compared to the rest of
Westwood and Bel-Air) on the south side of campus.
jeff
>Hillary Shaw, School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
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