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Studentscapes, student bubbles, and studentification: What do student geographies of housing tell us about urban space? (Nick Revington, INRS-Urbanisation, Culture et Soci茅t茅)

Friday, February 28, 2025 12:00to13:00
Burnside Hall Room 426, 805 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, CA

Abstract:聽As private university residences have emerged as a new frontier of investment by sophisticated financial actors, international students have also become scapegoats of Canada鈥檚 housing affordability crisis, and scholarship increasingly describes purportedly global processes of 鈥渟tudentification,鈥 remaking some neighbourhoods as isolated 鈥渂ubbles鈥 or enclaves of student life. Drawing on recent and ongoing research in Montreal and elsewhere, I argue that student housing presents a valuable portal through which to understand broader urban dynamics. These dynamics include reconfigurations of land rents and the gendering and 鈥済enerationing鈥 of urban space, touching students and non-students alike.

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