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ItemThe unintended segregation of transnational students in central Melbourne(PION LTD, 2009-08)Links between the rapid growth of tertiary students resident in a city and that city's gentrification have recently been proposed in a UK-based literature about ‘studentification’. These analyses frame student subjectivity, identity, and experience in particular ways—students are agents of urban change, propelling shifts in neighbourhood housing and entertainment submarkets in a manner that local host communities often resent. Consideration of the experiences of the students themselves, through the effects of the host society and the city on them, is less common. Based on research conducted in Melbourne, we focus on transnational students, who are seen as consumers for a major export industry. We use the voices of transnational students recently arrived in the city to make the claim that an unintended sociospatial segregation of these students is occurring, largely driven by institutional practices. Students' agency is fundamentally affected by their institutional context, which determines the conditions of their entry to Australia and to university there, their housing, and, to a remarkable degree, their opportunities for social interaction.
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ItemIs high-rise housing innovative? Developers' contradictory narratives of high-rise housing in Melbourne(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2007-03)The appearance in inner Melbourne in the past decade of high-rise residential buildings for middle- and upper-income households has been contrasted with previous periods when such buildings were for public housing tenants. Drawing on the narratives of high-rise developers and planners about these new buildings, the paper demonstrates an inconsistency between their claims that the housing is socially innovative and their expectations that the choices of housing consumers to live in high-rise housing will conform to longstanding stereotypes. Whilst they claim to be identifying a new group of housing consumers—'empty nesters'-and to be satisfying their needs, in fact the high-rise developers' views of this group are premised on conventional and taken-for-granted views of the relationship between certain life-stages and certain housing forms.
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ItemNarratives of high-rise housing: placing the ethnicized newcomer in inner Melbourne(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2005-04)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableSpatial Difference and Public Policy(University of New South Wales Press, 2005)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableSpace, gender and institutions in processes creating difference(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2007-02)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAt home with diversity in medium-density housing(Informa UK Limited, 2007-10-17)