The Virtuous Discourses of Private Communities

Kenna, Therese; Dunn, Kevin

doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00210.x

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“…The presence of CCTV is intended to monitor large groups of students and ensure safety on the grounds of the developments (Campus Accommodation Cork, personal communication, October 2010). This degree of monitoring and securing of the developments mirrors broader processes involving the privatisation and securitisation of urban spaces, and indeed these student accommodation complexes constitute a relatively unexplored dimension of the growing phenomenon of gated residential estate development internationally (Glasze et al 2006, Kenna andDunn 2009). Importantly too, this demonstrates that PBSA is designed in such a way that it attempts to regulate urban space and student behaviour.…”

Section: Student Accommodation In Cork: Changing Urban Geographiesmentioning

confidence: 88%

Studentification in Ireland? Analysing the impacts of students and student accommodation on Cork City

Kenna

2011

Irish Geography

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Higher education institutions (HEIs) in Ireland have experienced a considerable growth in student numbers over the last 10 years. This growth in enrolments is predicted to continue for at least the next decade. The geographies of the student population in cities has been a largely overlooked research area in the Irish context, yet the major HEIs in Ireland accepting these growing enrolments are located in urban centres. Further, urban renewal schemes of the late 1990s actively encouraged the development of purpose-built student accommodation in Ireland to relieve the supply pressures being felt in the private rental sector at the time. The Irish government introduced tax incentives to encourage private investment and development in urban areas, with a particular scheme aimed at student accommodation. This paper offers the first analysis of the impacts of student populations and targeted urban renewal schemes for purpose-built student accommodation in Ireland. After a review of the current research field, the paper offers a brief overview of the student population nationally and then examines a number of recent purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) developments in Cork to offer an understanding of the scale and extent of newlyconstructed student accommodation. Finally, the paper offers an analysis of the impacts of PBSA in Cork city.

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Section: Student Accommodation In Cork: Changing Urban Geographiesmentioning

confidence: 88%

Studentification in Ireland? Analysing the impacts of students and student accommodation on Cork City

Kenna

2011

Irish Geography

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“…Commentators have recorded the phenomenon across national contexts, under a diversity of denominations, all with contextual references and an emphasis on historical patterns of enclosures (Low, 2006;Bagaeen and Uduku, 2010): in Western Europe (Le Goix and Callen, 2010;Blandy, 2006;Raposo, 2006), in postcommunist Europe (Stoyanov and Frantz, 2006;Blinnikov et al, 2006;Cséfalvay, 2009), in the Arabian peninsula (Glasze and Alkhayyal, 2002), in Israël (Rosen andRazin, 2009), in China (Webster et al, 2006;Wu, 2005), in Southeast Asia and Australia (Kenna and Dunn, 2009), etc. Main motives have been identified, mainly hypothetical (Kenna and Dunn, 2009), although recent researches bring new empirical results (Cséfalvay and Webster, 2012).…”

Section: The Diffusion Of Gated Communities In Different Contextsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Main motives have been identified, mainly hypothetical (Kenna and Dunn, 2009), although recent researches bring new empirical results (Cséfalvay and Webster, 2012). A first strong thesis implies that crime drives the market, linking security and fear of others -sometimes distinguished from the desire for security of person and property.…”

Section: The Diffusion Of Gated Communities In Different Contextsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Gated Communities

Goix¹

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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Gated communities are enclosed residential subdivisions, privately operated under contractual agreements between homeowners, yielding an interlocking of access control, legal arrangements, and social interactions. Built as morphological enclaves with physical enclosures and security features, they are also designed to exclude others: property rights are implemented in property owners associations, the private governance structures regulating the selection of residents based on age, lifestyle, or social preferences. Gated neighborhoods are therefore viewed as securitization strategies for the subset of the public who seek comfort in social homogeneity.

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“…These residential estates have a private governance structure enabled by legislation that allows private ownership of land and extensive infrastructure, which often includes swimming pools, tennis courts, golf courses, private security, roads and electricity (see Kenna & Dunn, 2009). Private residential estates (PREs) are neighbourhoods where "formerly municipal public services and infrastructure are increasingly privatised and placed under the administration of homeowner and condominium associations" (McKenzie, 2006a, p. 10).…”

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Negotiating Community Title: Residents’ Lived Experiences of Private Governance Arrangements in a Master Planned Estate

Kenna

Stevenson

2010

Urban Policy and Research

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Residents of private residential estates must negotiate the complex of expectations, rights and responsibilities that comes with the community title legislation that defines the management and structure of these neighbourhoods. Of particular importance is the way in which the governance structure of these estates simultaneously supports and threatens their social and financial viability. Drawing on the findings of research conducted in a privately governed master planned residential estate in Sydney, Australia, this article considers the residents' lived experience of the community title scheme. It argues that a perceived lack of transparency in the contractual arrangements which residents enter into when they purchase a property within a private estate directly frames a set of expectations that are at odds with their legislative responsibilities. Also evident is the existence of tensions between the demands placed on residents by the structure of private governance that manages and polices the estate and those of the local government that manages the area within which the estate is located. The article concludes that there is a need for policy attention to be given to the development and management of private residential estates in Australia.

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The Virtuous Discourses of Private Communities

Cited by 17 publications

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Studentification in Ireland? Analysing the impacts of students and student accommodation on Cork City

Studentification in Ireland? Analysing the impacts of students and student accommodation on Cork City

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Negotiating Community Title: Residents’ Lived Experiences of Private Governance Arrangements in a Master Planned Estate

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