Pathways and Processes: Reviewing the Role of Young Adults in Urban Structure
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Date
2017-03-31
Authors
Revington, Nicholas
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Taylor and Francis
Abstract
Challenges arising from changing demographics, expensive housing, and precarious labor have prompted recent interest in the residential geographies of young adults. Yet, despite attention to young adults' diverse housing pathways, I argue that greater focus is needed on the place-based and spatial underpinnings and effects of particular housing pathways: Connections to urban processes of “youthification”—the concentration of young adults in dense neighborhoods—and “studentification”—whereby an area becomes dominated by university students—remain underdeveloped, as do linkages between these phenomena and gentrification. I explore these connections through a critical review of extant literature to show that the enactment of some pathways is associated with particular urban processes, which might foreclose certain pathways for other individuals. Finally, I identify three crucial areas of inquiry: (1) how youthification, studentification, and gentrification interact; (2) how these processes shape and are shaped by diverging individual housing pathways; and (3) how differences among young adults such as race, ethnicity, and gender intersect with age in the course of these processes.
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Professional Geographer on January 2, 2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00330124.2017.1288574
Keywords
Gentrification, Housing pathways, Studentification, Young adults, Youthification