Interim Planning Guidance on Purpose Built Student Housing Newcastle, UK Nov 2007
This report deals with planning guidance for purpose built student housing,focusing on "promoting and enabling the the development of a range of good quality purpose built student housing schemes in appropriate, sustainable locations." An exerpt deals with the Pros and cons of this type of housing, as well as the impact on communities.(Go to exerpt)
Building Balanced Communities Nottingham City Council, 2007 UK This Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) sets out Nottingham City Councils approach to student housing provision on sites allocated in the Local Plan and on unallocated windfall sites, it also:
-encourages the provision of purpose built and managed student accommodation in appropriate locations -aims to improve the physical quality of accommodation for students -restricts the provision of further student housing (where the City Council is able to exercise control) within areas of recognised over-concentration of students, where the creation and maintenance of balanced communities is threatened.
Off Campus Capacity Analysis Ohio University Jan 2007, USA
In December of 2006, Ohio University brought to closure a comprehensive campus master planning effort. This master planning tool kit is compromised of four integral parts, one of these being the Off-Campus Capacity Analysis. This report provides the university and City of Athens with a tool to determine the level of housing development needed to meet Ohio University's enrollment targets. As well, determining the effects of on-campus housing developments and enrollment growth on the City's housing stock. The study indicated off-campus housing is strained with high demand, limited supply and poor quality.
The off-campus housing situation rests mainly between Athens and the university, with each body having their own development plan. To provide adequate housing to support university enrollment, the study found that coordination between the city and university is crucial.
UBC/UN-Habitat Archives Nov 2007 CAN The Habitat Archives, a partenrship between UBC and the UN, brings together tested urban knowledge and practical experience in a online format that is easily accessible around the world. Rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, economies and the environment is one of the most pressing issues facing the world today, says UBC President Stephen J. Toope.Experience has shown that we know how to improve livability and economic viability in Canadas rapidly expanding communities. However, that knowledge is often not readily available at the point of its application or implementation. The inventory will encompass print and electronic media as well as accumulated memorabilia of social, cultural and economic value. Rapid access to relevant knowledge will directly improve land-use and development practices for the full range of the city building professions locally and regionally. The Habitat Archives will continue to be augmented by further deposits of documented experience within Canada and through UN global sources.
University of Cincinnati
2006
The University commissioned a study on university/community joint planning, to help guide it in its work to reinvigorate its own campus neighborhood. In order to learn from peer urban/metropolitan universities engaged in similar efforts, UC commissioned what is believed to be the first broad attempt to grade such efforts throughout the United States and Canada. The report includes 21 case studies detailing university efforts, as well as a detailed report card of 11 of those universities across 16 criteria,
