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dc.contributor.authorTroiani, Ien
dc.contributor.authorCarless, Ten
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-05T13:14:39Z
dc.date.available2021-08-05T13:14:39Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-26en
dc.identifier.issn2050-9006en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/17405
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<jats:p>The shift in focus in UK higher education since Thatcherism from the production of knowledge for civic betterment to the production and consumption of knowledge by the university for revenue generation can be read through the social rearrangement of space in the university town or city. A key spatial reconfiguration emerging from the shift in economic conditions is the collapse of the modern university as a singular, ideological construct. Like ‘the city’ before it, the modern university has, at its interior, been reformed into a newly defined, fragmented public–private social space, and, at its exterior, into a devourer of the space of the local community. This article showcases excerpts from a film made by the authors entitled <jats:italic>The Death and Life of UK Universities</jats:italic> – a title inspired by Jane Jacobs’s critique of great American cities. Our film is a cinematic database survey of the changing space of all British universities which considers this systematic spatial reprogramming of space within the city. The two-year research project is an audio-visual critique of the way in which neoliberalism, corporatization and commercial interests have co-opted the space of the British university. Referencing the films of Charlie Chaplin and Gordon Matta-Clark and the writings of Henri Lefebvre, the film focuses on university cities, critically observing the rise of university marketing material and the consumption of the city and of local community life for university student accommodation. We ask: How are UK universities being spatially reconfigured and what are the consequences?</jats:p>

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dc.publisherUCL Pressen
dc.titleThe Death and Life of UK Universities and the Cultural Spaces They Consumeen
dc.typeJournal Article
plymouth.issue1en
plymouth.volume19en
plymouth.journalArchitecture_MPSen
dc.identifier.doi10.14324/111.444.amps.2021v19i1.002en
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA/UoA13 Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA/UoA13 Architecture, Built Environment and Planning/UoA13 Architecture, Built Environment and Planning MANUAL
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dcterms.dateAccepted2020-08-12en
dc.rights.embargodate2021-08-11en
dc.identifier.eissn2050-9006en
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rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.14324/111.444.amps.2021v19i1.002en
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2021-02-26en
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen


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