Palaiologou, G;
Kostourou, F;
(2016)
Long-term challenges in urban housing: in the search for intersections between design and policy regulations.
In: Day, K, (ed.)
AMPS Proceedings Series 7. Future Housing: Global Cities and regional Problems.
(pp. pp. 39-58).
AMPS: Swinburne University, Melbourne.
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Abstract
Current discussions on urban housing confirm the central role of design in dealing with the rapidly increasing complexities of urban challenges. Nonetheless, design often remains detached from decision-making at the level of building regulations and urban policies. Situated around the debate of greater socio-spatial sustainability, this paper aims to an integrated understanding of housing performance devising an analytical discussion of both the design and the policy-making approaches. To explore the interplay of design with policy and regulations, the paper looks at historical housing transformations in different contexts. It focuses on those morphological, spatial and legal affordances that, once embedded into the design of urban housing, can contribute to its sustainability over time. In response to numerous studies of disurbanism and failures of housing interventions in the cities, this paper examines in turn long-standing housing schemes, which remain relevant in space and time. The selected case studies cover a range of different urban housing types from highly mixed-use to pure residential: originally planned row housing in West Village, Manhattan, NYC and Islington, London, UK, and low-rise mass housing in Cité Ouvrière, Mulhouse, France. Comparative results indicate the significance of the following contributing factors to those settlements’ long-term viability: the flexibility of both regulations and building morphology (buildings, plots and blocks) at the various scales of the built environment; the combination of policies and management by various stakeholders at different levels; and the inherent spatio-temporal relation of the schemes with the urban whole. Overall, the paper seeks to inform the design of future housing through an evidence-based understanding of the impact of form and policies in housing longevity. Results suggest that there are certain, cross-cultural, spatial properties acting as shared factors between the practice of architectural design and urban housing governance.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Long-term challenges in urban housing: in the search for intersections between design and policy regulations |
| Event: | AMPS: Future Housing: Global Cities and regional Problems |
| Location: | Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia |
| Dates: | 09 June 2016 - 10 June 2016 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://architecturemps.com/proceedings/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | AMPS is an open access platform which means that content is available without charge to the user or his/her institution for individual research purposes. Users must fully cite and reference the source of the material accessed and used under this agreement as indicated above. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1535181 |
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