Equitable Density: The place for lower-income and disadvantaged households in a dense city: Report 2 The Neighbourhood Scale
Author or co-authors: Hazel Easthope, Laura Crommelin, Laurence Troy
Published: Crommelin, L., Easthope, H. & Tory, L. (2017) Equitable Density: The place for lower income and disadvantaged people in a dense city – the Neighbourhood Scale, Sydney: City Futures Research Centre
Keywords: Equity, Liveability, Planning, Policy, Sustainability,
Summary:
Higher density multi-unit residential developments, such as townhouses and apartment buildings (henceforth ‘higher density housing’), have become increasingly common feature of Australian cities. Shelter NSW engaged the City Futures Research Centre to identify the major challenges confronting lower income and vulnerable residents in higher density housing. In areas with growing quantities of higher density housing (‘the neighbourhood scale’), this densification can strain local services and reshape the area’s socio-economic mix.Equitable Density: The place for lower-income and disadvantaged households in a dense city: Report 1 The Building Scale
Author or co-authors: Hazel Easthope, Laura Crommelin, Laurence Troy
Published: Easthope, H., Troy, L. & Crommelin, L (2017) Equitable Density: The place for lower income and disadvantaged people in a dense city – the Building Scale, Sydney: City Futures Research Centre
Funders: Shelter NSW
Keywords: Equity, Governance, Liveability, Planning, Sociology, Sustainability,
Summary:
Higher density multi-unit residential developments, such as townhouses and apartment buildings (henceforth ‘higher density housing’), have become increasingly common feature of Australian cities. Shelter NSW engaged the City Futures Research Centre to identify the major challenges confronting lower income and vulnerable residents in higher density housing. In higher density buildings (‘the building scale’), factors like proximity between residents, and the need to share responsibility for building upkeep, create a different living experience to that of detached housing.Diversity and participation in private apartment buildings: a review of the literature
Author or co-authors: Hazel Easthope, Caitlin Buckle, Edgar Liu
Published: Liu, E., Easthope, H. Ho, C. & Buckle, C. (2018) ‘Diversity and participation in private apartment buildings: a review of the literature’, Geographical Research, DOI:10.1111/1745-5871.12282
This paper has been peer reviewed
Keywords: Community, Culture, Governance, Liveability,
Summary:
Contemporary urban life has been shaped by two momentous shifts over the twentieth century: increasing global mobility and increasing housing density. Arguably, because global mobility is now so pronounced, engagement and civility require that people are respectfully observant of ethno‐diversity. Yet our review of the existing literature on multicultural encounters and participation in multi‐owned private apartment buildings suggests the need for more research on the intersections among global mobility, housing density, and apartment living. This paper begins to bridge this gap.Inequitable density: the place of lower-income and disadvantaged residents in the compact city
Author or co-authors: Hazel Easthope, Laura Crommelin, Laurence Troy
Published: Crommelin, L., Troy, L. & Easthope, H. (2017) ‘Inequitable Density: The place of lower-income and disadvantaged residents in the compact city’, State of Australian Cities Conference, Adelaide 27-30 November
This paper has been peer reviewed
Funders: Shelter NSW
Keywords: Development, Environment, Equity, Planning,
Summary:
Compact city policies have become planning orthodoxy over the past three decades. But compact city development takes many forms, and the compact city concept often obscures a diverse range of social, economic and environmental outcomes of urban densification. This paper identifies (i) how high density living is different; and (ii) how the current compact city model makes lower-income and disadvantaged residents especially vulnerable.Supporting encounters and casual social ties in large apartment complexes and their surroundings: The role of people, planning, design and management
Author or co-authors: Sian Thompson
Published: Thompson, S. (2019). Supporting encounters and casual social ties in large apartment complexes and their surroundings: The role of people, planning, design and management. (Doctoral thesis, UNSW Sydney).
This paper has been peer reviewed
Funders: Australian University Postgraduate Award
Keywords: Architecture, Building management, Community, Design, Liveability, Planning, Qualitative research/interviews,
Summary:
Driven by policy, demographic and market factors, increasing numbers of people are living in apartment buildings. Especially where populations are heterogeneous and highly mobile, this presents major challenges for social connection, and consequently for social cohesion and individual wellbeing. There is a need to better understand how positive social connection might be facilitated amongst apartment residents, and what role building design and management can play. This thesis presents case study research into relationships in four large Sydney apartment complexes and their surroundings.