Chapter 9 - The rebirth of high-rise living in London: towards a sustainable, inclusive, and liveable urban form

Baxter, Richard; Lees, Loretta

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“…These sorts of judgements are similar to those evoked by Baxter and Lees (2009) and Llewellyn (2003 2004), and judgement is also dissected by Anderson (2005) in his discussion of people deciding what music to listen to. He suggests that music is judged to be good if it augments the listener’s experience: if ‘it gives energy or a boost’ (Anderson 2005, 651).…”

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“…This neglect parallels the uninterest in human subjectivity displayed by much of the literature in science and technology studies (Routledge 2008). Baxter and Lees (2009) have also noted the conceptual uninterest in the feelings of Red Road residents in Jacobs’s project, and they respond with a study describing what residents of high‐rise blocks in London feel about their housing. Their account is mostly phrased in terms of what those residents like and dislike about high‐rise living; like Llewellyn (2003 2004), their account assumes clear, if often emotional, opinions delivered to the interviewers in unambiguous ways by reflective interviewees, which are taken at face value by researchers.…”

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Degen

Basdas³

2010

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

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This paper begins by reviewing a range of recent work by geographers conceptualising buildings less as solid objects and more as performances.Buildings, it is argued, are not given but produced, as various materials are held together in specific assemblages by work of various kinds. This has led to a range of studies looking at the diverse sorts of work that make buildings cohere: the political institutions they are embedded in, the material affordances of their non-human components, the discourses surrounding particular kinds of buildings, and, in particular, the experiencing of buildings by their human inhabitants, users and visitors. However, this experiencing has been poorly theorised. Those geographers inspired by actor network approaches to buildings acknowledge human experiences, but in very limited ways; while those geographers inspired more by affect theory evoke the 'feelings' that buildings may provoke but evacuate human subjectivity from their accounts of buildings' performances. Through a case study of two buildings, this paper argues that both approaches are flawed in their uninterest in the human, and proposes that more attention be paid to (at least) three aspects of human feeling: the feel of buildings, feelings in buildings, and feelings about buildings.

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2010

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“…A couple of (white) residents also complained of ‘cooking smells' entering through windows from flats below whose occupants are part of a diaspora. An embodied vertical encounter with the ‘other' that is comparatively common in London's social housing high‐rises (Baxter, ), this resulted in physical aversion and, therefore, a temporary unmaking of home until the smell dissipates. Not only does this allude to the importance of attending to all the senses in vertical practice, but it again highlights how verticality can be interwoven with wider social and cultural processes, in this case everyday racial encounters and tension.…”

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“…Turning attention to the reasons for high‐rise failure began a long debate that has absorbed representations of the high‐rise (see Hillier, ; Spicker, ) and delayed alternative understandings of the environment. Different accounts have only arisen during the last decade, with Jacobs () paying greater attention to the high‐rise's materiality and others exploring high‐rise living in London (Baxter and Lees, ), Hong Kong and Singapore (Yuen and Yeh, ). Moving beyond the focus on the high‐rise as housing, a small number of studies are beginning to explore the high‐rise as home (e.g.…”

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The High‐Rise Home: Verticality as Practice in London

Baxter

2017

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article investigates the relationship between verticality and home. It develops the idea of ‘verticality as practice'. This appreciates verticality not as something that takes place in three‐dimensional landscapes, but as the outcome of everyday practical activity. Examining a modernist high‐rise estate, the Aylesbury Estate in London, the article identifies and examines a range of vertical practices, illustrating how they are intertwined with home. Vertical practices, such as those associated with the view, help to make a unique and special home, becoming intensely meaningful to residents. However, they also unmake dimensions of home when they interact with the estate's marginality.

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“…To further assess, in part the accuracy of the classification and in part the inadequacy of the currently existing GIS-based products for ISA estimation, the OS MasterMap product was used. Details of this dataset are referred to in the works of [53,54,59]. …”

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Quantifying the Physical Composition of Urban Morphology throughout Wales Based on the Time Series (1989–2011) Analysis of Landsat TM/ETM+ Images and Supporting GIS Data

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Knowledge of impervious surface areas (ISA) and on their changes in magnitude, location, geometry and morphology over time is significant for a range of practical applications and research alike from local to global scales. Despite this, use of Earth Observation (EO) technology in mapping ISAs within some European Union (EU) countries, such as the United Kingdom (UK), is to some extent scarce. In the present study, a combination of methods is proposed for mapping ISA based on freely distributed EO imagery from Landsat TM/ETM+ sensors. The proposed technique combines a traditional classifier and a linear spectral mixture analysis (LSMA) with a series of Landsat TM/ETM+ images to extract ISA. Selected sites located in Wales, UK, are used for demonstrating the capability of the proposed method. The Welsh study areas provided a unique setting in detecting largely dispersed urban morphology within an urban-rural frontier context. In addition, an innovative method for detecting clouds and cloud shadow layers for the full area estimation of ISA is also presented herein. The removal and replacement of clouds and cloud shadows, with underlying materials is further explained. Aerial photography with a spatial resolution of 0.4 m, acquired over the summer period in 2005 was used for validation purposes. Validation of the derived products indicated an overall ISA detection accuracy in OPEN ACCESSRemote Sens. 2014, 6 11732 the order of ~97%. The latter was considered as very satisfactory and at least comparative, if not somehow better, to existing ISA products provided on a national level. The hybrid method for ISA extraction proposed here is important on a local scale in terms of moving forward into a biennial program for the Welsh Government. It offers a much less subjectively static and more objectively dynamic estimation of ISA cover in comparison to existing operational products already available, improving the current estimations of international urbanization and soil sealing. Findings of our study provide important assistance towards the development of relevant EO-based products not only inaugurate to Wales alone, but potentially allowing a cost-effective and consistent long term monitoring of ISA at different scales based on EO technology.

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Chapter 9 - The rebirth of high-rise living in London: towards a sustainable, inclusive, and liveable urban form

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The High‐Rise Home: Verticality as Practice in London

Quantifying the Physical Composition of Urban Morphology throughout Wales Based on the Time Series (1989–2011) Analysis of Landsat TM/ETM+ Images and Supporting GIS Data

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