Five-Star Homes: Hotel Imaginaries and Class Distinction in Australia’s Elite Vertical Urbanism

Dorignon, Louise; Wiesel, Ilan

doi:10.1080/24694452.2022.2047592

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“…Although there are no restrictions on who can live in BTR developments, researchers identify a targeted market. According to the selected studies, the residents of BTR are predominantly young working couples and single workers, with a few retired couples and rarely families [15,16,43,60]. One of the reasons families are not favouring BTR buildings is the higher price of rent for living in a central locality, which families do not value as much [43].…”

Section: Tenant-oriented Btr Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Key Themes of Build-to-Rent: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Achieving Successful Developments through a Systematic Literature Review

Carvalho,

Liu,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Buildings

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There is currently a pressing need for rental housing to be built and the Build-to-Rent (BTR) market is growing to address such housing demands. Existing research focuses on the financial and planning aspects of existing BTR markets. However, more research is needed to clarify the responsibilities and strategies of key stakeholders to achieve success in BTR developments. Moreover, as an emerging topic, identifying the key themes of research and future directions may be beneficial for the body of knowledge. This study critically analyses the existing research published on BTR and aims to identify their key themes and recommend strategies, via a conceptual framework, for achieving success in BTR developments. Systematic literature review methodology was employed to identify recent publications on the topic of BTR, utilising the databases Web of Science and Scopus. A total of 58 research publications from 2013 to 2023 were identified. Using Leximancer software, the identified literature was systematically and thematically analysed. The analysis identified four themes: (1) stakeholders’ influences on the uptake of the BTR model; (2) BTR as a viable model for addressing soaring rental housing demand; (3) tenant-oriented BTR development; and (4) design and construction management of BTR. This research combines these themes into a conceptual framework, provides useful recommendations to facilitate the implementation of BTR developments, and identifies future research directions for this topic.

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Section: Tenant-oriented Btr Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Key Themes of Build-to-Rent: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Achieving Successful Developments through a Systematic Literature Review

Carvalho,

Liu,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Buildings

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“…Thirdly, luxified skies, as indicated through the ‘luxury’ framing, have been understood as a new and heightened means to flaunt power, prestige and status. Working beyond simply the financial calculus of vertical asset-building, penthouse suites, private amenities and privileged views across the city have been used to present and perform individual social superiority and class distinction (Dorignon and Wiesel, 2022). Meanwhile spectacular skylines and iconic architecture have been deployed to convey and assert the internationally competitive aspirations of metropolitan and national state actors (Acuto, 2010; Kaika, 2010).…”

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Vertical Horizons: Dealing with luxury urban skies

Harris,

Wolseley

2023

Urban Studies

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There has been a conspicuous growth in the height and extent of luxury urban development in the 21st century. This has been accompanied by important critical analyses exploring how this upward construction has created new vertical social divides and landscapes of power. This article argues, however, that there are spatial and methodological limitations to the way luxury urban skies have tended to be framed and pursued. Through a focus on the decisions taken in producing the 2017 meditative film Vertical Horizons by Tom Wolseley, the paper offers an expanded agenda for engagements with elite vertical development. This film juxtaposes views of London and Western Europe’s tallest skyscraper, the Shard, from different vantage points, with contrasting narratives about the building. Vertical Horizons seeks to use its focus on the Shard to open up more imaginative experiments with high-rise landscapes, and better recognition of the potential complicities in responses to the gleaming façades of contemporary urbanisation. The paper posits that more multi-sited, creative and reflective approaches, such as those pursued in Vertical Horizons, are required in efforts at levelling with the social and symbolic power of urban vertical luxification.

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