Hacking London’s demolition decisions

Crawford, Kate; Bell, Sarah; Davies, Felicity; Johnson, Charlotte; Joo, Sunyoung; Hayward, Sharon; Lee, Richard

doi:10.5040/9781350986251.ch-008

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“…Long-standing challenges in regeneration include mixed health and sustainability outcomes (Crawford et al, 2014; Power, 2008; Thomson et al, 2009), local tensions (Slawinski et al, 2021), and risks of gentrification and displacement (Arthurson et al, 2015; McCartney et al, 2017). These challenges exemplify risks of mission drift, where organizations with complex institutions shift away from their original social missions (Ebrahim et al, 2014; Ometto et al, 2019).…”

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Sustaining Attention to Sustainability, Health, and Well-Being in Urban Regeneration

Zhou,

Warwick,

Ucci

et al. 2024

Organization & Environment

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In urban regeneration projects, balancing environmental, social, and economic aspects is crucial but challenging, often leading to mission drift when team focus deviates from the original goals. Through a case study of regeneration projects at a large U.K. housing association, we explore decision makers’ attention to sustainability, health, and well-being as core elements of social mission. We combined qualitative analysis with an examination of structural complexities and system behaviors, adopting a systems thinking perspective. Analysis of attention patterns in regeneration meetings reveals that attention to the social missions was not sustained, with evident attention shifts toward financial costs and risks. Also, sustainability is prioritized less than health and well-being topics. We use a causal loop diagram to describe the underlying mechanisms that drive attention dynamics, highlighting how the structural complexities can undermine sustainable development in regeneration. Finally, we propose strategies to sustain attention toward sustainability, health, and well-being in regeneration.

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Sustaining Attention to Sustainability, Health, and Well-Being in Urban Regeneration

Zhou,

Warwick,

Ucci

et al. 2024

Organization & Environment

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“…Residents and communities are often excluded from decisions about demolition or refurbishment of housing. These decisions are typically justified in complex economic and technical terms, using language, data and arguments that are hard to access without professional training and expertise (Crawford et al, 2016). The Demolition or Refurbishment project aimed to provide social housing communities with technical information about the impacts and benefits of different options for estate regeneration, in formats that could be clearly understood and communicated.…”

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“…There was a key issue around accessibility: relevant documents were not always in the public domain, and emerging evidence appears to be or is categorised as anecdotal. There also seemed to be a tendency to publish and republish simple, convenient numbers as universal rules of thumb when the original source research was out of date or based on a very few or specific cases that were hard to disentangle or generalise about (Crawford et al, 2016). Scrutiny of the evidence, and discussion of the limitations of the studies, was a key step to ensure transparency.…”

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Co-designing Infrastructures

Bell¹,

Johnson²,

Austen³

et al. 2023

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This series contributes to the urgent need for creativity and rigour in producing and sharing knowledge at the interface of urban communities and universities to support more sustainable, just and resilient cities. It aims to amplify community voices in scholarly publishing about the built environment, and encourages different models of authorship to reflect research and pedagogy that is co-produced with urban communities. It includes work that engages with the theory and practice of community engagement in processes and structures of city-making. The series will reflect diverse urban communities in its authorship, topics and geographical range.Engaging Communities in City-making aims to become a central hub for investigation into how disciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity can enable schools, teacher trainers and learners to address the challenges of the twenty-first century in knowledgeable and critically informed ways. A focus on social justice is a key driver. The series explores questions about the powers of knowledge, relationships between the distribution of knowledge and knowledge resources in society, and matters of social justice and democratisation. It is committed to the proposition that the answers to questions about knowledge require new thinking and innovation, that they are open questions with answers that are not already known and which are likely to entail significant social and institutional change to make the powers of knowledge and of knowing equally available to all.

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“…Decarbonising the housing stock is one of the largest challenges in the built environment today, which is getting the attention not only from policymakers but also from social housing associations and other institutional real estate owners, financial organisations and users. Several studies (BPIE, 2011, 2013; IEAAnnex56, 2012; Crawford et al , 2014) have reported that great potential for energy savings, improved health and comfort of the occupants’, elimination of fuel poverty and job creation lay in the technical upgrade of the existing buildings stock. In this context and in line with the international Paris-Climate-Change-Conference 2015, municipalities and housing associations in the Netherlands (AEDES, 2018) have embraced this challenge with the ambitions to become carbon neutral in 2050.…”

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The relation of energy efficiency upgrades and cost of living, investigated in two cases of multi-residential buildings in the Netherlands

Konstantinou

Jonge

Oorschot

et al. 2019

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Purpose Decarbonising the housing stock is one of the largest challenges in the built environment today, which is getting the attention not only from policymakers but also from social housing corporations, financial organisations and users. In line with the international Paris-Climate-Change-Conference 2015, Dutch cities and housing associations have embraced this challenge with the ambitions to become carbon neutral in 2050. To reach such goals, both the rate and depth of renovation need to increase. Several technical solutions to eliminate the energy demand in dwelling have been developed and tested. Nevertheless, the intake rate of deep retrofitting is low. Despite recent developments, there are still significant barriers related to financing, lack of information and user acceptance. To address those barriers, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between energy efficiency upgrades and the cost of living. Design/methodology/approach Focusing on walk-up apartments in the Netherlands, a framework of refurbishment measures that affect the energy efficiency was identified, and their performance was calculated. Furthermore, the rental price adjustment was estimated, taking into account the refurbishment investment and the exploitation cost of the renovated dwellings. Findings The comparison of the energy use and rental price for the different options demonstrated how the different renovation measures affect the energy cost, the energy use, rent and cost of living. The tenants are more likely to accept the solutions that take into account the total cost of living and sustainability benefits. The study gives a holistic standpoint to the issue of energy upgrades, by quantifying the effect of the potential measures for the whole exploitation period. It has shown the potential of the different interventions to improve the performance and living conditions, without necessarily increasing the total cost of living. Practical implications Such results aim at supporting the decision making between the stakeholders, primarily housing associations and tenants. Originality/value The importance of the study is that it gives a holistic standpoint to the issue of energy upgrades, by quantifying the effect of the potential measures for the whole exploitation period. The cost, as a key, if not the more most decisive, issue, is put into perspective in relation to the benefit, in order to give a direction to the renovation design and arguments for the stakeholders’ dialogue. The approach of the study goes beyond cost-optimality of measures and investigated the relation between energy upgrades and cost, as a way to evaluate design variation and address the lack of information barrier in renovations. Moreover, it also proves that deep renovation is feasible without increasing in the total cost of living, which is a principal argument to promote renovations.

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Hacking London’s demolition decisions

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Sustaining Attention to Sustainability, Health, and Well-Being in Urban Regeneration

Sustaining Attention to Sustainability, Health, and Well-Being in Urban Regeneration

Co-designing Infrastructures

The relation of energy efficiency upgrades and cost of living, investigated in two cases of multi-residential buildings in the Netherlands

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