How Willing Are We to Live in Tall(er) Housing?

Yuen, Belinda; Yeh, Ago; Appold, Stephen J.; Earl, George; Ting, John; Kwee, Lanny Kurnianingrum

doi:10.1142/9789812701480_0159

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“…Elsewhere in Asia, Hong Kong, and Singapore, high-rise public housing developments have received high residential satisfaction (Kultermann, 1989;Rooney, 2003;Yuen, Yeh, Appold, Earl, Ting & Kwee, 2006). Western cities that once abandoned high-rise are returning to this construction and tall housing is being built in cities like Melbourne and London (Abel, 2003;Tibbits, 1988).…”

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The New Upper-Middle Class Residential Experience: A Case Study of Apartment Flats in Jordan using the Logics of Burden, Hillier and Hanson

Malhis

2008

Architectural Science Review

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The city of Amman has embarked on development at every scale and the private housing market has become a strong industry. Although apartment living was not popular to the upper-middle class when it was first introduced during the 1970s, the sharp increase in the price of land together with other socio-economic factors made the flat the only possible choice to a large segment of Amman's population. This research aims to provide an understanding of this phenomenon. It questioned if the relentless invasion of new forms of housing is echoed by shifts in the traditional logic of space. The research concentrated on the architecture of apartment buildings built between 1975-2007, and explored the extent to which the spatial properties of the apartments are generic. This paper explores the logic of Amman's apartments and managed to put the recent residential experience into a spatially typed format by relating to Burden's elements for comprehending design forms, and by using Hillier and Hanson's syntactic methods of spatial analysis Although luxury flat living is relatively a new phenomenon in Amman, it is not in other parts of the world. With the growing number of people living in urban areas, the literature has shown that the unfolding trend is towards a more urbanstyle development with apartment buildings of different heights and trends included as an inevitable housing solution. Several European and Asian cities including London, Lahore, Seoul, Shanghai, Tehran, and other cities in the developing world are reconsidering vertical housing as part of their urban

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