Living alone together in Tokyo <i>share houses</i>

Druţǎ, Oana; Ronald, Richard

doi:10.1080/14649365.2020.1744704

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“…In addition to the distinct and tangible practical challenges of making oneself at home in high‐rise units, these men experience sometimes overwhelming feelings that have important, yet unrecognised, negative implications for their mental well‐being. While living alone is not always the configuration chosen or imposed on un‐partnered individuals in cities (Druta & Ronald, 2020; Maalsen, 2019), the topic of loneliness and living alone in urban apartments should not be overlooked in concerns for other high‐rise demographics and their compelling novelty, such as families.…”

Section: Refining Vertical Urbanism Through Disorientationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disorientation in the unmaking of high‐rise homes

Dorignon

Nethercote

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper expands our understanding of vertical urbanism, and specifically the experience of home in high-rise housing, by assessing and mobilising a "disorientated geographies" approach. It follows Bissell and Gorman-Murray's recent call for researchers to better account for the logics of disconnection and undoing in geographical inquiry. Building on their exploration of "disorientated geographies," this paper examines the lived experience of three single men living in high-rise housing to revisit the high-rise as home. It aims to advance prevailing understandings of urban vertical living and more specifically of the processes through which these homes are made and unmade. Drawing on in-depth interviews with apartment dwellers in new high-rise housing in London and Melbourne, we explore residents' loss of orienting relations through their feelings of frustration, restlessness, and disappointment. We consider how these emotional states contribute to destabilise their homes as these three men struggle to comprehend and orient themselves within the sociospatial environment of the high-rise, and specifically an environment compromised by design and build quality issues. We argue that disorientation provides a useful but undervalued vantage point from which to understand the making and unmaking of vertical homes. In so doing, we foreground and sharpen understandings of the role of verticality, in particular, in these processes of home-unmaking. The contribution of the paper is two-fold. Conceptually, it both expands the application of disorientated geographies into a novel urban setting and broadens its frames of reference by examining other bodily experiences and emotions. Empirically, we advance understandings of the lived experience of vertical urbanisms by drawing new and productive links between verticality and disorientation that move us beyond consideration of purely physiological responses, such as vertigo or dizziness, to high-rise living, to better account for a fuller range of bodily, emotional, and social practices.

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Section: Refining Vertical Urbanism Through Disorientationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disorientation in the unmaking of high‐rise homes

Dorignon

Nethercote

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Huisman (2016a) has introduced the notion of 'permanent temporariness' to refer to this emerging risk in the Netherlands. Young professionals are also one of the main target demographics for the shared-housing market (Bergan et al, 2020;Druta & Ronald, 2020;Heath & Kenyon, 2001;Landriscina, 2018;D. P. Smith & Hubbard, 2014).…”

Section: Students and Young Professionals Shifting From 'Generation mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This research addresses a new form of shared housing, the shared housing market, that is, largescale developments delivering a substantial number of small housing units (up to 900 units starting from 25m 2 in this study), equipped with shared spaces and services (e.g., libraries, working spaces) for the residents. This emerging housing segment has been increasingly supported by local governments and generally targets students (e.g., Thomsen, 2007) and 'young professionals' (Druta & Ronald, 2020;Kemp, 2011). The latter are young (commonly defined as aged 20 to 34), often single and highly-educated adults, who are in the early stages of their careers and are expected to be flexible and mobile for their work (Bergan, Gorman-Murray, & Power, 2020;Heath & Kenyon, 2001).…”

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Shared housing for students and young professionals: evolution of a market in need of regulation

Uyttebrouck

Bueren

Teller

2020

J Hous and the Built Environ

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This research addresses the shared housing market, that is, large-scale developments targeting students and 'young professionals', equipped with shared spaces and services for the residents. This housing segment has emerged in response to young adults' demand for flexible and affordable housing. It has developed in cities that concentrate students and young single professionals, plan densification strategies and face housing commodification. We specifically explore the production side of this market, through the comparison of two projects in Amsterdam. Our objective is to understand the institutional context in which these projects were developed and their outcomes. Consequently, the research questions are: which actors develop these projects, what instruments do they use, and what are the outcomes in a commodifying housing market? From our analysis, the actors need to collaborate on shared housing developments and receive support from local governments, through the strategic use of planning instruments and tenure regulations. However, the shared facilities seem to merely serve to commercialize small housing production, while housing affordability and accessibility are threatened. We, thus, recommend local and national authorities to regulate the provision of shared spaces and suggest further research on the effects of the shared housing market in cities facing housing commodification.

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“…These are cases of private rental housing that secure the convenience of transportation and living space in metropolitan areas where the burden of housing costs is high. Since the 2000s, private rental housing has spread mainly among young adults (Hirayama and Ronald, 2007 ; Holton, 2016 ; Druta and Ronald, 2020 ; Kim et al, 2020 ). There is still controversy over whether a shared house is a reasonable or inevitable option as a housing choice (Kenyon, 1999 ; Kenyon and Heath, 2001 ).…”

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Living Place Matters: The Duplicity of Shared Housing in the Young Adults of South Korea

Byun

Shon

2022

Front. Psychol.

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This study focus on the phenomenon of the preference for co-living among young adults that has manifested in South Korea. The study examines life in a shared house as a living place, which is the representative form of co-living that the younger adults in South Korea have been choosing. The objective of the study is to examine shared housing as living place matters and their possibility of being a home and house for the young generation. The study procedures included reviewing place attachment theory, analyzing the operational structure of shared houses, and interviewing residents to discuss the place attachment of the residential environment in shared houses. The young adult generation who chose to share a house display indecision on the issue of residential choices and behavior in terms of spatial possession. The results are as follows. Although co-living is a realistic residential choice for the reduction of residential costs, the majority of young adults experientially highlight the values of co-living rather than acknowledge the real reasons behind their choices. Such results signify that they recognize such limited residential choices as a means of temporary residence, not rooted to a living place, rather than an ordinal difference between the best and the second best, and ultimately the need to further consider the issues of continuous life and lifestyle on the foundation of the perspective of the universal life cycle of the young adult generation.

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Living alone together in Tokyo share houses

Cited by 30 publications

References 41 publications

Disorientation in the unmaking of high‐rise homes

Disorientation in the unmaking of high‐rise homes

Shared housing for students and young professionals: evolution of a market in need of regulation

Living Place Matters: The Duplicity of Shared Housing in the Young Adults of South Korea

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