Housing and health: a time for action

Baker, Emma; Bentley, Rebecca

doi:10.1080/19491247.2023.2204650

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“…High-rise materialities and infrastructures have a role to play in shaping these affective atmospheres. As Power (2015) and Kerr et al (2018) argue in relation to sound, lift shafts, stairs, ducts, floors and wall cavities can exaggerate and exacerbate tensions in apartment living, and have a bearing on dwelling, governance and health (Baker and Bentley, 2023). In foregrounding the multi-sensual experiences of residents, our research adds thermal, insect and particulate matters to these existing analyses, linking evolving ecological processes to health, housing and home.…”

Section: Building Infrastructures and The Mediation Of Air In High-ri...mentioning

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Assembling high-rise: The uneven agencies of air in suburban densification in the Anthropocene

Cook,

Kerr

2023

Urban Studies

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the surface the critical qualities of air – airflow, ventilation, particulates etc. – in relation to the well-being of people living in high-rise. Engineering and architectural research has burgeoned in response. However, in focusing on models of airflow, ventilation and particulates as discrete variables, engineering and architectural discourse fails to capture the diverse ways that air enters into and shapes the everyday lived experience of high-rise dwelling. Drawing on research in Sydney’s Southwestern suburbs, we reveal high-rise as an assemblage that links apartment dwelling with air, via car-dependent suburbanisation, pollution and climate-change induced temperature extremes in the Anthropocene. In addition to viruses, air teems with carbon, insects, noise and pollutants, while viscerally mediating human encounters with fluctuating temperatures. Multiple relations between people, buildings and air unfold simultaneously, confounding attempts to account for air’s elemental milieu through single variables like greenhouse gas or COVID-19. While embedded in relations of power, high-rise assemblages unleash vernacular adaptation that through low-tech and low-cost technologies work to connect suburban high-rise with evolving ecological systems. Recognising the pharmacological quality of air, as both ‘poison’ and ‘cure’, we contrast models of high-rise as encapsulated environments with resident (and other) experiments that orient high-rise to the elements, and the interlinked challenges of urban living in the Anthropocene.

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Section: Building Infrastructures and The Mediation Of Air In High-ri...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Assembling high-rise: The uneven agencies of air in suburban densification in the Anthropocene

Cook,

Kerr

2023

Urban Studies

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‘I think life changed for everybody from the first lockdown’: public housing tenants’ experiences of COVID-19 public health and social measures in Aotearoa New Zealand

Dohig,

O’Sullivan,

Telfar-Barnard

et al. 2024

International Journal of Housing Policy

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Gender Disparity and Housing Development: Examining Socioeconomic Barriers and Policy Solutions in Nigeria

Makinde,

Makinde

2024

JCUA

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Gender disparity (GD) significantly impacts housing development, especially in developing countries like Nigeria, where socioeconomic and cultural barriers constrain equitable housing access. This study investigates the features and effects of GD on housing development in Iwo Central Local Government Area, Osun State, Nigeria. Using a mixed-method approach, data were collected from 328 respondents through questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, including indices and ANOVA. Key findings highlight societal mindsets as the most influential feature of GD, followed by lack of bodily autonomy and employment equality, with respective relative significance indices (RSIs) of 4.23, 4.06, and 4.00. Denied access to housing and homelessness emerged as the most critical effects of GD, with effects indices (EGDIs) of 4.36 and 4.31. Regression analysis revealed a significant relationship between GD characteristics and housing development (F = 99.964, p = 0.04), emphasizing the pervasive impact of GD on housing equity. The study concludes that GD restricts women's access to adequate housing, perpetuating socioeconomic inequalities. Recommendations include promoting gender-responsive housing policies, enhancing women's access to affordable housing finance, and integrating gender equity into urban planning and housing design. Addressing GD is crucial for fostering inclusive, equitable, and sustainable housing development in Nigeria.

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Housing and health: a time for action

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Assembling high-rise: The uneven agencies of air in suburban densification in the Anthropocene

Assembling high-rise: The uneven agencies of air in suburban densification in the Anthropocene

‘I think life changed for everybody from the first lockdown’: public housing tenants’ experiences of COVID-19 public health and social measures in Aotearoa New Zealand

Gender Disparity and Housing Development: Examining Socioeconomic Barriers and Policy Solutions in Nigeria

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