Introduction: High-Rise Living in Asian Cities

Yeh, Ago; Yuen, Belinda

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9738-5_1

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“…This should also improve the daylight use efficiency through light-colored interiors that reflect light from windows or skylight (IEQ22). This is consistent with prior studies that conclude that internal reflectance of materials and finishes affect daylighting [36]. It might be necessary to avoid using materials of high surface reflectance (IEQ24).…”

Section: Indoor Environmental Qualitysupporting

confidence: 81%

Exploring Socio-Technical Features of Green Interior Design of Residential Buildings: Indicators, Interdependence and Embeddedness

Ning

Yang

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:This research aims to develop indicators for assessing green interior design of new residential buildings in China, grounded in the socio-technical systems approach. The research was carried out through a critical literature review and two focus group studies. The results show that the boundaries of green interior design were identified with respect to three dimensions, namely performance, methodology and stakeholders. The socio-technical systems approach argues for the recognition of the interdependence between the systems elements and the feature of embeddedness. The interdependence of the systems elements exists within each of these three dimensions and across them. It is also found that the socio-technical systems of green interior design are embedded in the social, regulatory and geographic context. Taking interior design of residential buildings as the empirical setting, this study contributes to the literature of green building assessment by presenting a socio-technical systems approach.

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Section: Indoor Environmental Qualitysupporting

confidence: 81%

Exploring Socio-Technical Features of Green Interior Design of Residential Buildings: Indicators, Interdependence and Embeddedness

Ning

Yang

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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“…Easthope and Tice, 2011;Gleeson and Sipe, 2006;Woolcock et al, 2010), little is known about vertical family living. Much of the international housing literature on families focuses on Asian cities with collective traditions for high-density living, such as Hong Kong and Singapore, where the option for, and the ideology of, suburban family life are neither comparatively practicable nor entrenched (Appold and Yuen, 2007;Karsten, 2015;Yeh and Yuen, 2011). Conversely, the sample selection effects of the urban poor in high-rise social housing hamper generalizability from potentially relevant research (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ordinary vertical urbanisms: City apartments and the everyday geographies of high-rise families

Nethercote

Horne

2016

Environ Plan A

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In many new world cities, inner city apartment development proceeds at unprecedented rates. In dominant urban planning and property development discourses, new inner city dwellers are consumption-orientated young professionals and “empty nesters”—all similarly childless. Nonetheless, families make their homes in city apartments, and their experiences are not well understood. Meanwhile, within urban and political geography, new interest in verticality has directed attention to the changing urban topography and volumetric profile of cities. However, a topographic bias occludes the mundane, intensive relations that enervate these everyday lived spaces (i.e. ordinary topologies), while a fascination with spectacular urbanisms and cities in conflict neglects other “ordinary” vertical urbanisms. Drawing on a qualitative study of high-rise families in inner city Melbourne (Australia), this article responds both to calls for a more topological rendering of vertical urbanisms and the neglected experiences of vertical urban families. We detail the intimate and material geographies of high-rise family living and highlight how the topologies of high-rise living and the topographies of urban intensification projects intersect, including with benign and hopeful prospects for the contemporary city.

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“…Instead, many people have shortsightedly regarded building management as trivial on the grounds that buildings will be rebuilt soon or later (Walters & Kent, 2000). Others wrongly believe that management problems could be easily solved by proper building designs and financial support schemes (Easthope & Bandolph, 2009;Yeh & Yuen, 2011a). However, Yiu (2007) and Ho, Yau, Poon, and Liusman (2012) showed that relying on redevelopment is not a sustainable way of maintaining housing stocks.…”

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Collective action in apartment building management in Hong Kong

Gao

2013

Habitat International

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Introduction: High-Rise Living in Asian Cities

Cited by 21 publications

References 6 publications

Exploring Socio-Technical Features of Green Interior Design of Residential Buildings: Indicators, Interdependence and Embeddedness

Exploring Socio-Technical Features of Green Interior Design of Residential Buildings: Indicators, Interdependence and Embeddedness

Ordinary vertical urbanisms: City apartments and the everyday geographies of high-rise families

Collective action in apartment building management in Hong Kong

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