Standards in housing design: A review of the main changes since the Parker Morris report (1961)

Goodchild, Barry; Furbey, Robert

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“…Yet, from the point of view of understanding something of levels of satisfaction among residents living in flats in high‐rise experiments, such hybrid laboratories were simply not ‘whole’ enough or sufficiently ‘in place’. As we shall see, in the wake of postwar housing modernization there were a spate of social scientific, field‐based, post‐occupancy studies that sought to better understand the ‘total residential environment’, particularly as it pertained to high‐rise living (Hayden, ; Goodchild and Furbey, ; Forty, ). High‐rise housing complexes were viewed at least by some social‐scientific eyes as an ‘unparalleled near‐experimental setting’ (Merton, : 185–86) which, unlike laboratory experiments, were not ‘artificially impoverished’ of complexity (Studer, : 59).…”

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Houses of Experiment: Modern Housing and the Will to Laboratorization

Strebel

Jacobs

2013

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article adds historical and geographical specificity to the link between city building and laboratorization processes. It does so by way of the example of housing in mid‐twentieth‐century Britain. Housing provision at this time saw an intensification of the relationship between architectural design and science by way of the emergent field of building science as well as new social‐science studies of householder satisfaction. The article focuses on two examples of these housing sciences, tracing their role in the production of British modern housing. The first example focuses on a set of experiments conducted on ventilation and heating at Britain's Building Research Station. The second example examines the social science of a post‐occupancy study of multi‐storey flats in Glasgow. The article argues that mid‐twentieth‐century housing construction and provision was structured in and through a laboratory logic that had a complex geography and temporality. In the sciences of housing conducted during this period there is a conflation and hybridization of the space of the laboratory, the site of the house and the action of the experiment.

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Houses of Experiment: Modern Housing and the Will to Laboratorization

Strebel

Jacobs

2013

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Although they tend to concern all new/newly-refurbished housing, it is clearly difficult to be applied retrospectively or enforced post-construction (Goodchild and Furbey 1986). In Romania, the Housing Act (RG 1996) regulates minimal SSOS for new dwellings in terms of minimal number of habitable rooms, which includes bedrooms and a living room (Table 3) and floor-area by household size.…”

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Overcrowding and ‘Underoccupancy’ in Romania: A Case Study of Housing Inequality

Soaita

2014

Environ Plan A

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“…For instance, Goodchild and Furbey (1986, page 80) note that``such controls are negative devices which can only prevent dwellings with certain characteristics being built.'' It is also suggested that the minimum design standards of the building regulations tend to be confused with optimal or best standards when, in reality, they represent what Wylde et al (1994, page 248) refer to as the``least acceptable solution'' (see also Carmona, 2001;Goodchild and Furbey, 1986;Karn and Sheridan, 1994).…”

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“…These sentiments suggest that the physical and technical nature of Part M may be at the expense of it conceiving of the interrelationships between disability and housing quality in terms of what Goodchild (1997, page 46) calls``the house as a home'', or a place that carries real social and psychological meaning for its inhabitants (see also Goodchild and Furbey, 1986;Lynch, 1960;Mumford, 1966;Papanek, 1984;Rapoport, 1977). Others, such as Papanek (1984) and Turner (1976), concur in noting that the development of design quality in housing ought to relate to and draw upon intangible and nonquantifiable variables, such as dwellers' sense of belonging, privacy, enjoyment, self-worth, and well-being (see also Franklin, 2001).…”

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The role of the building regulations in achieving housing quality

Imrie

2004

Environ. Plann. B

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Urban policy in the United Kingdom emphasises the importance of good design as a key component in the revitalisation of towns and cities. In particular, housebuilders are being encouraged to develop sustainable construction practices, and to sensitise the design of dwellings to incorporate local building materials, design styles, and traditions. The government has noted that the building regulations will play a key role in ensuring the development and delivery of design quality. However, there is little or no knowledge of how far, and in what ways, the building regulations will be able to attain the objectives that government has set. The paper evaluates the role and relevance of the building regulations in seeking to deliver design quality in dwellings. It does so with reference to an empirical study of Part M of the building regulations (for England and Wales). This requires builders to provide access to dwellings for disabled people. The research indicates that the use of the building regulations is unlikely to raise, significantly, the quality of design in dwellings.

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Standards in housing design: A review of the main changes since the Parker Morris report (1961)

Cited by 13 publications

References 1 publication

Houses of Experiment: Modern Housing and the Will to Laboratorization

Houses of Experiment: Modern Housing and the Will to Laboratorization

Overcrowding and ‘Underoccupancy’ in Romania: A Case Study of Housing Inequality

The role of the building regulations in achieving housing quality

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