Bluefield Housing As Alternative Infill for the Suburbs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madigan, Damian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing development Environmental aspects.

Housing development.

City planning--Decision making.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Summary:

"Suburbanised cities share a common dilemma: how to transition to more densely populated and socially connected urban systems while retaining low-rise character, avoiding gentrification, and opening neighbourhoods to more diverse housing choices. Bluefield Housing offers a new land definition and co-located infill model addressing these concerns, through describing and deploying the types of ad-hoc modifications that have been undertaken in the suburbs for decades. Extending green-, brown- and greyfield definitions, it provides a necessary middle ground between the 'do nothing' attitude of suburban preservation and the 'do everything' approach of knock-down-rebuild regeneration. An adjunct to 'missing middle' and subdivision densification models, with a focus on co-locating homes on small lots, Bluefield Housing presents a unified design approach to suburban infill: retrofitting original houses, retaining and enhancing landscape and urban tree canopies, and delivering additional homes as low-rise additions and backyard homes suited to the increasingly complex make-up of our households. Extensively illustrated by the author with engaging architectural design studies, Damian Madigan describes how existing quirks of suburban housing can prompt new forms of infill, explains why a new suburban densification model is not only necessary but can be made desirable for varied stakeholders, and charts a path towards the types of statutory and market triggers required to make bluefield housing achievable. Using Australian housing as an example but addressing universal concerns around neighbourhood character, demographic needs, housing diversity, dwelling flexibility, and landscape amenity, Bluefield Housing offers innovative suburban infill ideas for policy makers, planners, architects, researchers and students of housing and design studies, and for those with a stake in the future of the suburbs"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsement

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

How to Use this Book

Density Measures Defined

Existing Similar Models

Note

Introducing Bluefield Housing

What's Really Stopping Us?

Alternative Infill for the Suburbs

Both / And

Co-location, Shared Landscape, Flat Hierarchy

Why 'Bluefield': Extending the 'Colour' Field Nomenclature

A Housing Model for Older People?

On Sharing

A Unified Design Approach

Notes

Part 1

1 Being 'Suburban'

A Necessary Generalism

A Hit With the Public

Suburban DNA: Houses as Building Blocks

Landscape: the Collateral Damage of Knock-Down-Rebuild

Contextualising Suburban Change

The Search for Amenable Low-Rise Densification Models

2 An Appetite for New Forms of Suburban Living

Domestic Independence / Domestic Sharing

Multigenerational Living

Stories of Proactive Sharing

Cohousing and Pocket Neighbourhoods

Intentional Communities

Backyard Homes

Collaborative Housing Goals

3 On Character and 'Fitting In'

The Rhetoric of Strategic Growth

Fear of the Known

Nothing to See Here . . .

Unintentional Monuments: the Character of Aesthetics

Nostalgia

Remembering the Past: the Character of Activity

Permission to Change

Unintended Hubris and Character Shaping

4 Suburban Anomalies and Operations: Catalogues of Infill Opportunities

Suburban Scaffolds

Commonly Accepted Anomalies

A 1. Raised Fences

A 2. Extruded Verandahs

A 3. Side Pods

A 4. Rear Additions

A 5. Front Additions

Suburban Operations

SO 1. Rear Additions

SO 2. Side Pods

SO 3. Side Additions

SO 4. Front Additions

SO 5. Top Additions

SO 6. Yard Additions

SO 7. Side Additions (Double Allotments)

SO 8. Yard Arrangement.

Quality-in-my-backyard

Part 2

5 From Green to Blue: A New Definition for Suburban Infill

The Greenfields

The Brownfields

The Greyfields

The Bluefields: a New Definition for Suburban Infill

6 The Seven Principles of Bluefield Housing

Resilience, Sustainability, and Inclusivity Where It Is Needed

Principle 1 Facilitate Sharing

Principle 2 Ignore Lot Size and Yield, and Co-Locate to Avoid Land Division

Principle 3 Retain and Adapt the Lot's Original Housing

Principle 4 Leverage the Prevailing Pattern of Alterations and Additions

Principle 5 Create Housing in a Flat Hierarchy

Principle 6 Arrange Housing Around Shared Landscape in a Unified Design

Principle 7 Design for Social, Financial, and Environmental Sustainability

Social Sustainability

Financial Sustainability

Environmental Sustainability

7 Lot-Level Design Tactics

Bugbears and Joys

Cars

Designing the Prosaics: Rubbish, Laundry, and Storage

Site Separation and Designed Interactions

Water-sensitive Design

Pets

Private and Public

8 Design for Liveability and Sustainability

A Holistic Approach to Small Suburban Housing

Accessibility

Adaptability

Wall Space

Slack Space

Storage

Finding Space in Older Homes

Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Resilience

Passive Strategies

Active Strategies

Part 3

9 From Top-Down to Bottom-Up: A Deployable Model

Top-down Vs Bottom-Up

Design Methodology

Design Methods and Data

Lot Sizes

Site Area Per Dwelling

Detached House Arrangements

Housing Typology and Sizes

House Sizes

Site Coverage

Number of Storeys

Construction Types

Basements

Laneways

Car Parking

Fencing

Overlooking

Density Calculations

Building Codes

The Single Lot Studies.

The Double Lot Studies

The Multiple Lot Study

Imagining the Residents

10 Single Allotments

Scenario

11 Double Allotments

12 Multiple Allotments

Part 4

13 A New Normal: Leveraging Established Conditions

Building Our Way Out From the Inside

Similar, Not Different

What's So New?

Getting to YIMBY

14 Carrots and Sticks: Incentivising Bluefield Housing

Development Potential

Give-and-take

Development Scorecards

Demonstration Projects, Standard Plans, and Toolkits

Brokerages and Grants

Tax Incentives

Short-term Rentals and Mixed-Use

15 Financing, Operating, and Selling Bluefield Housing

The Patrons of Bluefield Housing

An Established Market

Borrowing for Bluefield Housing

Community Land Titling

Reversibility and Strategic Staging

Written Family Agreements and Residents Agreements

Becoming a Resident

Living in the Community

Leaving the Community

16 Zoning Laws: Enabling Bluefield Housing

How Many Homes?

What's in a Name?

Land Management Agreements

The Zoning Principles of Bluefield Housing

Design Review: Quality Over Quantity

Coda

17 The Value of the Diagram and Studies in Rooms

Communicating New Dwelling Forms

Bluefield Housing Design Exercises

Bluefield .exercise 1: Stuff

Task 1: Space Maps

Task 2: Dual Spaces

Task 3: Catalogue

'Stuff' Extension Task: Enclosure

Bluefield .exercise 2: Porous Rooms

18 Backgrounding Design Studies: A 'Designerly' Way of Seeing

Seeing the Familiar With New Eyes

Bluefield .exercise 3: Grid Block

Bluefield .exercise 4: The Block Apartment

19 Generative Design Studies for Bluefield Housing.

Outward Communication Studies

Bluefield .exercise 5: Seven Design Tactics

Bluefield .exercise 6: Algebraic Siting Strategies

Task 1: Volume

Task 2: Diversity

Task 3: Flexibility and Mixed-Use

Task 4: Intensification

20 Housing for Whom?: Lessons From the Town Hall Floor

Discussing Change Through Narrative Arcs

Housing for Whom? The Power of Personification

Co-design

Lessons From the Town Hall Floor

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-003-80054-8

OCLC:

1409683488