Bluefield Housing As Alternative Infill for the Suburbs

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. This book offers a new land definition and co-located infill model addressing these concerns.

List of contents

Part 1 1. Being ‘Suburban’ 2. An Appetite for New Forms of Suburban Living 3. On Character and ‘Fitting In’ 4. Suburban Anomalies and Operations: catalogues of infill opportunities Part 2 5. From Green to Blue: a new definition for suburban infill 6. The Seven Principles of Bluefield Housing 7. Lot-level Design Tactics 8. Design for Liveability and Sustainability Part 3 9. From Top-down to Bottom-up: a deployable model 10. Single Allotments 11. Double Allotments 12. Multiple Allotments Part 4 13. A New Normal: leveraging established conditions 14. Carrots and Sticks: incentivising bluefield housing 15. Financing, Operating, and Selling Bluefield Housing 16. Zoning Laws: enabling bluefield housing Part 5 17. The Value of the Diagram and Studies in Rooms 18. Backgrounding Design Studies: a ‘designerly’ way of seeing 19. Generative Design Studies for Bluefield Housing 20. Housing for Whom? – Lessons from the Town Hall Floor

About the author

Damian Madigan is a registered architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of South Australia. A Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and a member of the South Australian State Government’s Design Review Panel, he undertakes housing research through design, working collaboratively with academics, industry, and government to create suburban infill housing typologies that better suit changing demographics. As an individual and collaborator, his housing propositions have won design competition awards, shortlistings, and commendations from the City of Los Angeles, the New South Wales State Government, the City of Sydney, Architecture Australia, and the Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation.

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. This book offers a new land definition and co-located infill model addressing these concerns.

Product details

• Authors: Damian Madigan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032276915
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3227691-5
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Urban communities, Building construction & materials, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, Building construction and materials, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design