Re-designing the Australian dream : Homeness imaginaries in emerging residential typologies
(2024) 57th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2024 p.274-274- Abstract
- Housing provisions in the Western world, Australia included, are characterised by several challenges. New residential typologies are needed to cope with, for example, environmental and economic considerations of land use, escalating construction cost, and the lack of affordable housing. Urban form determines measures of density. It also spurs our common imaginaries of urban life. Hence,
to calibrate urban form with new residential typologies, we need to upgrade the prevailing homeness imaginaries. This paper explores new narratives of housing density generated through contemporary transformations of the urban fabric, and draws on cultural implications when increasing density. Proposing Melbourne as object of inquiry, it takes Ian H.... (More) - Housing provisions in the Western world, Australia included, are characterised by several challenges. New residential typologies are needed to cope with, for example, environmental and economic considerations of land use, escalating construction cost, and the lack of affordable housing. Urban form determines measures of density. It also spurs our common imaginaries of urban life. Hence,
to calibrate urban form with new residential typologies, we need to upgrade the prevailing homeness imaginaries. This paper explores new narratives of housing density generated through contemporary transformations of the urban fabric, and draws on cultural implications when increasing density. Proposing Melbourne as object of inquiry, it takes Ian H. Thompson’s scholarship on imaginaries in landscape architecture as a theoretical framework to extrapolate means of upgrading the Australian Dream of homeness. While these planning operations bring together disparate imaginaries – the convention of cosmopolitan urban lifestyle in the inner city versus the family-oriented lifestyle in the wider outer suburbs – they also tell a story about the coexistence of multiple imaginaries in contemporary global cities, such as Melbourne. This paper will discuss findings from studies on Swedish waterfronts and American suburbs to draft a research proposal concerning emerging residential typologies feasible to be applied to Australian cities. (Less)
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- Dahl, Caroline ; Dahl, Per-Johan LU and Aranda-Mena, Guillermo
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Imaginaries, waterfront liveability, suburban transformation, densification cultures
- host publication
- Harmony in Architectural Science and Design : Sustaining the Future - Sustaining the Future
- editor
- Zhang, Fan ; Yu, Rongrong ; Bischeri, Cecilia ; Liu, Tingting and Khoshbakht, Maryam
- pages
- 281 pages
- publisher
- The Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA)
- conference name
- 57th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association 2024
- conference location
- Gold Coast, Australia
- conference dates
- 2024-11-26 - 2024-11-29
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- 978-1-7637399-0-1
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- English
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abstract = {{Housing provisions in the Western world, Australia included, are characterised by several challenges. New residential typologies are needed to cope with, for example, environmental and economic considerations of land use, escalating construction cost, and the lack of affordable housing. Urban form determines measures of density. It also spurs our common imaginaries of urban life. Hence,<br/>to calibrate urban form with new residential typologies, we need to upgrade the prevailing homeness imaginaries. This paper explores new narratives of housing density generated through contemporary transformations of the urban fabric, and draws on cultural implications when increasing density. Proposing Melbourne as object of inquiry, it takes Ian H. Thompson’s scholarship on imaginaries in landscape architecture as a theoretical framework to extrapolate means of upgrading the Australian Dream of homeness. While these planning operations bring together disparate imaginaries – the convention of cosmopolitan urban lifestyle in the inner city versus the family-oriented lifestyle in the wider outer suburbs – they also tell a story about the coexistence of multiple imaginaries in contemporary global cities, such as Melbourne. This paper will discuss findings from studies on Swedish waterfronts and American suburbs to draft a research proposal concerning emerging residential typologies feasible to be applied to Australian cities.}},
author = {{Dahl, Caroline and Dahl, Per-Johan and Aranda-Mena, Guillermo}},
booktitle = {{Harmony in Architectural Science and Design : Sustaining the Future}},
editor = {{Zhang, Fan and Yu, Rongrong and Bischeri, Cecilia and Liu, Tingting and Khoshbakht, Maryam}},
isbn = {{978-1-7637399-0-1}},
keywords = {{Imaginaries; waterfront liveability; suburban transformation; densification cultures}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{274--274}},
publisher = {{The Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA)}},
title = {{Re-designing the Australian dream : Homeness imaginaries in emerging residential typologies}},
year = {{2024}},
}