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Conceptualising housing as infrastructure: a framework for thinking infrastructurally in housing studies | #OpenAccess

✍️Tegan L. Bergan & Emma R. Power Emma Power

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Our new paper in Housing Studies explores the regulation of families with children in apartments. We argue that alongside families’ experiences of poor design, regulation (both formal and informal) undermines families’ sense of home in apartments.
Hazel Easthope UNSW City Futures Research Centre

What does it mean to think about & research housing as infrastructure? How does housing organise social and economic life? This is a landmark paper from an exciting researcher - it was a privilege to write with Tegan, from her recently completed PhD tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Apartment living for families likely to increase, but to be a long-term success we need to shift from investor product to delivering the types of homes that diverse residents can see themselves living in over the longer term
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If apartment living is the future in Sydney, we need to ensure the apartments we're building can comfortably accommodate the diversity of people who actually live in them, especially families with children

I spoke to the ABC about this

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Families fear they'll be left out of Sydney's high-density future unless there's a shift toward building bigger apartments

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Our piece in the The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand calls for a vernacular Australian highrise, recognising air's complexity, beyond single variables like GHG Dr Sophie-May Kerr ACCESS geog&enviro theconversation.com/heat-cold-poll…

New paper by Nicole Cook and Sophie-May Kerr: 'Assembling #HighRise : The uneven agencies of air in suburban #densification in the #Anthropocene ' ow.ly/M3kL50Q3TjQ

Our new paper focuses on apartment residents experiences of air - heat, cold, pollution, noise and insects etc - in the Anthropocene

Join us this Friday for the next CFRC Seminar to hear from Prof Hazel Easthope on 'Delivering Sustainable Apartment Housing'

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Don't forget to register for today's event to hear from Dr Fatemeh Aminpour on 'Child-friendly environments in vertical schools'

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Don't forget to register for today's event to hear from Dr Nicole Cook on 'Suburban densification and the misalignment between housing demand and supply in Greater Sydney'

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Join us this Friday for the last CFRC Seminar for T2 to hear from Dr Nicole Cook who is speaking on 'Suburban densification and the misalignment between housing demand and supply in Greater Sydney'

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Don't forget to register for tomorrow's seminar to hear from Dr Sophie-May Kerr on Regulation and sense of home among families and children living in apartments in Greater Sydney.

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Join us this Friday for the next installment of the CFRC Seminar Series to hear from Dr Sophie-May Kerr on 'Regualtion and sense of home among families and children living in apartments in Greater Sydney'.

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But the narrative is more complicated. Apartment design must give consideration as to how people will manage everyday family life. Lifestyle affordances might attract families, however it is the functionality of the spaces that will determine whether they can comfortably stay.

Join us next Friday for the next CFRC Seminar to hear from Dr Chris Martin discussing the recently published AHURI report 'Towards an Australian Housing Homelessness Policy'.

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If we're going to encourage more people to live in apartments, we need to create more apartments that are suitable for families. Currently we're building for investors - not for those who actually live in them. I spoke to the The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sydney Morning Herald_andrew

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