Dahl, Caroline
- Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Housing provisions in the Western world, Australia included, are characterised by severalchallenges. New residential typologies are needed to cope with, for example, environmental andeconomic 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 homenessimaginaries. This paper explores new narratives of housing density generated through contemporarytransformations 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 inlandscape architecture as a theoretical framework to extrapolate means of upgrading the AustralianDream of homeness. While these planning operations bring together disparate imaginaries – theconvention of cosmopolitan urban lifestyle in the inner city versus the family-oriented lifestyle in thewider outer suburbs – they also tell a story about the coexistence of multiple imaginaries in contemporaryglobal cities, such as Melbourne. This paper will discuss findings from studies on Swedish waterfronts andAmerican suburbs to draft a research proposal concerning emerging residential typologies feasible to beapplied to Australian cities.
Keywords
Imaginaries; waterfront liveability; suburban transformation; densification cultures
Published in
Title: Harmony in Architectural Science and Design: Sustaining the Future,
Publisher: The Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA)
Conference
ASA 2024 Harmony in Architectural Science and Design: Sustaining the Future. 57th International Conference of the The Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA) 26 – 29 Nov 2024, Gold Coast, Australia
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Landscape Architecture
Publication identifier
- ISBN: 978-1-7637399-0-1
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/140912