Bluefield Housing As Alternative Infill for the Suburbs.

• Author: Madigan, Damian.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; Ã2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (335 pages)

Table of 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 10 Single Allotments -- Scenario -- Scenario -- Scenario -- Scenario -- Notes -- 11 Double Allotments -- Scenario -- Scenario -- Scenario -- 12 Multiple Allotments -- Scenario -- Scenario -- Scenario -- Scenario -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Notes -- 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 -- Note -- Index.