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.