Housing Diversity: Adapting 1.0 Infrastructure for 3.0 Lives

摘要

In a recent Volume essay, Charles Landry argued that many of today's key urban failings are due to citizens living 3.0 lifestyles while the city around them is designed and operating for a 1.0 world. In other words, culture, technology and society have advanced, yet many of our architectural and urban models, including building management and approaches to finance, have not. One sector where the misalignment is acutely felt is housing. Current best-practice housing approaches epitomize the modernist ideals of efficiency, democracy and control. However, these grand ambitions are undermined by the self-serving interests of individuals in market housing, facilitated through body corporates and the planning application appeal processes, and by a focus on minimizing expenditure in government housing. This misalignment between ideals and emerging sociocultural and economic shifts has resulted in complex housing shortage and affordability challenges. In order to understand how housing models can realign to and leverage influencing forces, we also need to understand the major shifts that have occurred within the lifestyles, decision-making processes and configurations of Australian households and the dwellings that accommodate them.