Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Post-pandemic adaptive reuse: lessons for public health from England's deregulated office to residential conversions
Given changing patterns of use of commercial space post-Covid, particularly offices, and situations of housing crisis being experienced in many places internationally, there is growing interest in adaptive reuse of commercial buildings for residential purposes, including in a number of North American cities. Sustainability considerations around the embodied carbon within building structures also makes such change of use schemes increasingly appealing. Alongside this, a supply-side understanding dominates discussion of how to respond to the housing crisis is many national contexts, leading proponents to call for ever further deregulation of urban planning and related built environment governance as the means to resolve the crisis, in a neoliberal imaginary. In England, in 2013 central government changed planning regulations so that developers could convert office buildings and, from 2015, retail and light industrial spaces, into housing without needing the traditional case-by-case planning permission from the local authority: a process called ‘permitted development’. Existing research has demonstrated how the deregulation has led to numerous housing quality issues, including in relation to the size of the dwellings created (‘space standards’), natural light into habitable rooms, access to outdoor space and the location of housing in relation to neighbouring land uses and accessibility (for example Ferm et al, 2021). There is a growing interest in the relationship between urban planning and public health (Pineo, 2022). Within a multi-scalar relationship between planning and health, housing quality is an important determinant of health and wellbeing and a major factor in societal health inequities (Bird et al, 2018). Given the increasing amounts of time people are often spending within their homes post-pandemic, this relationship is important, and these issues are exacerbated in socio-economically deprived neighbourhoods and for residents may have higher vulnerability than the general population. Marsh et al (2020) ...
Post-pandemic adaptive reuse: lessons for public health from England's deregulated office to residential conversions
Given changing patterns of use of commercial space post-Covid, particularly offices, and situations of housing crisis being experienced in many places internationally, there is growing interest in adaptive reuse of commercial buildings for residential purposes, including in a number of North American cities. Sustainability considerations around the embodied carbon within building structures also makes such change of use schemes increasingly appealing. Alongside this, a supply-side understanding dominates discussion of how to respond to the housing crisis is many national contexts, leading proponents to call for ever further deregulation of urban planning and related built environment governance as the means to resolve the crisis, in a neoliberal imaginary. In England, in 2013 central government changed planning regulations so that developers could convert office buildings and, from 2015, retail and light industrial spaces, into housing without needing the traditional case-by-case planning permission from the local authority: a process called ‘permitted development’. Existing research has demonstrated how the deregulation has led to numerous housing quality issues, including in relation to the size of the dwellings created (‘space standards’), natural light into habitable rooms, access to outdoor space and the location of housing in relation to neighbouring land uses and accessibility (for example Ferm et al, 2021). There is a growing interest in the relationship between urban planning and public health (Pineo, 2022). Within a multi-scalar relationship between planning and health, housing quality is an important determinant of health and wellbeing and a major factor in societal health inequities (Bird et al, 2018). Given the increasing amounts of time people are often spending within their homes post-pandemic, this relationship is important, and these issues are exacerbated in socio-economically deprived neighbourhoods and for residents may have higher vulnerability than the general population. Marsh et al (2020) ...
Post-pandemic adaptive reuse: lessons for public health from England's deregulated office to residential conversions
Sufineyestani, Mina (Autor:in) / Clifford, Ben (Autor:in) / Pineo, Helen (Autor:in)
09.11.2024
Presented at: ACSP2024 Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, USA. (2024)
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Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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