Morag Lindsay
Is there room for privacy in the compact city?
Lindsay, Morag; Williams, Katie; Dair, Carol
Abstract
Compact city theory has been embraced by the UK government and, consequently, is embedded in planning policies seeking to deliver sustainable outcomes. New housing and mixed-use developments are now being built that reflect the change in policy, for example, urban brownfield sites are being developed at higher densities with larger proportions of flats than previously. However, while the environmental, economic and increasingly the social benefits of urban compaction have been promoted, there has been little discussion of its impact on quality of urban life and in particular on levels of privacy. This paper begins to address this gap by reporting the results of research into the effects of the design of compact, sustainable housing on privacy in the home. The Privacy Study investigated the impact of a number of design and location features of new housing developments on residents' perceptions of overlooking and noise in their homes. The results suggest that in certain types of dwellings, such as flats, noise from neighbours is heard more often. The size of dwellings and plots influences residents' perceptions of overlooking of their homes and private open spaces. Overlooking of private outdoor space (but not indoor space) tends to be less in larger homes on bigger plots. Given the potential roles of noise and overlooking in modulating interactions between neighbours, this study suggests that further research is warranted on the impacts of compact design on privacy and, consequently, on aspects of social sustainability.
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2010 |
Deposit Date | Jan 17, 2011 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 10, 2016 |
Journal | Built Environment |
Print ISSN | 0263-7960 |
Publisher | Alexandrine Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 36 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 28-46 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.36.1.28 |
Keywords | sustainable design, privacy, social interactions, neighbours, neighbourhoods, compact city, density |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/986348 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.2148/benv.36.1.28 |
Contract Date | Feb 10, 2016 |
Files
Output_3_Figure_2.pdf
(113 Kb)
PDF
Output_3_Figure_1.pdf
(86 Kb)
PDF
Output_3_Room_for_Privacy_in_the_Compact_City.pdf
(321 Kb)
PDF
Output_3_Figure_2.doc
(123 Kb)
Document
Output_3_Figure_1.doc
(96 Kb)
Document
Output_3_Room_for_Privacy_in_the_Compact_City.doc
(571 Kb)
Document
You might also like
Urban form and infrastructure: A morphological review
(2014)
Report
The availability of brownfield land for housing
(2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gauging the brownfield land supply in England
(2015)
Journal Article
Downloadable Citations
About UWE Bristol Research Repository
Administrator e-mail: repository@uwe.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search