Pagani, Anna;
Binder, Claudia R;
(2021)
A systems perspective for residential preferences and dwellings: housing functions and their role in Swiss residential mobility.
Housing Studies
, 38
(4)
pp. 682-706.
10.1080/02673037.2021.1900793.
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Abstract
Worldwide, there is an urgent imperative to provide a housing supply that is environmentally sustainable as well as acceptable and desirable for its users. A holistic and integrative understanding of the relationship between households’ residential preferences and dwellings is needed to achieve this goal. This paper addresses this gap by conceptualizing and operationalizing housing as a system whose human and material behaviours are determined by its function. Following a qualitative literature review to identify what housing functions are and investigate their effects on the housing system, we explore the applicability of such functions in Swiss tenants’ residential mobility. Results show that multiple functions co-exist in the housing realm, each of which determines various human (i.e. residential preferences) and material (i.e. dwelling forms) behaviours that vary according to given societal and environmental structural elements (e.g. geography, culture). We also observe that housing functions potentially provide the missing link between the determinants of tenants’ residential mobility.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A systems perspective for residential preferences and dwellings: housing functions and their role in Swiss residential mobility |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02673037.2021.1900793 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.1900793 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Environmental Studies, Regional & Urban Planning, Urban Studies, Environmental Sciences & Ecology, Public Administration, Housing system, housing function, residential preferences, HOME |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10176093 |
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