The digital power of the tower

Digital communication technologies and dwelling experience in residential large urban developments

Bibliographic Data

ID12820719
AuthorsOri Gershon-Coneal (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, corresponding author), E Eizenberg (0000-0003-3399-2563, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Y Jabareen (0000-0002-0858-9994, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume39
Issue2
Pages1063-1080
Publication date2024-03-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Housing and the Built Environment (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1566-4910 • E-ISSN: 1573-7772
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s10901-024-10113-w
OpenAlexW4392516307
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited38

Residential large urban developments are the dominant mode of housing development in many cities around the world. They introduce new technologies to the residential setting that reshape the dwelling experience. Using digital ethnography and in-depth interviews with residents of three residential large urban developments at the center of Israel, this paper portrays how the digital dimension is embedded in and reshapes the performance and experience of the housing environment. We argue the centrality of the digital dimension to the emergence of a distinctly different dwelling experience and the transformation of residential power relations in the city

Architectural engineering · Civil engineering · Economic geography · Geography · Human geography · Power (physics · Tower · Architecture and Computational Design · Engineering