Young Families and High-Rise

Towards Inclusive Vertical Family Housing

Bibliographic Data

ID22018609
AuthorsLia Karsten (University of Amsterdam, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume7
Issue4
Publication date2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Planning (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635
PublisherCogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.17645/up.v7i4.5624
OpenAlexW4294044967
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited42

In the near future, the vertical dimension of housing will become increasingly important. But high-rise housing is still being seen as not only inconvenient but also as inappropriate for young family households. This article aims to contribute to the vertical turn in the urbanism debate from a family point of view. The focus is on large western-industrialized cities. This literature-based article consists of two parts. The first part starts with the deconstructing of families’ position in urban high-rises. It is argued that young families have an “uneasy” relationship with urban high-rises due to the neglected presence of children. The dichotomous ways in which we define children and cities ultimately define city children and vertical living families as out-of-place. The second part of the article searches for ways to reconstruct families’ relationships with high-rises. Based on an analysis of the literature, problems of vertical family living are identified, and possible solutions are discussed on both the geographical scale level of the apartment and the building. The summarized conclusion from the literature is that vertical apartment living and happy family life are not necessarily at odds. The building of family-inclusive high-rises is both in the benefit of urban-oriented families and cities

Apartment · Business · Cartography · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Family life · Geography · High rise · Horizontal and vertical · Logistic regression · Odds · Political science · Sociology · Urbanism · Collaborative and Sustainable Housing Initiatives · Engineering · Gender Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Medicine · Urbanization and City Planning