Crystal Victoria Olin

Biographic Data

ID4630506
NAMECrystal Victoria Olin
GIVEN NAMESCrystal Victoria
FAMILY NAMEOlin
SIGNATUREOLIN C V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Otago
ORCID0000-0002-1549-5814
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Cultivating wellbeing

    Open AccessLori Leigh, Edward Randal et al.ARTICLELocal Environment2026References: 29

  • Placemaking for tenant wellbeing

    Open AccessKaren Witten, Crystal Victoria Olin et al.ARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2025

    Public and community housing providers face high demand and tight financial constraints. • Investment trade-offs are made continuously between additional dwellings or social infrastructure. • Providers favor amenity-rich locations and shared spaces within developments to foster placemaking. • Integrating Māori landscapes, histories and memories respects and enhances tenants’ sense of place. • Iwi and government partnerships can lift social infras…

  • Like a family without being a family”

    Open AccessElinor Chisholm, Amber Logan et al.ARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2025

  • A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori wellbeing model for housing and urban environments

    Open AccessGuy Penny, Amber Logan et al.ARTICLEKōtuitui New Zealand Journal of…2024Cited by: 3References: 8

    Significant effort is underway to address the housing crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand (Aotearoa), including rapid investment in public and community housing. As Māori (the Indigenous people of Aotearoa) face many systemic barriers and impediments to home ownership, delivery and development of housing options and make up a significant proportion of public housing tenants, developing and managing housing and associated neighbourhoods that enable and…

  • Placemaking and public housing

    Open AccessElinor Chisholm, Crystal Victoria Olin et al.ARTICLEHousing Studies2024Cited by: 3References: 100

    This article examines the international literature on placemaking – practices or initiatives that encourage a sense of place – in public housing communities. Placemaking is likely to be particularly beneficial to public housing tenants, and is a current priority for public housing providers; yet reviews of placemaking research have failed to consider public housing. Our systematic quantitative review of 63 English-language journal articles reveal…

  • Inclusive and collective urban home spaces

    Open AccessCrystal Victoria Olin, James Berghan et al.ARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2022

    Housing and urban development in Aotearoa New Zealand. • Response to Government Policy Statement on Housing and Urban Development (GPS-HUD). • Wellbeing benefits of collectively-oriented housing and transport models. • Co-housing and papakāinga as transformational housing typologies. • Multi-year and multi-scale community-based research programmes

  • At ease in the city

    Open AccessCrystal Victoria Olin, Michelle Thompson-FawcettARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2022

    This paper contributes to deliberations about wellbeing in relation to home spaces by considering how professional expectations and everyday experiences of the neighbourhood, as an extension of home, relate to the cultural situatedness of individuals in Sweden. To do so, it presents and discusses findings from a case-based investigation of two developments in Stockholm that represent contemporary urban design and neighbourhood planning efforts in…