The impact of the design and quality of communal areas in apartment buildings on residents' neighbouring and loneliness

《The impact of the design and quality of communal areas in apartment buildings on residents' neighbouring and loneliness》

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作者: Alexandra Kleeman;Billie Giles-Corti;Lucy Gunn;Paula Hooper;Sarah Foster

来源: CITIES,Vol.134,Issue1,Article 104126

语言: 英文

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作者单位: Centre for Urban Research, School of Global Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, 411 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia;Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC), School of Design, The University of Western Australia, Level 2, 1002 Hay St, Perth, Western Australia, Australia;School of Agriculture & Environment, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia;Centre for Urban Research, School of Global Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, 411 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia;Australian Urban Design Research Centre (AUDRC), School of Design, The University of Western Australia, Level 2, 1002 Hay St, Perth, Western Australia, Australia;School of Agriculture & Environment, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia;Transport and Logistics Group, Department of Engineering Systems and Services, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, the Netherlands;Capgemini engineering, Boulevard sebastien brant, 67400 Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France;Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7013, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden;Data Intensive Studies Center, Tufts University, Joyce Cummings Center 177 College Ave, Medford, MA 02155, USA;Department of Sociology, Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712 TS Groningen, the Netherlands;Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Landbergstraat 15, 2628 CE Delft, the Netherlands;University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;Universidade Tecnologica Federal do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil;Institut d'Estudis Regionals i Metropolitans de Barcelona (IERMB), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Plaça del Coneixement, Edifici MRA, Planta 2, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain;TURBA Lab, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Center for Chinese Public Administration Research, School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China;Department of Management, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia;College of Earth Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun 130061, China;State Key laboratory of urban and regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Megaregion National Observation and Research Station for Eco-Environmental Change, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China;Xiongan Institute of Innovation, Xiongan New Area, 071000, China

摘要: The shift towards higher density living in Australia, with the compact and shared spaces inherent to apartments, has prompted considerations of residents' social outcomes. This study tested whether communal area design in apartment buildings impacts residents' neighbouring and loneliness. Apartment developments (n = 113) in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth were assessed for objective building and policy-related measures of communal area design and quality, and residents' perceptions and use of communal areas. Behavioural and subjective factors had the strongest impact. Use of outdoor areas was positively associated with neighbouring and poorer perceptions of outdoor areas predicted lower neighbouring. Equally, residents who did not use indoor areas were more likely to be lonely while neighbouring was protective against loneliness. Objective measures had indirect impacts (i.e., communal area design quality impacts use, which in turn predicts neighbouring and loneliness). Our findings have policy and design implications, suggesting that communal areas are significant for social outcomes.

《The impact of the design and quality of communal areas in apartment buildings on residents&#39; neighbouring and loneliness》

《The impact of the design and quality of communal areas in apartment buildings on residents' neighbouring and loneliness》