Multi-Unit Housing in Urban Cities

From 1800 to Present Day

Katy Chey

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781317279754
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architektur
• Subtopic: Wohnarchitektur

This book investigates the development of multi-unit housing typologies that were predominant in a particular city from the 1800s to present day. It emphasises the importance of understanding the direct connection between housing and dwelling in the context of a city, and the manner in which the city is an instructional indication of how a housing typology is embodied.

The case studies presented offer an insight into why a certain housing type flourished in a specific city and the variety span across cities in the world where distinct housing types have prevailed. It also pursues how housing types developed, evolved, and helped define the city, looks into how dwellers inhabited their dwellings, and analyses how the housing typologies correlates in a contemporary context. The typologies studied are back-to-backs in Birmingham; tenements in London; Haussmann Apartment in Paris; tenements in New York; tong lau in Hong Kong; perimeter block, linear block, and block-edge in Berlin; perimeter block and solitaire in Amsterdam; space-enclosing structure in Beijing; micro house in Tokyo, and high-rise in Toronto.

Index

Note: italic references denote images.

access types (interior building) 8, 9

Ahrends, Bruno 150

Amsterdam see perimeter block buildings, Amsterdam; solitaire form, Amsterdam

Artisans’ and Labourers’ Dwelling Improvement Act (1875) 29, 56

Average London Tenement Buildings 34

back-to-backs, Birmingham 2, 3, 10, 12

access type 22

alley passage 18

big yard 18–22

characteristics 12–16

components and organisation 16–22

congestion 28–29

construction materials 22–27

courtyards 16, 17

government departments, policies, regulations 29

interiors 22

layout 18

owners, landlords, developers, reformers 28

plan type 22

present day 29

balconies

Hong Kong Tong Lau 126, 130, 133

Toronto high-rise towers 324, 325

Bartning, Otto 154, 199

Beijing see space-enclosing structures, Beijing

Berlin 138

government-funded housing timeline 200–201

historical context 139

IBA Housing Exhibitions 165

owners, landlords, developers, reformers 198–200

present day 201see also Berlin Housing Estates; block-edge buildings; IBA ’57; IBA ’84/87; linear block buildings; perimeter block buildings

Berlin Housing Estates 140–141

access type 164

Britz Residential Estate (Horseshoe Estate) 143–144, 145–149

Carl Legien Estate 144, 150, 151–153

components and organisation 142–143

construction materials 164

owners, landlords, developers, reformers 198–199

plan type 154

Siemensstadt Estate (“Ring” Estate) 154, 155–163

White City 150

Bethnal Green estate, London tenements 44, 48 Birmingham see back-to-backs, Birmingham

Blackfriars, London tenements 42

block-edge buildings, Berlin 2, 5, 138

access type 164

characteristics 139

components and organisation 142–143

construction materials 164

historical c...