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Reid, Christopher

Ongoing trends of urbanization are increasing the demand for housing in many of North America’s major cities, causing parallel increases in housing prices and driving what many have called an ‘affordability crisis’ in urban housing markets. Meeting this increased demand for housing and addressing affordability concerns will require more housing units to be built on already scarce urban land, and will therefore require a densification of present dwelling patterns. However, the low-density single-family home remains the preferred form of housing for many North Americans, and many who live in multi-unit apartments already find them lacking relative to single-detached options. This graduate project aims to achieve a detailed understanding of how specific attributes of available housing options of varying densities affect housing satisfaction, separate from the effects of density itself. This research is then used to inform a design strategy for a new multi-unit housing typology for Vancouver that can be customized by residents and adapt over time to suit changing needs. Such a strategy could improve resident satisfaction with multi-unit housing, and both ease and motivate a transition from single-family homes toward a denser form of urban living in the city’s single-family neighbourhoods.

Vancouver (B.C.)

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University of British Columbia. ARCH 549

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0432058

Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of

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Christopher Reid

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