In current policy and academic debates, retrofits are often understood within the growing effort to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings in light of the policy challenges posed by climate change. While there is a significant amount of engineering-led work on the subject, it has become increasingly apparent that policy-led retrofits can only work if they are implemented within a comprehensive effort that recognizes the complexities associated with enacting change among consumers and local authorities, as well as the role of wider socio-technical systems, institutions, innovation, and multi-stakeholder collaboration.
In line with such debates, my work has sought to explore the different forms of social, technical and political resilience that allow for retrofits to happen on a grassroots basis during extended periods of time. I found that the forces and interventions that allow buildings to be upgraded and transformed by their residents are rarely guided or supported by formal state policy.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Retrofitting the Built Environment
Bricolage at street level: It is associated with the emergence of a new mobility and consumption patterns, which in turn interact with the uneven geography of economic development and infrastructure provision in the city to privilege some social groups, built tissues and temporal horizons over others. A landscape of do-it-yourself urbanism — additions and modifications in a s apartment block in Ljubljana.
The degree to which residential buildings may be transformed via different types of alterations hinges on the internal features of the households such as income or education, in addition to the structures of the built environment: It has also transpired that households and individuals value resilience in different ways, and may not necessarily behave in rationally predictable ways when it comes to transforming their residential environment in response to externally-induced pressures. I also uncovered the existence of a plurality of perceptions and understandings of resilience and flexibility.
While some individuals see the ability to change or adapt their everyday spaces to new circumstances as a key priority in everyday life, others have emphasized the attachment to place, habit and stability. Through this process, local inhabitants were able to build a dynamic relationship with their everyday space, without having to accept the dominant logic of capitalist consumption. A deeper understanding of the diverse mechanisms through which residential buildings and people may embody complex processes of adaptation can lead to a radical rethinking of existing understandings of urban resilience in relation to external and internal shocks and stress.
University of Tasmania
Residential Flexibility, Resilience and the Built Environment. A socially resilient urban transition? The contested landscapes of apartment building extensions in two post-communist cities. Urban Studies , 48 , — You may have already requested this item.
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