Our interdisciplinary Urban Studies list examines how the built environment shapes behaviour and how to address complex problems like urban poverty, gentrification, climate change and educational inequality.
Subjects covered include urban planning, urban geography, urban policy, local governance and community-based participation, to offer a broad understanding of how urban dynamics shape both global interdependence and local spaces.
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Taller and denser city skylines are a hallmark of 21st century urban growth. But if the rise of vertical living is plain to see, largely unnoticed is the way that condominium and other analogous legal architectures that underpin this residential development create new intensities of property relations. As city residents including growing shares of private renters seek urban homes, this book questions how those new intensities of property relations reconfigure home in verticalizing cities. Drawing on legal geography's understandings of everyday property, this book embarks on a tour of the condo tower's propertied landscapes to understand how its residents understand and practise property in their private units and shared spaces and as they use shared infrastructures and how such socio-territorial dynamics inform their homemaking. Based on condo residents' personal accounts of living in contemporary Australian high-rise developments, it delivers a much-needed systematic analysis of the making and unmaking of the high-rise home. It identifies a set of socio-territorial pressures points that constrain condo homemaking and tables evidence of how associated dynamics contribute to the subjectification of the condo renter as risky and unruly condo resident. Inside High-Rise Housing argues that as private high-rise housing reconfigures homemaking in vertical cities it risks unmaking the condo home including through reproducing and hardening tenure-based stratifications within these private vertical urbanisms. The distinct materialities and spatialities of contemporary high-rise development, compound such risks, especially in the context of poor-quality high-rise design and construction.
This chapter examines the condo’s shared amenities and introduces territorial annexations and territorial withdrawals as constraints or pressure points on condo homemaking. It identifies how residents perceive and assert proprietorial claims over shared home spaces but also sometimes forgo their legal entitlements as they retreat from these spaces. Condo governance actors legitimize and delegitimize residents’ claims as their (in)action informs which practices residents understand as acceptable. Residents likewise influence which territorial claims management sanction as residents ‘snitching’ prompts managers to police practices they might otherwise overlook. Again, residents interpret co-residents’ territorial claims as private “takings”’ with this undermining condo homemaking, including by constructing condo renters as unruly condo subjects. Residents display a territorial apathy towards shared amenities that seems to indicate a weak sense of ownership. Residents’ sense of ownership is ambivalent, however, for they continue to appreciate even amenities they rarely frequent for their perceived financial value as they envisage their condo homes as financial assets.
This chapter contextualizes the rise of Australian high-rise condo living in international urban trends in vertical urbanization and the proliferation of condominium. It introduces condoization to help foreground that how condos are produced, consumed and governed informs condo living. It overviews the history, geographies and housing submarkets behind the remarkable contemporary surge in condo development in Australian cities, especially in the wake of the 2008/09 global financial crisis. To further contextualize homemaking in condo housing, it documents issues surrounding formal condo governance, including highlighting how by-laws govern residents’ home lives and the way formal governance enables condo owners to exert power over condo renters.
This chapter enters the private unit and introduces local working rules as a constraint or pressure point for condo homemaking. It identifies how locally contingent tacit codes of conduct and social expectations circumscribe residents’ homemaking as they do their laundry, store personal possessions, undertake minor renovations and manage home-maintenance issues. This chapter complicates the perceived role of formal private restrictions (by-laws) and residents’ private interests in regulating property practices in everyday condo living by capturing how residents self-regulate to conform with local working rules. It highlights how residents engage in ‘faux’ compliance with formal restrictions to satisfy private interests and other-regarding concerns and it shows how such practices variously support and undermine homemaking in the private unit, including by challenging residents’ traditional propertied expectations of their condo units as private domains of relative autonomy and control.
Boys and young men have been previously overlooked in domestic violence and abuse policy and practice, particularly in the case of boys who are criminalised and labelled as gang-involved by the time they reach their teens.
Jade Levell offers radical and important insights into how boys in this context navigate their journey to manhood with the constant presence of violence in their lives, in addition to poverty and racial marginalisation. Of equal interest to academics and front-line practitioners, the book highlights the narratives of these young men and makes practice recommendations for supporting these ‘hidden victims’.
In this chapter I consider the narratives of the respondents that centred on the early years of their lives, in particular between birth to the end of their pre-teens. In these parts of their stories, the participants described their circumstances at home, experiencing DVA, alongside their emerging engagement with violence in school and on-road. Central to the discussion a contrast between the way they performed masculinity at home (defined by subordinated masculinities), and at school (emerging protest masculinities). It became clear through the analysis that the different spaces of home, at school, and on-road afforded different masculinity performances.
This book shines a light on the lives of men who are simultaneously invisible as child survivors of domestic violence and abuse, but also rendered hyper-visible as young offenders on-road and gang-involved. The author explored in-depth life-stories focusing on the ways men, child survivors of domestic abuse and on-road/gang involvement, navigated their own sense of masculinity and manhood. Using the unique research method of music elicitation, participants were asked to bring three music tracks which helped them articulate their life stories. They discussed they ways in which they coped with childhood experiences of male violence, before engaging in all-male gangs. The author situates this within a wider context of gender-inequality and patriarchy. This analytic focus on masculinities draws on Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinity and protest masculinity, which was supported by the application of intersectionality to focus on the impact of race, ethnicity, and class on gendered identity. The findings illustrated how the participants went through changing understandings of masculinities through the life-course. Co-existing harms such as sexual violence and sexual exploitation, school violence and exclusion, and peer-on-peer violence are discussed, with suggested implications for policy work and interventions. The author examines the connection between masculinity, vulnerability, and violence. They suggest that these are in a symbiotic relationship which is made visible through an understanding of protest masculinity. Ultimately this book brings forward a unique understanding of the gendered impact of gendered violence on boys and men.
In this chapter there is an exploration of the ways in which children who have experienced DVA have been historically overlooked and seen as on the periphery to the abuse. Boys who have experienced DVA have occupied a space of tension within feminist organizing around DVA. In the early days of the second-wave feminist movement boys were seen as peripheral to the woman-focused nature of the movement and its related interventions. The author highlights there is still much work to be done to open up the conversation about men’s childhood experiences of DVA. This chapter also focuses on the issues for boys identified as gang involved. Gang labelling has been reductionist, racialized, and classed.
The gaps in research and policy work in this area have led to an under-examination of the ways in which masculine identities are constructed by boys and young men who live with DVA.
This book shines a light on the lives of men who are simultaneously invisible as child survivors of domestic violence and abuse, but also rendered hyper-visible as young offenders on-road and gang-involved. The author explored in-depth life-stories focusing on the ways men, child survivors of domestic abuse and on-road/gang involvement, navigated their own sense of masculinity and manhood. Using the unique research method of music elicitation, participants were asked to bring three music tracks which helped them articulate their life stories. They discussed they ways in which they coped with childhood experiences of male violence, before engaging in all-male gangs. The author situates this within a wider context of gender-inequality and patriarchy. This analytic focus on masculinities draws on Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinity and protest masculinity, which was supported by the application of intersectionality to focus on the impact of race, ethnicity, and class on gendered identity. The findings illustrated how the participants went through changing understandings of masculinities through the life-course. Co-existing harms such as sexual violence and sexual exploitation, school violence and exclusion, and peer-on-peer violence are discussed, with suggested implications for policy work and interventions. The author examines the connection between masculinity, vulnerability, and violence. They suggest that these are in a symbiotic relationship which is made visible through an understanding of protest masculinity. Ultimately this book brings forward a unique understanding of the gendered impact of gendered violence on boys and men.
In , the beginnings of the participants’ masculine biographies were outlined. They revealed the ways in which the participants inhabited a subordinate masculinity while living under the shadow of the DVA perpetrator in the private realm of home. Participants then sought opportunities outside the home where they were able to capitalize on how ‘hard’ and tough their home experiences had made them, added to the residual anger that they carried and looked for an outlet to express. Through these means they developed an emerging protest masculinity, propped up by the pursuit of opportunities for material gain, which started their journeys on-road.
