Liveability in urban housing design
Kömi, Laura (2021)
2021
Arkkitehdin tutkinto-ohjelma - Master's Programme in Architecture
Rakennetun ympäristön tiedekunta - Faculty of Built Environment
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Hyväksymispäivämäärä
2021-02-22
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202102031886
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202102031886
Tiivistelmä
This thesis is about finding out what liveability is especially in urban housing design and urban neighbourhoods and can it be evaluated somehow. The research is being carried out through literature review, design studies, and statistics analysis. The context of this thesis is Finnish cities and apartment block concentrated neighbourhoods.
There are as many definitions for liveability as there is research concerning it. In this thesis, the term ‘liveability’ is understood as a comprehensive concept, which qualifies whether a place is comfortable, desirable and sustainable place to live in. Liveability can be considered consisting of many elements or many sectors and it can be also observed in many scales. Some contributing factors are being easy to understand and easy to measure when some of them are completely subjective, non-measurable and depend on a person or even context.
In conclusion, this thesis is producing an evaluation tool for urban liveable housing (EVLI). In other words, defining and evaluating liveability at least at some level is possible. However, this thesis also justifies the complexity of liveability since the evaluation tool has so many levels.
On the side, this thesis is also raising up some issues what there are in the Finnish housing industry. One of the biggest problems seems to be the too small sizes of the dwellings, which undoubtedly affects liveability.
There are as many definitions for liveability as there is research concerning it. In this thesis, the term ‘liveability’ is understood as a comprehensive concept, which qualifies whether a place is comfortable, desirable and sustainable place to live in. Liveability can be considered consisting of many elements or many sectors and it can be also observed in many scales. Some contributing factors are being easy to understand and easy to measure when some of them are completely subjective, non-measurable and depend on a person or even context.
In conclusion, this thesis is producing an evaluation tool for urban liveable housing (EVLI). In other words, defining and evaluating liveability at least at some level is possible. However, this thesis also justifies the complexity of liveability since the evaluation tool has so many levels.
On the side, this thesis is also raising up some issues what there are in the Finnish housing industry. One of the biggest problems seems to be the too small sizes of the dwellings, which undoubtedly affects liveability.