AIM

The aim of the research is to improve the design, quality and affordability of residential intensification in New Zealand in order to make residential intensification a more attractive housing option.

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

The key research objectives are:

• To identify and undertake case studies that evaluate the provision of rental and owner occupied residential intensification in a range of examples from urban and provincial New Zealand.
• To investigate internal and external design, quality and affordability issues, spill-over effects, and post-construction governance and management issues associated with residential intensification in the case study areas.
• To investigate the ways and degrees in which residential intensification has fostered meeting people’s needs for work, play, shopping, schooling, transport, amenity, privacy and safety in the case study areas.
• To identify ways in which the interests of the local community, developers, land owners and potential new occupants of more intensive housing can be reconciled through better communication, design and closer attention to spill over/third party effects.
• To identify and provide a set of principles and practical guidelines aimed at improving the design, quality, affordability and relative desirability of additional residential intensification that can be applied in a variety of urban and provincial contexts.