SBE-RCUK: The Effects of Non-peripheralization of Affordable Urban Housing

该奖项支持的研究将通过测试有关住房对经济，政治和社会生活影响的假设，扩大对位于市中心的经济适用住房的社会影响的科学理解。最近的一个发展是将新住房安置在中心城市社区，而不是像过去那样更边缘的社区。新方法包括一系列模式，包括国家计划项目、自我管理的国家补贴合作社、国家补贴租金以及非正式接管改造建筑。 这项研究将利用一个单一的城市中心，所有这些方法都在尝试，这提供了一个自然的实验，以调查一系列社会科学问题的建成环境，社会组织和社会流动之间的关系。例如，不同模式的经济适用房项目如何影响就业和经济流动性？不同的项目如何影响亲属关系、性别关系和邻里社会性？它们如何影响公民参与和城市参与？为了回答这些问题，一个跨学科的国际团队，包括人类学家约翰S。Burdick（锡拉丘兹大学）、地理学家Jeff Garmany博士（伦敦国王学院）、人类学家Rolf Ribeiro de Souza博士和Michelle Lima Domingues博士（巴西弗鲁米嫩塞联邦大学）以及城市规划师Luciana Correa do Lago博士（巴西里约热内卢联邦大学）将在巴西里约热内卢市中心港口区进行研究。这个地点适合研究，因为它是五个明显不同的新经济适用房模型的所在地，所有这些模型都彼此靠近。其中包括由实行参与性治理的住房组织管理的合作社;由不实行参与性治理的住房组织管理的合作社;由联邦住房管理局管理的建筑;租金管制的公寓;以及家庭建立了独立组织的入侵者定居点。研究人员将采用一系列社会科学方法来收集数据：对不同住房项目的日常运作进行密集的参与式观察;对项目居民进行深入访谈，每隔一段时间重复一次，以记录变化;对城市规划者和官员进行访谈;与当地城市规划和建筑专家举行信息会议;以及对住房相关文件和媒体进行文本分析。由于住房项目和中心城区在世界各地都是相似的，这些问题的答案将是普遍的，不仅对关注住房组织和建筑环境的社会影响的学者感兴趣，而且对各地的政策制定者和城市规划者也感兴趣。该项目还将为研究生和博士后学者提供培训。 该奖项是根据SBE-RCUK牵头机构协议。

The research supported by this award will enlarge scientific understanding of the social effects of centrally-located affordable urban housing, by testing hypotheses about the impact of housing on economic, political and social life. One recent development to place new housing in centrally-located urban neighborhoods rather than more peripheral ones as often was the case in the past. The new approach encompasses an array of models, including state-planned projects, self-managed state-subsidized cooperatives, state-subsidized rentals, and informal take-overs of repurposed buildings. This research will take advantage of a single city center where all of these approaches are being tried, which provides a natural experiment to investigate a range of social science questions about the relationships between the built environment, social organization, and social mobility. For example, how do differently-modelled affordable housing projects affect employment and economic mobility? How do different projects affect kinshhip, gender relations, and neighborhood sociality? How do they affect civic engagement and urban paricipation? To answer such questions, an interdisciplinary and international team comprised of anthropologist Dr. John S. Burdick (Syracuse University), geographer Dr. Jeff Garmany (King's College London), anthropologists Dr. Rolf Ribeiro de Souza and Dr. Michelle Lima Domingues (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil), and urban planner Dr. Luciana Correa do Lago (Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil) will undertake research in the downtown port district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This site is appropriate for the research because it is home to five clearly distinct models of new affordable housing, all located in close proximity to each other. These include a cooperative administered by a housing organization that practices participatory governance; a cooperative administered by a housing organization that does not practice participatory governance; a building run by the federal housing authority; rent-controlled apartments; and an invader settlement in which families have established an independent organization. The researchers will employ a range of social science methods to collect data: intensive participant observation in the everyday functioning of the different housing projects; in-depth interviews with project residents, repeated at intervals to record change; interviews with urban planners and officials; information sessions with a local expert in urban planning and architecture; and text analysis of housing-related documents and media. Because housing projects and central urban districts are similar throughout the world, answers to these questions will be generalizable and of interest not only to scholars interested in the social effects of housing organization and the built environment, but also to policymakers and urban planners everywhere. The project also will provide training for graduate students and for a postdoctoral scholar. This award is made under the SBE-RCUK Lead Agency Agreement.