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    Architectural form: flexibility, subdivision and diversity in Manhattan loft buildings
    (Web Portal Ubiquity Press, 2021) Kayatekin, Cem; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
    How do the design and spatial configuration of buildings impact the economic life of their neighbourhood? A mixed-methods study of industrial loft buildings in the Midtown Garment District of Manhattan in New York City investigates both occupants and built forms over a long period (1930–80). A large-scale statistical analysis of flexibility shows how the tenants’ space requirements in those buildings changed and how the buildings were able to respond through flexibility in the subdivision and arrangement of rooms or suites occupied by different tenants. The research is anchored around the physical and economic analysis of two sets of buildings (n = 37) divided according to whether buildings supported consistently high or consistently low diversities of tenants of varying economic specialisations over time. These loft buildings were found to support an economic diversity of businesses (i.e. many collaborating specialisms in the garment industry) that expand or contract according to business conditions. From the analysis of these buildings,an array of six physical parameters is derived that influence the capabilities of buildings to consistently support high levels of diversity of tenants over extended periods of time. PRACTICE RELEVANCE This research shows that the physical characteristics (design and layout) of buildings affect their capabilities to accommodate a variety of different tenants,allowing for a rapid expansion or contraction of individual tenancies. This flexibility provides economic robustness for the building because it can respond to changing tenant needs and economic conditions. The design decisions involving cores,corridors,facades,light and air have economic impacts that were not previously recognised. They emerge here as critical elements in the fine-grained relationship between the physical and economic dynamics of the city. © 2021 The Author(s).
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    Urban Morphology and Housing Stock Granularity A Cross-Scalar Analysis
    (ESSD, 2023-12-31) Kayatekin, Cem; Uribe, Lorenzo; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
    Do urban morphological parameters trickle down to impact the diversity and granularity of a district’s housing stock? Do urban morphological parameters impact housing rental values? These are the main questions underpinning this mixed-method study of four districts across Madrid and Barcelona—two districts developed in a bottom-up manner and exhibiting high morphological heterogeneity, and two developed in a top-down manner and exhibiting high morphological homogeneity. The large-scale statistical analyses conducted from October 2021 to May 2022 via the course of this research delves into the cross-district variations and commonalities of residential values, dwelling unit sizes, plot sizes, block sizes, and street widths. Three findings of import are uncovered—(1) possessing an intricate urban-morphological (or housing stock) granularity does not come hand-in-hand with having high urban morphological (or housing stock) diversity; (2) despite not possessing a higher diversity of urban morphological elements, the bottom-up districts still behaved as slightly-divergent and more-affordable real estate bubbles when compared to the top-down neighborhoods; and (3) across all the districts examined, smaller-scale plots consistently supported more than their expected share of smaller-scale dwelling units.