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作者

Barry Goodchild;Aimee Ambrose;Stephen Berry;Angela Maye-Banbury;Trivess Moore;Graeme Sherriff

来源

HOUSING THEORY & SOCIETY,Vol.,Issue

语言

英文

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作者单位

The Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK;The Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK;Research Node for Low Carbon Living (School of Engineering), University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, South Australia;The Department of the Natural and Built Environment, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK;School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia;Sustainable Housing and Urban Studies Unit, University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK

摘要

This paper uses oral history as an appropriate method to reveal how residents in the “green village” of Lochiel Park, South Australia, have changed their heating and cooling practises over their life courses. The analysis shows how concepts of modernity, largely drawn from Simmel, help analyze the narratives of the respondents and how these reveal both an increased reliance on technology in their life time and an increased involvement in the money economy. The narratives of the respondents at Lochiel Park express a paradox in which technological innovation has almost certainly enabled reduced energy use and reduced carbon emissions compared to the recent past, whilst also facilitating greater use of non-renewable energy sources compared to the period before the introduction of air conditioning. Based on the comments on residents, improved technology in building and in heating and cooling is likely to remain the most viable strategy towards sustainable thermal comfort.