{"id":7229,"date":"2025-10-14T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/2025\/10\/14\/article-density-and-precarious-housing-overcrowding-sensorial-urbanism-and-intervention-in-hong-kong\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:10:21","slug":"article-density-and-precarious-housing-overcrowding-sensorial-urbanism-and-intervention-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/en\/2025\/10\/14\/article-density-and-precarious-housing-overcrowding-sensorial-urbanism-and-intervention-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"[Article] Density and Precarious Housing: Overcrowding, Sensorial Urbanism, and Intervention in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author: Hung-Ying Chen &amp;Colin McFarlane<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Housing Studies<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/02673037.2023.2280033\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/02673037.2023.2280033<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abstract<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This paper offers an approach to understanding high-density living in precarious housing. Developing a conception of housing density based on \u2018density expressions\u2019 and \u2018density modalities\u2019, we argue for a focus on how domestic density is experienced and intervened in by residents and other groups. This approach builds in existing work in Housing Studies and Urban Studies on domestic overcrowding by demonstrating the value of attending to its sensorial experiences, and practices that seek to alleviate those experiences.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drawing on fieldwork in Hong Kong, one of the densest and more unequal housing markets in the world, we identify \u2018infiltration\u2019 as a key form of density expression. We go on explore two density modalities through which residents and other groups, including civil society organisations and the state, practice modest forms of intervention in the struggles of precarious housing: \u2018improvisation\u2019 and \u2018transition\u2019. We conclude by considering the implications both on housing in Hong Kong and for future research on precarious housing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Hung-Ying Chen &amp;Colin McFarlane Source: Housing Studies Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/02673037.2023.2280033\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/02673037.2023.2280033<\/a> Abstract This paper offers an approach to understanding high-density living in precarious housing. Developing a conception of housing density based on \u2018density expressions\u2019 and \u2018density modalities\u2019, we argue for a focus on how domestic density is experienced and intervened in by residents and other groups. 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