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This paper explores the role of housing in the achievement of prosperity from a capabilities perspective. Prosperity, according to Jackson (Prosperity without growth: economics for a finite planet, Earthscan, Oxford, 2009), is built on Amartya Sen’s notion of capabilities for flourishing. Then, in the pursuit of understanding the role of housing as an enabler of capabilities for the achievement of prosperity, this paper investigates the gaps in the views/concepts of housing through comparisons of the ten central capabilities, the right to adequate housing, and meanings of home. Data from a recent qualitative study in rural and urban Kenya is used for empirical analysis as a way to develop a localised application of the discussion. Looking through the lens of the Capabilities Approach brought a useful framework that made it possible to capture human and social housing values that are many times neglected. In that sense, the paper explores housing both as the physical conditions of the house and as the social and psychological dynamics that construct the meanings of home. The research demonstrated that the extent to which housing enables the enjoyment of capabilities for flourishing increases or diminishes insofar housing acknowledges and incorporates both material and non-material functions. Hopefully, this exercise can serve to inform and enrich future localised housing design, research and policy, where a more comprehensive understanding and conceptualisation of housing seems imperative: Housing, as House + Home.
摘要 本文从能力的角度探讨了住房在实现繁荣中的作用。杰克逊（Prosperity without growth: economics for a finite planet, Earthscan, Oxford, 2009）认为，繁荣是建立在阿马蒂亚-森（Amartya Sen）的繁荣能力概念之上的。为了理解住房作为实现繁荣的能力促进因素的作用，本文通过比较十项核心能力、适足住房权和家的含义，研究了住房观点/概念中的差距。本文使用了最近在肯尼亚农村和城市开展的一项定性研究的数据进行实证分析，以此对讨论进行本地化应用。从 "能力方法 "的视角来看，该方法提供了一个有用的框架，能够捕捉到人类和社会的住房价值，而这些价值在很多时候都被忽视了。从这个意义上说，本文既探讨了住房的物质条件，也探讨了构建家的意义的社会和心理动力。研究表明，只要住房承认并包含了物质和非物质功能，那么住房在多大程度上能够让人们享受到繁荣发展的能力就会增加或减少。希望这项工作能够为未来的本地化住房设计、研究和政策提供信息和丰富内容，在这方面，似乎必须对住房有更全面的理解和概念化：住房，作为房子+家。
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The Journal of Housing and the Built Environment is a scholarly journal presenting the results of scientific research and new developments in policy and practice to a diverse readership of specialists, practitioners and policy-makers. This refereed journal covers the fields of housing, spatial planning, building and urban development. The journal guarantees high scientific quality by a double blind review procedure. Next to that, the editorial board discusses each article as well. Leading scholars in the field of housing, spatial planning and urban development publish regularly in Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. The journal publishes articles from scientists all over the world, both Western and non-Western, providing a truly international platform for developments in both theory and practice in the fields of housing, spatial planning, building and urban development.
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment (HBE) has a wide scope and includes all topics dealing with people-environment relations. Topics concern social relations within the built environment as well as the physicals component of the built environment. As such the journal brings together social science and engineering. HBE is of interest for scientists like housing researchers, social geographers, (urban) planners and architects. Furthermore it presents a forum for practitioners to present their experiences in new developments on policy and practice. Because of its unique structure of research articles and policy and practice contributions, HBE provides a forum where science and practice can be confronted. Finally, each volume of HBE contains one special issue, in which recent developments on one particular topic are discussed in depth.
The aim of Journal of Housing and the Built Environment is to give international exposure to recent research and policy and practice developments on the built environment and thereby open up a forum wherein re searchers can exchange ideas and develop contacts. In this way HBE seeks to enhance the quality of research in the field and disseminate the results to a wider audience. Its scope is intended to interest scientists as well as policy-makers, both in government and in organizations dealing with housing and urban issues.
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