Abstract
The patterns and characteristics of everyday life have been changing according to changes in social structure. However, South Korean apartment complexes as a representative urban housing type are still based on the Western tradition of modern working-class housing, and have been commodified in the context of consumer capitalism. Therefore, this research explores the contemporary lifestyles that should be supported in urban housing by analyzing the articles of lifestyle magazines. Based on this analysis, we derived the changed patterns of contemporary lifestyles in terms of residents’ characteristics, the relationship between individuals and family, the relationship between house and workplace, and the pursuing direction of residential space planning. These results can contribute to discover the contemporary characteristics of everyday life and its lifestyle; define the changed meaning of urban housing; and reduce the gap between living space and their lives for urban and social sustainability.
Highlights
A macroscopic and theoretical analysis is conducted in relation to the transition of capitalist social structure that shifted from industrial capitalism and consumer capitalism to creative economy, and changes in characteristics that constitute everyday lives, including contemporary values and lifestyles
We try to derive the new meaning of urban housing from the changed characteristics of contemporary everyday life. These results show that the spatial environment of South Korean urban housing represented by apartment complexes is in contradiction with the lifestyle desired by the actual residents, and this is a critical issue for social sustainability
With the advent of the creative class and the emergence of human creativity as the core engines of the economy, the patterns and structure of everyday life have become essentially different from the previous era, and the meaning of housing has been newly researched
Summary
The housing types in urban areas of South Korea lack diversity to a globally unprecedented level. The conflicts gradually led to a critique of the monolithic and functional space model of the apartment complex, and its monotonous and homogeneous everyday life In this context, Park and Park (2011) pointed out that “the desire to spend time in a department store was not for purchasing goods but to compensate one’s self from the mundaneness of the apartment” [7]. This study intends to assess this newly emerging lifestyle due to changing social structure through an extension of the conventional sociological everydayness discussion that everyday life is closely related to social structure and change This will serve as a basis for discussing the meaning of new urban housing in the 21st century, and the diversity of urban housing types, beyond typical apartment complexes for standard middle-class nuclear families
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