Bluefield Housing as Alternative Infill for the Suburbs

"At a time where so much of the world is experiencing housing crises, Madigan provides a vision and guide for a much needed departure from Australia's broken 'business as usual' for how we deliver housing. An essential read for architects, planners and developers alike, and anyone who thinks 'housing' could do better in supporting a future where we all thrive."

Brugh O'Brien, Principal: Future of Home, The Australian Centre for Social Innovation

"This book is both a grand vision for a future of housing and practical guide for how to achieve it. There are maps of global potential for transforming single family neighborhoods alongside ideas for how to manage suburban infill essentials such as laundry and garbage. It is an invaluable combination of speculative pragmatism and prosaic invention with tangible relevance for the suburbs of the United States and Canada - a key reference for researchers and practitioners alike."

Michael Piper, University of Toronto

"More affordable, more diverse and more delightful housing? Seems like everybody is after it and we need it more than ever, but the inertia of established systems discourages change. This book takes a suite of practical and highly effective design ideas and runs them through a rigorous process addressing financial opportunities, regulations and community attitudes; showing how to move towards 'win-win' scenarios that deliver more dwellings and retain the character of the cities and suburbs we love. A timely and valuable contribution to the housing debate."

Nigel Bertram, Professor of Architecture, Monash University and Director, NMBW Architecture Studio

"Bluefield Housing reminds us that our suburbs are not immutable, but ever-changing and malleable. It shows us why they can - and should be - altered and added to. This is design research at its best - useful, transferable, propositional - advocating a compelling alternative to planning metrics. Madigan's incisive work ranges from acute observation and analysis to lucid propositions showing the latent capacity of suburban form to accommodate more - more trees, open space, connections, diversity, people: more good stuff."

Jennie Officer, Senior Lecturer, School of Design, University of Western Australia, and Director, Officer Woods Architects

"In the face of dynamic global demographics we urgently need imaginative, land-efficient, habitat-protective, cost-effective housing solutions. Damian's concept of "Bluefield Housing" is an exciting proposition and, in truth, common sense."

Naomi Cleaver, designer, author and TV presenter