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August 23, 2021
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Towards an Urban Domesticity. Contemporary Architecture and the Blurring Boundaries between the House and the City

Publicated to: Housing Theory & Society. 38 (4): 402-418 - 2021-08-08 38(4), DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2020.1789211

Authors:

Martella, Flavio; Enia, Marco
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Affiliations

HYPERMEDIA: Taller de Configuración y Comunicación Arquitectónica. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Author
Univ Americas Puebla, Dept Architecture, Cholula, Mexico - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Dept Transversal Studies Architecture & Urbanism, Madrid, Spain - Author
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Abstract

The boundaries between domestic and urban environments are increasingly blurred. Until the contemporary era, the house acted as aquite autonomous microcosm and the city as its receptacle, but today this distinction is not so sharp. Various changes are transforming both domestic and urban life. Many activities, events and rituals usually associated with domestic space today take place often outside, scattering the home throughout the city. Meanwhile, domestic environment is increasingly accommodating some urban functions, changing its traditional meaning and giving rise to hybrid situations. Domestic and urban environments are merging in asymbiotic way; it is then necessary to rethink their spaces in order to respond to their contemporary and future evolutions. The paper aims at introducing the main facts about the contemporary blurring of the boundaries of domestic and urban space, explaining how this is currently affecting the architecture of both the house and the city.
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Keywords

ArchitectureDomesticityGenderHomePrivateSustainable cities and communitiesUrban areaUrban environmentUrban housingUrban lifestyle

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Housing Theory & Society due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Urban Studies.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-27:

  • WoS: 7
  • Scopus: 12
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-27:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 38.

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/93406/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 29
  • Downloads: 2
Continuing with the social impact of the work, it is important to emphasize that, due to its content, it can be assigned to the area of interest of ODS 11 - sustainable cities and communities, with a probability of 86% according to the mBERT algorithm developed by Aurora University.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Mexico.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (MARTELLA, FLAVIO) and Last Author (ENIA, MARCO).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been MARTELLA, FLAVIO.

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Project objectives

La aportación persigue los siguientes objetivos: analizar la transformación de los límites entre los espacios domésticos y urbanos en la era contemporánea; evaluar cómo las actividades tradicionalmente domésticas se desplazan al espacio urbano; determinar de qué manera el entorno doméstico incorpora funciones urbanas, generando situaciones híbridas; caracterizar la fusión asimbiótica entre los ambientes doméstico y urbano; y repensar los espacios arquitectónicos para responder a las evoluciones actuales y futuras de esta interacción. Estos objetivos permiten comprender el impacto de la difuminación de fronteras en la arquitectura de la casa y la ciudad, contribuyendo a una mejor interpretación de los cambios sociales y espaciales contemporáneos.
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Most relevant results

El estudio aborda la creciente disolución de los límites entre los espacios domésticos y urbanos en la arquitectura contemporánea. Los resultados más relevantes son: (1) la tradicional autonomía de la casa como microcosmos se ha reducido frente a la integración con la ciudad; (2) actividades y rituales domésticos se desplazan frecuentemente al espacio urbano, dispersando el hogar en la ciudad; (3) el entorno doméstico incorpora funciones urbanas, generando situaciones híbridas; (4) la relación entre lo doméstico y lo urbano se configura de manera asimbiótica; y (5) se evidencia la necesidad de replantear los espacios arquitectónicos para adaptarse a estas transformaciones actuales y futuras.
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