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<p>With the growing population in cities globally, progressively more people are compelled to live in apartments. Apartments often have small kitchens and food-related spaces, potentially making them less supportive environments for at-home food practices. Despite this, no existing evidence has documented how apartment-specific housing policies address kitchen design, although this poses potentially detrimental implications for population health. Using a comparative policy analysis, this study identified 17 apartment design guidelines from 10 territorial jurisdictions to address this gap. We compared them based on comprehensiveness, measurability, and whether they were evidence-based. Analysis was conducted using the Framework Method, detailing eight kitchen and housing design themes: ‘Ventilation’, ‘Suitability of construction materials’, ‘Storage for food and kitchen appliances’, ‘Lighting’, ‘Kitchen size and layout’, ‘Fixed kitchen equipment’, ‘Communal food spaces’, and ‘Accessibility and inclusivity’. Our findings showed that existing apartment design guidelines in our sample vary greatly in breadth and the level of detail in which they address the design aspects of kitchens and food-related spaces, and often lack a sound basis derived from research. Considering these, we illustrated clear aspects for improvement among existing apartment guidelines. Future work is needed to systematically monitor future apartment design guidelines from more diverse and novel settings.</p>

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Investigating food-related aspects of apartment building design guidelines: an international comparison

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    2025年12月3日

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  • Allan Estandarte,
  • Fiona Andrews,
  • Angela Kreutz,
  • Lukar Thornton

摘要

With the growing population in cities globally, progressively more people are compelled to live in apartments. Apartments often have small kitchens and food-related spaces, potentially making them less supportive environments for at-home food practices. Despite this, no existing evidence has documented how apartment-specific housing policies address kitchen design, although this poses potentially detrimental implications for population health. Using a comparative policy analysis, this study identified 17 apartment design guidelines from 10 territorial jurisdictions to address this gap. We compared them based on comprehensiveness, measurability, and whether they were evidence-based. Analysis was conducted using the Framework Method, detailing eight kitchen and housing design themes: ‘Ventilation’, ‘Suitability of construction materials’, ‘Storage for food and kitchen appliances’, ‘Lighting’, ‘Kitchen size and layout’, ‘Fixed kitchen equipment’, ‘Communal food spaces’, and ‘Accessibility and inclusivity’. Our findings showed that existing apartment design guidelines in our sample vary greatly in breadth and the level of detail in which they address the design aspects of kitchens and food-related spaces, and often lack a sound basis derived from research. Considering these, we illustrated clear aspects for improvement among existing apartment guidelines. Future work is needed to systematically monitor future apartment design guidelines from more diverse and novel settings.