Vertical urbanisms Opening up geographies of the three-dimensional city

This paper develops a more diverse and multi-dimensional agenda for understanding and researching urban verticality. In particular, it argues for vertical geographies that encompass more than issues of security and segregation and are not necessarily framed by the three-dimensional politics of Israe...

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Published inProgress in human geography Vol. 39; no. 5; pp. 601 - 620
Main Author Harris, Andrew
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.10.2015
Subjects
ordinary cities
volume
verticality
mobile urbanisms
topology
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Summary:This paper develops a more diverse and multi-dimensional agenda for understanding and researching urban verticality. In particular, it argues for vertical geographies that encompass more than issues of security and segregation and are not necessarily framed by the three-dimensional politics of Israel/Palestine identified by some commentators. In opening up a wider world of vertical urbanisms, the paper outlines three key approaches: close attention to where urban verticality is theorised and the relationship between power and height, the importance of ethnographic detail to emphasise more everyday verticalities and disrupt top-down analytical perspectives, and geographical imaginations that carefully attend to the myriad spatial entanglements of the three-dimensional city.
ISSN:0309-1325
1477-0288
DOI:10.1177/0309132514554323