Vertical - The City from Satellites to Bunkers
Author(s): Stephen Graham
Vertical is a brilliant re-imagining of the world we live in. Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map. In Vertical Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level, calling for a a new understanding of our surroundings that takes into account above and below: why Dubai has been built to be seen from GoogleEarth; how the superrich in Sao Paulo live their penthouse lives far from the street; why London billionaires build vast subterranean basements rather than move house. Vertical will make you look at the city anew: from the viewfinders of drones, satellites, from the top of skyscrapers, at street-level and from underground bunkers: this is a new politics of space and geography.
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“Graham is a professor at Newcastle University and writes in an academic but compelling style.. Occasionally, Graham ties himself up in pious and over-exact jargon. Shanty towns, which increasingly occupy the vertical city spaces the rich don’t want, such as unstable mountainsides, are defined as “collective claims to space … necessarily mobilised by the poor and marginalised”. But more often his phrase-making is sharp and memorable. He sums up the increasing segregation of cities by height as “class war from above” Andy Beckett – The Guardian (JC BookGrocer)
Stephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Society at the Global Urban Research Unit and is based in Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape.
General Fields
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- : Verso Books
- : Verso Books
- : 0.567
- : 01 October 2016
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : Stephen Graham
- : Hardback
- : 307.76
- : 416
