Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (837 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1781689970 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Graham’s book digs deep to reveal the elements that are not immediately apparent and will be of interest to those who truly care about shaping urban life for the better.” —CTBUH Journal (Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat)Praise for Cities Under Siege: “Roll over Jane Jacobs: here’s urban geography as it looks like through the eye of a Predator at 25,000 feet. The compelling geo-political parallels between power and verticality make it impossible to see cities the same way.”—Bookwitty “Graham’s wonderfully dazzling cross-sectional tour puts forth a powerful argument as to why our conventional ‘flat’ reading of the world needs to be re-calibrated to meaningfully engage the vertically layered reality of society … one of the most important books on cities of the recent past.”—Erick Villagomez, <
. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Cities Under Siege. Stephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Society at the Global Urban Research Unit, based in Newcastle University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
A revolutionary reimagining of the cities we live in, the air above us, and what goes on in the earth beneath our feet Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In Vertical, Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level: how the geography of inequality, politics, and identity is determined in terms of above and below.Starting at the edge of earth’s atmosphere and, in a series of riveting studies, descending through each layer, Graham explores the world of drones, the city from the viewpoint of an aerial bomber, the design of sidewalks and the hidden depths of underground bunkers. He asks: why was Dubai built to be seen from Google Earth? How do the super-rich in São Paulo live in their penthouses far above the street? Why do London billionaires build vast subterranean basements? And how do the technology of elevators and subversive urban explorers shape life on the surface and subsurface of the earth?Vertical will make you look at the world around you anew: this is a
"the vertical geography of human society" according to Robert D. Harmon. This fascinating work takes a new look at human geography, with more attention to economic and social engineering than to architecture or engineering as such -- a focus on the impacts and reactions to vertical structures. It focuses not just on skyscrapers, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai or the new 1000m tower rising in Medina but on subterranean structures as well, both the tunnel systems honeycombing the depths of major cities and the . Not really for the layperson The premise of this book is fascinating, but reader, be warned: this really isn't aimed at the layperson. It's filled with sentences like this one:"During this meeting they perform complex vertical movements using elevators to move between multiple sessions discussing 'mobilities', 'time-space compression', 'logistical urbanism', 'transport geography' and so on".It's also filled with footnotes and citations. If you are not intimidat. wogan said in the time of now. This is a book that is interesting, but is almost like a textbook. There are footnotes on almost every page and the vocabulary is a high level.Stephen Graham begins by telling us that passenger airline flights move over war zones today. This is not just to tell you about buildings, but he goes into satellites, Menwith Hill tracking and google Earth.There are many subjects covered here, more than buildings in cities, although those h