Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (838 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1781689970 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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. 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
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
Enthusiastically recommended.”—Library Journal “Seeing cities as Gordian knots of geopolitics, Graham gathers an impressive range of case studies to bolster his analysis.”—Nature. 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 t
the vertical geography of human society 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 skyscrape. 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 sessi. "in the time of now" according to wogan. 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