Preface. Dubai, January 2010 -- Introduction. Going vertical -- Part one. Above. Satellite : enigmatic presence -- Bomber : death from above -- Drone : robot imperium -- Helicopter : direct arrival -- Favela : tenuous city -- Elevator/lift : going up -- Skyscraper : vanity and violence -- Housing : luxified skies -- Skywalk/skytrain/skydeck : multilevel cities -- Air : lethal domes -- Part two. Below. Ground : making geology -- Basement/cellar : urban undergrounds -- Sewer : sociology and shit -- Bunker/tunnel : subsurface sanctuaries -- Mine : extractive imperialism on the deep frontier -- Afterword.
Summary:
"From the penthouse to the sewers--the political geography of the vertical city 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 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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