Stephen Graham

Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1055g
• ISBN-13: 9781781687932
• ISBN-10: 1781687935
• Artikelnr.: 43356156

Autorenporträt

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. He is the author or editor of several books, including Telecommunications and the City and Splintering Urbanism (both with Simon Marvin), Cities, War and Terrorism, Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructures Fail, Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism, and Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers.

Rezensionen

"In this panoramic, at times jaw-dropping book, Stephen Graham describes how in recent years the built environment around the world, both above and below ground, has become dramatically more vertical - and more unequal. sharp and memorable. dizzyingly restless. Cities feel different once you've read it" Andy Beckett Guardian