Inside high-rise housing securing home in vertical cities

As cities sprawl skywards and private renting expands, this compelling geographic analysis of property identifies high-rise development's overlooked hand in social segregation and urban fragmentation, and raises bold questions about the condominium's prospects

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: NETHERCOTE, MEGAN.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: BRISTOL BRISTOL UNIVERSITY PRESS 2022, 2022
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505 0 |a Teddy bears and cigarette butts -- 'They're not meant to smoke' -- Vacuuming at midnight -- Territorial incursions -- Part II Shared Infrastructure and Amenities -- 5 'It's the Building's Wiring Problem' -- Pipes, cables and rubbish chutes -- In/egress -- Lifts -- Circulation frictions -- 6 'She's Sort of Made It Her Own' -- 'You could watch their TV, for goodness' sake!' -- 'It's always the same people using those areas!' -- 'You can park there all day and never get booked' -- 'They look so nice but...' -- Annexing and withdrawing -- Conclusion: Securing Home in Verticalizing Cities 
505 0 |a Front Cover -- Inside High-Rise Housing: Securing Home in Vertical Cities -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Colonize the skies -- Property in condominium: from legal to lay perspectives -- Condo towers as propertied space -- Examining the condo home -- About this book -- Making the condo home -- Book structure -- Part I The Private Unit -- 3 'You're Not Supposed to Do That' -- 'The washing police' -- Decorating by the book -- Short on space -- High maintenance -- Local working rules -- 4 'I'll Close My Blinds' -- 'Like living in an aquarium' 
505 0 |a Condo homes at risk -- Threats to home as dominion -- Threats to home as belonging -- An anticommons risk -- Condo city futures -- Better vertical homes -- A city home for all -- Appendix: Fieldwork Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover 
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