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
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| Language: | English |
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BRISTOL
BRISTOL UNIVERSITY PRESS
2022, 2022
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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'
- 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