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Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers

di Stephen Graham

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"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 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"--… (altro)
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  Den85 | Jan 3, 2024 |
Could've used better editing. A typo on every other page, it seemed.

Also, adverbs/adjectives to cut down on:
*radical/ly - way overused, in most cases could've been cut out altogether
*colonize/ation - "she's sitting on the bench" becomes "the bench is colonized by her"
*neoliberal/ism - really, even in context I still don't know what it means other than it's a current bogeyman word and so i just replace it with 'bad stuff' in my head. or, i guess it's just a new way to say 'capitalism'? i recall some quote by some dude being described in a neoliberal context with a footnote that stated he was part of a neoconservative think-tank. well, i'm not opposed to the word existing but it (along with these other words) seems to have just been peppered in gratuitously.

I mean, I like pepper...but even I know when my mashed potatoes have had enough.



THAT SAID.
I like the concept of exploring the use of space going from Space->Subterranean Earth. It was illuminating, if mostly unsurprising (we build up at the expense of the environment/working class/poor, we build down at the expense of the environment/working class/poor). The verbiage/jargon just started to annoy me after a while.

Also, I like that my area got a paragraph devoted to it. ( )
  stravinsky | Dec 28, 2020 |
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"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 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"--

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