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Sto caricando le informazioni... Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkersdi Stephen Graham
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 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. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"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"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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