Vertical urbanism
vertical, gratte-ciel, architecture, bidonville, transport, jardin, occupation du sol, espace urbain, société urbaine, politique de la ville, Harris Andrew
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The paper considers how contemporary cities are constructed, framed and understood through vertical axes and dimensions. It charts upward trajectories in not only iconic high-rises, but in vertical gardens, townships, slums and urban farms, and in modes and methods of urban transport. The paper argues that these vertical manifestations and domains of urban life are not simply a response to space constraints and land values but mark and make visible new forms of social and political power, which disrupt notions of centre-periphery in traditional, flatter models of the city. Although recognising the validity and relevance of highlighting and analysing spatial dichotomies between vertical and horizontal urban worlds, the paper seeks to complicate such binaries. Drawing on recent research from Mumbai, the paper explores and identifies overlapping (or vertizontal) connections, practices and assemblages in three-dimensional city-making.</div>
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<b>Andrew Harris </b>is a Lecturer in Urban Studies and Geography at University College London.</div>
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See also other lectures from this conference:</div>
Flight from modernity - aerial photography and the emergence of a social conception of space</a></div>
Vertigo: For a vertical turn in critical social science</a></div>
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Andrew Harris
8 December 2010
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2010/12/andrew-harris-%E2%80%93-vertical-urbanism/
Flight from modernity - aerial photography and the emergence of a social conception of space
photographie, photographie aérienne, aerial photography, aménagement urbain, analyse spatiale, espace urbain, société urbaine, Lefebvre Henri, France, vertical, Haffner Jeanne
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As a technique of representation, aerial photography has often been associated with “top-down” urban planning programs initiated by twentieth-century modern capitalist states. This book seeks to demonstrate that, in fact, the new social conception of space developed by French urban sociologist Henri Lefebvre and others in the 1960s and 1970s was actually engendered with the aid of this novel twentieth-century tool of vision. Beginning in the 1930s, French social scientists working in a variety of different academic fields used aerial photos to investigate the spaces of human habitation in French colonies as well as in France. The technique, which was closely linked to the French colonial state and military, helped them to see the connection between spatial organization and social organization. After World War II, these anthropological theories of spatial organization were turned back onto the metropole. By the 1960s and 1970s, as we will see, the anthropological critique developed in the 1930s had become a full-fledged attack on contemporary urbanism.</div>
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<b>Jeanne Haffner </b>is an urban historian and a fellow at Harvard University.</div>
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Vertical urbanism</a></div>
Vertigo: For a vertical turn in critical social science</a></div>
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Jeanne Haffner
8 December 2010
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2010/12/jeanne-haffner-%E2%80%93-flight-from-modernity-%E2%80%93-aerial-photograpahy-and-the-emergence-of-a-social-conception-of-space/
Vertigo : For a vertical turn in critical urban social science
vertical, espace urbain, architecture, sciences politiques, culture urbaine, gratte-ciel, souterrain, subterranean, Graham Steve
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This wide-ranging, synthetical paper offers a cross-cuang view of a range of emerging research on the politics of verticality which appertain to contemporary urban spaces. Arguing that critical urban social science has long neglected the vertical aspects of urban life, the paper seeks starting points for a vertical turn within such research through engaging with recent research in architecture, political theory and cultural studies on the intersections of architecture and contemporary colonial power, the profusion of skyscrapers and subterranean architectures, and the proliferation of vertically-organised sensors and targeting and imaging systems within security, military and cultural circuits. These emerging developments are connected with earlier discourses on the politics of vertical architecture, aeriality and the vertical view within urban studies, architecture, cartography and geopolitics. The paper finishes with a reflection on the challenges of addressing the politics of verticality and aeriality within critical urban social science.</div>
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<b>Steve Graham </b>is Professor of Cities and Society at the Global Urban Research Unit at Newcastle University.</div>
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See also other lectures from this conference:</div>
Flight from modernity - aerial photography and the emergence of a social conception of space</a></div>
Vertical urbanism</a></div>
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Steve Graham
8 December 2010
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2010/12/steve-graham-%E2%80%93-vertigo-for-a-vertical-turn-in-critical-urban-social-science/