Vertical : the city from satellites to bunkers. / txt
Stephen Graham.
- 1st edition
- xiii, 402 p. ill. ; 24 cm book
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents : Preface: Dubai, January 2010 ix -- Introduction: Going Vertical 1 -- Part One Above: 1 Satellite: Enigmatic Presence 25 -- 2 Bomber: Death from Above 52 -- 3 Drone: Robot Imperium 67 -- 4 Helicopter: Direct Arrival 95 -- 5 Favela: Tenuous City 116 -- 6 Elevator Lift: Going Up 129 -- 7 Skyscraper: Vanity and Violence 149 -- Housing: Luxified Skies 174 -- 9 Skywalk Skytrain Skydeck: Multilevel Cities 220 -- 10 Air: Lethal Domes 244 -- Part Two Below: 11 Ground: Making Geology 281 -- 12 Basement Cellar: Urban Undergrounds 313 -- 13 Sewer: Sociology and Shit 322 -- 14 Bunker Tunnel: Subsurface Sanctuaries 340 -- 15 Mine: Extractive Imperialism on the Deep Frontier 365 -- Afterword 388 -- Acknowledgements 389 -- Index 392 -- Figures: Figure 0.1 David Coulthard’s Formula Ince car on the helipad od the Burj Al Arab, where it has been lifted in a 2013 media stunt x -- Figure 0.2 An example of the latest flat mapping illustration of the planet’s urbanization from Harvard University’s Urban Theory Lab 8 -- Figure 0.3 An upside down world map based on Stuart McArthur’s original Universal Corrective Map of the World 20 -- Figure 1.1Steve Rowell’s chance meeting with a Ministry of Defense police vehicle outside the Menwith Hill NSA Base 35 -- Figure 1.2 Poet Raúl Zurita’s 3 kilometer poem in the Atacama desert 50 -- Figure 2.1 Tullio Crail’s Nose diving on the City 1939 53 -- Figure 2.2 Stacked bodies and vertical annihilation: German soldiers burning piles of dead German civilians in Dresden after the firestorm caused in the city by British and US area bombing raids between 13 and 15 February 1945 58 -- Figure 2.3 Illustrations from John Mansbridge’s 1943 British pamphlet Here Comes Tomorrow celebrating both modernism of aircraft and the new chance that bombing offered British cities to rebuild along modernist lines 66 -- Figure 3.1 The NotABugSplat project viewed from, the air. It is the work of French, American and Pakistani political artists 68 -- Figure 3.2 Essam Attia’s satirical anti drone poster, which he distributed on the streets of New York in December, 2012 91 -- Figure 4.1 Early 1950s vision for a huge raised halidome on top of London’s Hungerford Bridge and Charing Cross rail station. Anticipating complex webs of intercity helicopter services that never materialized, the helidome would have been equipped with large flight deck centre, an arrival area left, departures area right, passenger lounges and elevators integrating it with the rail station bellow 97 -- Figure 4.2 A Sao Paulan business executive commuting to his central city office tower from the home helipad on his gated country estate 101 -- Figure 4.3 Foucault’s boomerang: An advert from sensor manufacturer Forward Looking Infra Red extoling the crossover between paramilitary and military helicopters 105 -- Figure 4.5 Advert for a US Bell Super Cobra attack helicopter 113 -- Figure 5.1 Catastrophic floods and landslides on Rio’s slopes, January 2011 118 -- Figure 5.2 The new cable car system over Rio’s Alemao favela 123 -- Figure 5.3 Reese Campbell and Demetrios Comodromo’s designs for informal Cairo skyscrapers 128 -- Figure 6.1The world’s tallest elevator research and testing facility: Hitachi’s 213 meter G1 tower in Fuchu, Tokyo 130 -- Figure 6.2 No longer hidden inside the building’s core, the spectacular transparent gondola elevators animate the atrium of John Portman’s Hyatt Regency hotel 1967 139 -- Figure 6.3 Parking spaces linked to sky garage car elevators in the Hamilton Scotts housing tower in Singapore 144 -- Figure 7.1 Construction of the Kingdom Tower, Jeddah, February 2015 150 -- Figure 7.2 Manhattan’s architects dressed as their own skyscrapers, perform the skyline of New York at the city’s Beaux Arts Ball in 1931 155 -- Figure 7.3 The most infamous of London’s supposedly iconic crop of new skyscrapers: the Cheese grater left behind; the Walkie Talkie left front; The Gherkin middle; and the Shard right viewed from South London 165 -- Figure 8.1 Above Glasgow’s Red Road Estate after construction; below demolition of some Glasgow’s modernists housing blocks on Red Road, June 2012 187 -- Figure 8.2 432 Park Avenue, the second highest tower in Manhattan after the new One World Trade Center tower, under construction, 2013 199 -- Figure 8.3 The view south towards the Empire State building and One World Trade Center from a bathroom in a 95 million penthouse suit in the 432 Park Avenue tower 199 -- Figure 8.4 Consider it a blessing to share the same address as God and The higher you go the cooler you get advertising hoarding around the Indiabulls Sky Tower, Mumbai, 2013 207 -- Figure 8.5 Antilla: The Ambani single family skyscraper, Mumbai 208 -- Figure 9.1 Commercial mall skybridges by passing traditional streets in Minneapolis 226 -- Figure 9.2 Echoes of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis: Bangkok’s Skytrain system 231 -- Figure 9.3 The super luxury answer to vertical sprawl and spatial dead ends, sky park atop the three towers of the fifty five storey five star Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore 242 -- Figure 10.1 Airpocalypse: Everyday life in pollution plagued Beijing 256 -- Figure 10.2 Smog and simulation: A fake skyline erected for tourists in Hong Kong, 2013 257 -- Figure 11.1 Sacrificed Zone: Helicopter view of mountaintop removal coalmining on the Appalachians in the US 290 -- Figure 11.2 Losing ground: Poster from India’s Awaaz Foundation, fighting to stop illegal sand mining for urban construction in Mumbai 299 -- Figure 11.3 The terrestrial surface as Google brandscape: The view of Dubai’s World and one of the two Palm developments from the International Space Station 300 -- Figure 11.4 Dredgers constructing the World artificial archipelago off the coast of Dubai through a technique known as rainbowing 300 -- Figure 11.5 Huge land reclamation projects reshaping the geography of Bahrain, 2015 303 Figure 12.1Jacob Riis’s photograph of officials from the New York City Tenement House Department inspecting a basement accommodation in New York, c. 1900 317 -- Figure 13.1 Construction of new sewers above the Fleet River in London, 1870s 324 -- Figure 13.2 Parisian sewer workers in a newly built sewer below the Boulevard de Sébastopol 1872 327 -- Figure 13.3 Porthole to filth: Sewer workers, Manchester, 1912 329 -- Figure 13.4 Forty three year old Devi Lal, a sewer driver in Delhi, 2012 338 -- Figure 14.1 Boeing’s 30,000 pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator MOP bunker busting bomb and the team who built it 345 -- Figure 14.2 A Palestinian being lowered to work on one of the tunnels linking the Gaza strip with Egypt 351 -- Figure 14.3 A picture from Andrea Star Reese’s urban cave project: Chuck, one of Manhattan’s thousands of tunnel residents, settles down for night deep below the street level 353 -- Figure 14.4 An urban explorer navigating a sewer tunnel deep below central London 361-- Figure 15.1 Belgian coalminers reemerging at the surface in a miner’s cage after their shift, 1920s 369 -- Figure 15.2 The parallel growth upwards and downwards of the worlds highest skyscrapers and deepest mines between 1850 and the contemporary period 371 --
"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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