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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: NETHERCOTE, MEGAN
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: BRISTOL : BRISTOL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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'
  • 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
  • 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