Inside High-Rise Housing: Securing Home in Vertical Cities - Hardcover

Nethercote, Megan

 
9781529216288: Inside High-Rise Housing: Securing Home in Vertical Cities
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1529216281 ISBN 13: 9781529216288
Publisher: Bristol University Press, 2022

Synopsis

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Condominium and comparable legal architectures make vertical urban growth possible, but do we really understand the social implications of restructuring city land ownership in this way?

Geographer and architect Megan Nethercote enters the condo tower to explore the hidden social and territorial dynamics of private vertical communities. Informed by residents’ accounts of Australian high-rise living, this book shows how legal and physical architectures fuse in ways that jeopardize residents’ experience of home and stigmatize renters.

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.

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About the Author

Megan Nethercote is an ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Australia.

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Publisher
Bristol University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1529216281
ISBN 13 
9781529216288
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
282