Inside High-Rise Housing

Abstract

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. 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.

Housing in Germany and the Rebirth of the High-Rise in Post-Modern Urban Design

“…Especially since the 1990s, a gradual renaissance of concepts consciously making use of residential high-rises has taken place in newly developing residential neighborhoods in a wider context of verticalization with the help of iconic architecture (Drozdz et al, 2018;Glauser, 2020;Greco, 2018;Harris, 2015). While particularly high-rise condominium housing has reshaped property and everyday life substantially (Lippert, 2019;Nethercote, 2022), it is worth mentioning that they have only gradually and selectively gained prominence in Europe. In contrast to "modern" urban quarters, high-rise residential and mixed-use neighborhoods often combine modern and traditional elements to form hybrid urban patterns.…”