Theorising vertical urbanisation

Nethercote, Megan

doi:10.1080/13604813.2018.1549832

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“…The accelerated process of vertical urbanization in the last few decades is associated with economic and political processes such as neoliberalism. These processes are accompanied by the growing use of technology that enables higher towers to grow at faster rates than ever before (Nethercote, 2018). A major facet of contemporary volumetric cities is high-rise residential projects (Harris, 2015;Nethercote, 2018).…”

Section: Urban Morphology and Hrhcsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These processes are accompanied by the growing use of technology that enables higher towers to grow at faster rates than ever before (Nethercote, 2018). A major facet of contemporary volumetric cities is high-rise residential projects (Harris, 2015;Nethercote, 2018). Following these urban trends, scholars have begun to study the experience and use of different vertical residential projects in detail, as well as their constitution and assembly (see, e.g., Baxter, 2017;Harker, 2014).…”

Section: Urban Morphology and Hrhcsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban Morphology and Qualitative Topology: Open Green Spaces in High-Rise Residential Developments

Eizenberg

Sasson

Shilon

2019

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High-rise housing complexes (HRHCs) are a prominent trend in urban development. They generate new configurations of open green spaces, thus creating a new set of human-environment relations and a new constellation of urban landscapes. However, little attention has been devoted by the literature to these new spatial configurations and the urban experience they offer. Focusing on the spaces between buildings, this research article examines the urban morphology of these large urban developments and how they are being experienced by residents. Based on morphological analysis, we propose a set of outputs with which to discern and evaluate various characteristics of these new spaces. Namely, a typology of HRHCs complexes, three evaluation indexes, and a green/gray nolli map. Drawing on morphological analysis, the research discusses the role of green spaces of HRHCs in the experience of residents. We portray different tensions arising from the residents’ experience based on walking interviews and propose how these tensions are connected to the morphology of space. Juxtaposing the morphological and qualitative topological analyses, we focus on the way that different planning aspects of HRHCs’ open spaces might foster everyday use and function as well as attitudes and feelings.

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Section: Urban Morphology and Hrhcsmentioning

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Section: Urban Morphology and Hrhcsmentioning

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Urban Morphology and Qualitative Topology: Open Green Spaces in High-Rise Residential Developments

Eizenberg

Sasson

Shilon

2019

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“…Global audiences were primed to accept these representations of Melbourne through the generic mobility of building types whereby towers signal their functional use and thus project the noted place-making strategies that affect reimagining of urban space (see Nethercote, 2018). Other representational practices also helped cement this association of Melbourne's vertical expansion with modernity, prosperity and urban liveability, such as architectural and expert commentary, even when local realities (described above) diverge from this portrayal.…”

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“…The subtext of these planning accounts is the problematic triumph of the market over a 'backseat' state, with political practice explained by the hegemony of persuasive neoliberal ideologies, namely: more markets and less state interference (Buxton et al, 2012: 114;Buxton et al, 2016: 153) This article contributes to these planning critiques of Melbourne's vertical expansion by attending to the political economies of this development. It applies a conceptual framework for residential vertical urbanisation informed by heterodox political economy and critical geography, and constructed via intertextual theorisation (Nethercote, 2018). The first section summarises this framework, and this provides the conceptual and theoretical grounding for the examination of high-rise Melbourne that follows.…”

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Melbourne’s vertical expansion and the political economies of high-rise residential development

Nethercote

2019

Urban Studies

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This article advances understandings of Melbourne’s dramatic vertical expansion over the last decade by attending to the political economies of its high-rise housing development. Melbourne’s major high-rise development in the wake of the financial crisis represents a radical yet poorly understood departure from the city’s traditional patterns of suburban development. This article applies an existing conceptual framework for residential vertical urbanisation informed by heterodox political economy and critical geography. Drawing on secondary sources supplemented by supply-side stakeholder perspectives, the analysis shows how Melbourne’s high-rise development assisted in syphoning significant investor capital into the city. This not only expanded the local housing stock but, in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis and later, amid ongoing economic uncertainty, Melbourne’s high-rise construction served both economic and geopolitical/symbolic functions in the city’s ongoing inter-urban competition for hyper mobile flows of capital and highly-skilled workers. Large apartment projects fuelled the Victorian economy and filled state coffers through property-related revenue. Meanwhile, the city’s dramatic vertical expansion helped project a powerful image of Melbourne around the world. Its crane-filled skyline heralded a thriving economy, and its new thicket of towers rendered a striking impression of urbane high-density living. Together these representations helped promote Melbourne as a vibrant, desirable place to live, work, and invest. Looking beyond the planning failures and planning politics identified in planners’ critiques of Melbourne’s vertical expansion, this article showcases the state’s considerable stakes in this development, and its role in smoothing the way for this expansion to occur.

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“…Practices in this space, which are performed by mobile bodies carrying mobile technologies, transform people’s experience of the spaces they inhabit (De Souza, 2006). Alongside the technologization of cities, a vertical turn in urbanism suggests that the scale of cities is growing vertically, and the new volumetric cities include more large-scale urban developments (Drozdz et al, 2017), many of which are of high-rise residential projects (Harris, 2015; Nethercote, 2018). Such vertical urbanism, which is founded on pertinent technologies, also offers a new residential experience.…”

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Experiencing vertical living: Affects, atmospheres, and technology

Shilon

Eizenberg

2020

Planning Theory

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This article argues that high-rise residential projects—a dominant form of contemporary cities—are playing a pivotal role in generating new urban experience for city dwellers. Drawing on an affect-based research approach, we empirically examine high-rise residential projects built from 1998 to 2016 in two medium-size cities in central Israel. We address three moments of new affective experience of residents: (1) the view and the practice of viewing; (2) bodies and sound; and (3) bodies becoming a body. The article contributes a conceptual shift to urban planning for studying present-day urban experience. Accordingly, it derives insights to better understand contemporary socio-spatial relations in cities.

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Theorising vertical urbanisation

Cited by 30 publications

References 63 publications

Urban Morphology and Qualitative Topology: Open Green Spaces in High-Rise Residential Developments

Urban Morphology and Qualitative Topology: Open Green Spaces in High-Rise Residential Developments

Melbourne’s vertical expansion and the political economies of high-rise residential development

Experiencing vertical living: Affects, atmospheres, and technology

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