Producing and living the high-rise: New contexts, old questions?

The purpose of the book is to assess the process of urban verticalization in different contexts through time, to provide insight into the relationships between highrise design and the way inhabitants negotiate them in their everyday lives, to assess how planners, politicians, and designers negotiate residential highrises in the strategies they develop for building the city and to introduce urban narratives and cartographies. Verticalization, although not new, currently takes place in a very different context than post-1945. Today, highrise residential buildings are more than architectural solutions: they are commodities in a global market where capital flows are fixed by developers and municipalities.

Our exploration of residential verticalization is anchored in case studies, revealing different types of local-global negotiations in the design of the city, and has been framed by three interrelated dynamics: first, the complex relationships within the financialization of real estate markets, revealing differences in the types of local-global negotiations in the construction of the neo-liberal city; secondly, the most developed, anchors residential verticalization in the processes of socio-spatial differentiation within cities (mostly identified as gentrification associated to processes of urban renewal and densification; the third, related to readings and interpretations of the urban landscape and social, spatial practices and its iconographic and cartographic representations.

This book is of interest to academics, students, planners, architects, and urban studies professionals. It shows that the chosen research object is an increasingly relevant angle of analysis of the contemporary city. It also provides a better knowledge of the processes of residential verticalization, their impact on the privatization of the urban space, and on urban segregation or fragmentation.

Author: Manoel Rodrigues Alves
Publisher: Vernon Press
Published: 02/23/2024
Pages: 502
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9781648897986

About the Author
Appert, Manuel: - Manuel Appert is a Professor at École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Lyon, France, PhD-HDR in Geography and Planning, member of the executive committee of the research laboratory Environnement, Ville, Société (EVS, UMR 5600), part of the team LAURe-EVS and chief editor of the scientific journal Geocarrefour. He has led the Skyline research project on the landscape assessment of tall buildings in Europe and co-edited four special issues on vertical urbanism, in "Built Environment, Geocarrefour," and two volumes for "Geographies et Cultures." His main fieldworks are in France and the UK, where he now focuses on the governance of highrise production through the lens of glocalization.Rodrigues Alves, Manoel: - Manoel Rodrigues Alves is a Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo (IAU-USP), Guest Professor at: ETSA-US (Seville, Spain), FADU-UNL (Santa Fe, Argentina), FA-KU Leuven (Brussels, Belgium). Postdoctoral fellow, ETSA-US, University of Seville. PhD, FAU-USP. Master, SMArchs, School of Architecture-MIT. Architect, FAU-Universidade Mackenzie. Coordinator, LEAUC- Laboratory of Contemporary Urban Environment Studies. Recent projects: "Highrise Living and the Inclusive City," USP-Universitè Lyon2 (scientific coordinator and Brazilian coordinator of the ANR-FAPESP Highrise research project); "Urban Equity in Precarious Territories: participatory socio-spatial actions in Paraisópolis; Public Space, Pandemic and Contemporary City" (CNPq Productivity Grant). Ad-hoc consultant for Research Institutes and Agencies. Member of Scientific Journal Editorial Committees.