Published
Jun 30, 2022Page count
282 pagesISBN
978-1529216288Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jun 30, 2022Page count
282 pagesISBN
978-1529216301Imprint
Bristol University Press
Inside High-Rise Housing
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.
“A valuable and original contribution to understanding the important contemporary issue of high-rise housing, this book advances scholarship on property and the home by foregrounding residents’ everyday experiences.” Sarah Blandy, University of Sheffield
Megan Nethercote in ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University.
Introduction
1. Verticalizing Cities
2. The Condo Home
Part 1: The Private Unit
3. ‘You’re Not Supposed to Do That’
4. ‘I’ll Close My Blinds’
Part 2: Shared Infrastructure and Amenities
5. ‘It’s the Building’s Wiring Problem’
6. ‘She’s Sort of Made It Her Own’
Conclusion: Securing Home in Verticalizing Cities
