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• Title:Vertical : the city from satellites to bunkers / Stephen Graham.
  
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• Author/Creator:Graham, Stephen, 1965- author.
  
• Published/Created:London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2016.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HT371 .G69 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Cities and towns--Growth.
  Land use, Urban.
  Space (Architecture)--Social aspects.
  
• Description:xiii, 402 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"From the penthouse to the sewers--the political geography of the vertical city Vertical is a brilliant re-imagining of the world we live in. Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map. In Vertical Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level, calling for a new understanding of our surroundings that takes into account above and below: why Dubai has been built to be seen from GoogleEarth; how the superrich in Sao Paulo live their penthouse lives far from the street; why London billionaires build vast subterranean basements rather than move house. Vertical will make you look at the city anew: from the viewfinders of drones, satellites, from the top of skyscrapers, at street-level and from underground bunkers: this is a new politics of space and geography"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781781687932 (hardback)
  1781687935 (hardback)
  9781781689967 (US ebk)
  9781781689950 (UK ebk)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. One Above
  1. Satellite: Enigmatic Presence
  2. Bomber: Death from Above
  3. Drone: Robot Imperium
  4. Helicopter: Direct Arrival
  5. Favela: Tenuous City
  6. Elevator/Lift: Going Up
  7. Skyscraper: Vanity and Violence
  8. Housing: Luxified Skies
  9. Skywalk/Skytrain/Skydeck: Multilevel Cities
  10. Air: Lethal Domes
  pt. Two Below
  11. Ground: Making Geology
  12. Basement/Cellar: Urban Undergrounds
  13. Sewer: Sociology and Shit
  14. Bunker/Tunnel: Subsurface Sanctuaries
  15. Mine: Extractive Imperialism on the Deep Frontier.