eprintid: 10177341
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datestamp: 2023-09-25 10:44:23
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creators_name: Harris, Andrew
creators_name: Wolseley, Tom
title: Vertical Horizons: dealing with luxury urban skies
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F26
keywords: London, luxury urbanism, skyscrapers, the Shard, vertical
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abstract: There has been a conspicuous growth in the height and extent of luxury urban development in the 21st century. This has been accompanied by important critical analyses exploring how this upward construction has created new vertical social divides and landscapes of power. This article argues, however, that there are spatial and methodological limitations to the way luxury urban skies have tended to be framed and pursued. Through a focus on the decisions taken in producing the 2017 meditative film Vertical Horizons by Tom Wolseley, the paper offers an expanded agenda for engagements with elite vertical development. This film juxtaposes views of London and Western Europe’s tallest skyscraper, the Shard, from different vantage points, with contrasting narratives about the building. Vertical Horizons seeks to use its focus on the Shard to open up more imaginative experiments with high-rise landscapes, and better recognition of the potential complicities in responses to the gleaming façades of contemporary urbanisation. The paper posits that more multi-sited, creative and reflective approaches, such as those pursued in Vertical Horizons, are required in efforts at levelling with the social and symbolic power of urban vertical luxification.
date: 2023-12-07
date_type: published
publisher: SAGE Publications
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231206972
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2088757
doi: 10.1177/00420980231206972
lyricists_name: Harris, Andrew
lyricists_id: AJHAR86
actors_name: Harris, Andrew
actors_id: AJHAR86
actors_role: owner
funding_acknowledgements: 2014-AIR-064 [Leverhulme Trust]
full_text_status: public
publication: Urban Studies
citation:        Harris, Andrew;    Wolseley, Tom;      (2023)    Vertical Horizons: dealing with luxury urban skies.                   Urban Studies        10.1177/00420980231206972 <https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231206972>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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