eprintid: 10177341 rev_number: 16 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/17/73/41 datestamp: 2023-09-25 10:44:23 lastmod: 2023-12-22 12:22:06 status_changed: 2023-09-25 10:44:23 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 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 note: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). 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 document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177341/1/Harris_harris-wolseley-2023-vertical-horizons-dealing-with-luxury-urban-skies.pdf