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- Title
The High-Rise Home: Verticality as Practice in London.
- Authors
Baxter, Richard
- Abstract
This article investigates the relationship between verticality and home. It develops the idea of 'verticality as practice'. This appreciates verticality not as something that takes place in three-dimensional landscapes, but as the outcome of everyday practical activity. Examining a modernist high-rise estate, the Aylesbury Estate in London, the article identifies and examines a range of vertical practices, illustrating how they are intertwined with home. Vertical practices, such as those associated with the view, help to make a unique and special home, becoming intensely meaningful to residents. However, they also unmake dimensions of home when they interact with the estate's marginality.
- Subjects
LONDON (England); HIGH-rise apartment buildings; HOUSING; HOUSING &; the environment; TALL buildings; HOUSING research
- Publication
International Journal of Urban & Regional Research, 2017, Vol 41, Issue 2, p334
- ISSN
0309-1317
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-2427.12451