Vertical – Stephen Graham A little more intense than Language of Cities, Vertical looks at how our cities are now virtually mapped for control; how tech is constantly manipulating and reshaping our urban environments, telescopically scaling time and space. ‘Black Satellites’, urban helicopters, drones, elevator and mapping technology; and then all the way down into urban bunkers, the sedulous Stephen Graham (Professor of Cities at Newcastle University) covers every angle, looking at how state bodies focus resources to rein in and corral perceived ‘threats’. Thus the frightening process of feeding back ideas from battle zones in order to facilitate metropolitan coercion. A less terrifying fact, however, reveals how the historic technology used in mining in the nineteenth century was incorporated into emerging skyscraper design ‘The parallels between the processes of using these suites of technologies to dig down to provide the raw materials to construct skyscrapers were not lost on contemporary commentators, “Imagine [the mine] hoisted out of the ground and left standing on the surface” ‘. This book is necessary reading. Graham is a formidable scholar and this is serious stuff, expertly presented
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Vertical – Stephen Graham
A little more intense than Language of Cities, Vertical looks at how our cities are now virtually mapped for control; how tech is constantly manipulating and reshaping our urban environments, telescopically scaling time and space. ‘Black Satellites’, urban helicopters, drones, elevator and mapping technology; and then all the way down into urban bunkers, the sedulous Stephen Graham (Professor of Cities at Newcastle University) covers every angle, looking at how state bodies focus resources to rein in and corral perceived ‘threats’. Thus the frightening process of feeding back ideas from battle zones in order to facilitate metropolitan coercion. A less terrifying fact, however, reveals how the historic technology used in mining in the nineteenth century was incorporated into emerging skyscraper design ‘The parallels between the processes of using these suites of technologies to dig down to provide the raw materials to construct skyscrapers were not lost on contemporary commentators, “Imagine [the mine] hoisted out of the ground and left standing on the surface” ‘. This book is necessary reading. Graham is a formidable scholar and this is serious stuff, expertly presented. #Vertical #verso #libreria #libtriptych #libreriarecommends
Vertical – Stephen Graham
A little more intense than Language of Cities, Vertical looks at how our cities are now virtually mapped for control; how tech is constantly manipulating and reshaping our urban environments, telescopically scaling time and space. ‘Black Satellites’, urban helicopters, drones, elevator and mapping technology; and then all the way down into urban bunkers, the sedulous Stephen Graham (Professor of Cities at Newcastle University) covers every angle, looking at how state bodies focus resources to rein in and corral perceived ‘threats’. Thus the frightening process of feeding back ideas from battle zones in order to facilitate metropolitan coercion. A less terrifying fact, however, reveals how the historic technology used in mining in the nineteenth century was incorporated into emerging skyscraper design ‘The parallels between the processes of using these suites of technologies to dig down to provide the raw materials to construct skyscrapers were not lost on contemporary commentators, “Imagine [the mine] hoisted out of the ground and left standing on the surface” ‘. This book is necessary reading. Graham is a formidable scholar and this is serious stuff, expertly presented. #Vertical #verso #libreria #libtriptych #libreriarecommends
