Inside High-Rise Housing: Securing Home in Vertical Cities

Megan Nethercote's book explores the social and territorial dynamics of private vertical communities, revealing how legal and physical architectures fuse to jeopardize residents' experience of home and stigmatize renters. It highlights the overlooked social segregation and urban fragmentation in high-rise developments and raises questions about the condominiums' prospects as cities sprawl skywards and private renting expands.

Format: Hardback
Length: 282 pages
Publication date: 30 June 2022
Publisher: Bristol University Press

Condominium and comparable legal architectures enable vertical urban growth, but do we truly comprehend the social ramifications of restructuring city land ownership in this manner? Geographer and architect Megan Nethercote delves into the condo tower to uncover the hidden social and territorial dynamics of private vertical communities. Drawing on residents' experiences of Australian high-rise living, this book reveals how legal and physical architectures intertwine in ways that jeopardize residents' sense of home and stigmatize renters. As cities expand vertically and private renting proliferates, this compelling geographic analysis of property identifies high-rise developments that are overlooked in terms of social segregation and urban fragmentation, and poses bold questions about the condominiums' prospects.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529216288