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VERTICAL
The City From Satellites to
Bunkers
Stephen Graham
1. Urban Studies and Geography are Far Too Flat!
Why does virtually every household have a tradi:onal ‘flat’ atlas when cross-‐sec:ons going from orbital space through the atmosphere and fast-‐ver:calising ci:es to the subterranean and deep ocean worlds are virtually unknown?
“What would happen if you took geographic thinking and instead of puFng it on a horizontal axis, you
added a ver:cal axis?” Trevor Paglen
2. Origins
3. Satellite: Enigma:c Presence
Raúl Zurita: Ni pena ni miedo (“No Pain, no Fear”)
Google Earth and the Bahraini Uprisings,
2011 by Majority Shias
4. Helicopter: Direct Arrival
5. Lia: Going Up
6. Skyscraper: Vanity and Violence
4. Above and Below: The PoliIcs of Looking
7. Housing: Luxury Skies and
the ‘Logic of Luxury’
‘Mythology of tallness’: “Greater height is naturally equal to
power and dominance” Laura Butera
Um Lugar Ao Sol (A Place in the Sun) Gabriel Mascaro
8. Science Fic:on: Ver:cal Noir
Wizard of Oz and the Burj Khalifa:
Adrian Smith, SOM
“I just remembered the glassy, crystalline structure coming up in the middle of
what seemed like nowhere,”
9. Air: Lethal Domes
10. Ground: Making Geology
11. Mine : Deep FronIer
Thank You!