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The purpose of the book is to assess the process of urban verticalization in different contexts through time, to provide insight into the relationships between highrise design and the way inhabitants negotiate them in their everyday lives, to assess how planners, politicians, and designers negotiate residential highrises in the strategies they develop for building the city and to introduce urban narratives and cartographies. Verticalization, although not new, currently takes place in a very different context than post-1945. Today, highrise residential buildings are more than architectural solutions: they are commodities in a global market where capital flows are fixed by developers and municipalities. Our exploration of residential verticalization is anchored in case studies, revealing different types of local-global negotiations in the design of the city, and has been framed by three interrelated dynamics: first, the complex relationships within the financialization of real estate markets, revealing differences in the types of local-global negotiations in the construction of the neo-liberal city; secondly, the most developed, anchors residential verticalization in the processes of socio-spatial differentiation within cities (mostly identified as gentrification associated to processes of urban renewal and densification; the third, related to readings and interpretations of the urban landscape and social, spatial practices and its iconographic and cartographic representations. This book is of interest to academics, students, planners, architects, and urban studies professionals. It shows that the chosen research object is an increasingly relevant angle of analysis of the contemporary city. It also provides a better knowledge of the processes of residential verticalization, their impact on the privatization of the urban space, and on urban segregation or fragmentation.

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"""Producing and living the high-rise: new contexts, old questions?"" presents a set of very fine and intriguing perspectives as the speculations of our cities are full of contradictions and counterexamples. Without the pitfall of global comparisons, all the observed modes from a multitude of angles, from Environmental Humanities to Speculative Economy, enable us to envision what mobilizes our settlements and mutates our Urban Biospheres. Alban Mannisi Landscape Urbanist /Academic_Scapethical & Custodian Heuristics Institute Director This book, coordinated by Manoel Rodrigues Alves, Manuel Appert, and Christian Mont�s takes up the discussions that were never finished but renewed on the processes of verticalization of the city. This phenomenon gained new momentum from the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to the luxury and elitization of space. The provocative question in its title does not admit a single answer and challenges us from various points of view. In this sense, there are multiple explorations to which it gives rise and which the book reveals through the analysis of the vertical production of the city, how it is lived, and the narratives associated with this process. The 17 chapters provide a set of multi-scalar approaches to various spatialities of the world through entertaining and engaging writing. Special mention deserves the profuse bibliography that accompanies each section of the book, which, in itself, constitutes an invitation and encouragement to the reader to continue the paths that the book opens. ""Producing and living the high-rise: new contexts, old questions?"" is a necessary book that warns us about the implications of vertical gentrification; a call to reflect and analyze our cities, spatialities, landscapes, and people for those of us who live in them, but also for those who can influence this process with their decisions. Dr. Arq. Gabriela C. Pastor Chief Researcher at CONICET, Argentina; Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas �ridas (IADIZA) CCT Mendoza, Argentina; Professor, Faculty of Engineering Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina The book ""Producing and living the high-rise: new contexts, old questions"" is a valuable resource for those interested in the verticalization of residential urbanization and its impact on global contexts. The authors offer a holistic understanding of the relationships between high-rise design, socio-spatial dynamics, and the financialization of real estate markets. This multidisciplinary work not only delves into the complexities of residential verticalization but also presents a nuanced exploration of changing urban landscapes, and it is an indispensable resource for academics, planners, policymakers, and anyone fascinated by the evolving dynamics of our urban environments. Dr. Rodrigo Jos� Firmino Pontif�cia Universidade Cat�lica do Paran� (PUC-PR), Brazil"

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Manoel Rodrigues Alves is a Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo (IAU-USP), Guest Professor at: ETSA-US (Seville, Spain), FADU-UNL (Santa Fe, Argentina), FA-KU Leuven (Brussels, Belgium). Postdoctoral fellow, ETSA-US, University of Seville. PhD, FAU-USP. Master, SMArchs, School of Architecture-MIT. Architect, FAU-Universidade Mackenzie. Coordinator, LEAUC- Laboratory of Contemporary Urban Environment Studies. Recent projects: ""Highrise Living and the Inclusive City,"" USP-Universitè Lyon2 (scientific coordinator and Brazilian coordinator of the ANR-FAPESP Highrise research project); ""Urban Equity in Precarious Territories: participatory socio-spatial actions in Paraisópolis; Public Space, Pandemic and Contemporary City"" (CNPq Productivity Grant). Ad-hoc consultant for Research Institutes and Agencies. Member of Scientific Journal Editorial Committees. Manuel Appert is a Professor at École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Lyon, France, PhD-HDR in Geography and Planning, member of the executive committee of the research laboratory Environnement, Ville, Société (EVS, UMR 5600), part of the team LAURe-EVS and chief editor of the scientific journal Geocarrefour. He has led the Skyline research project on the landscape assessment of tall buildings in Europe and co-edited four special issues on vertical urbanism, in ""Built Environment, Geocarrefour,"" and two volumes for ""Geographies et Cultures."" His main fieldworks are in France and the UK, where he now focuses on the governance of highrise production through the lens of glocalization.

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