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The volumetric city

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ID8101752
AuthorsDonald Mcneill (0000-0002-7672-6110, Western Sydney University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume44
Issue5
Pages815-831
Publication date2019-07-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0309132519863486
OpenAlexW2965117090
LanguageEN
Citations received62
References cited54

This paper sets out a research agenda for the interrogation of urban space as being ontologically constituted by its volumetric properties: that is, the ways in which the arrangement of dimensions and capacities above, below and in relation to the surface of the city are measured. The paper reviews the nascent ‘volumetric turn’ in explaining the production of urban space, noting the growing interest among scholars in understanding how verticality, surface, and the subterranean relate to the power and political economy of cities

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