Planning and the High-Rise Neighbourhood: Debates on Vertical Cities

Brian Webb and James T. White
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Brian Webb: Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK
James T. White: Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, UK

Urban Planning, 2022, vol. 7, issue 4, 208-212

Abstract: This editorial introduces the thematic issue on “Vertical Cities: The Development of High-Rise Neighbourhoods.” It outlines the lack of understanding about high-rise development in cities around the world and argues for a continued need to further interrogate concepts of verticality beyond single towers and towards a finer grain examination of high-rise neighbourhoods. The editorial introduces four interconnected themes that begin to address this phenomenon—socio-demographic challenges, planning discourses, high-rise legacies, and alternative conceptions of verticality—and highlights how the various articles in this thematic issue explore these critical areas of enquiry. It concludes with a call for future research to delve deeper into the planning challenges presented by high-rise neighbourhoods in the 21st-century city and, critically, the contribution that high-rise urban form makes to urban sustainability.

Keywords: high-rise; neighbourhoods; planning; vertical cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.17645/up.v7i4.6357

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