Abstract
The article is a kind of “project essay” or “brain storm” concerning skyscraper cities. It proposes different approaches for the study of this subject. Starting with the observation that in Danish traditional houses are lying (ligger), whereas skyscrapers are “standing” (står), different phenomenological and discursive perspectives for the study are sketched. The article also suggests that the analysis of contemporary skyscraper cities can shed new light on more traditional cities in the same way as new media illuminate the characterics of old media.
Highlights
The following article is about a work in progress and can be regarded as a kind of “project-essay” sketching some analytical approaches to the skyscraper city
The article suggests that the analysis of contemporary skyscraper cities can shed new light on more traditional cities in the same way as new media illuminate the characterics of old media
Taking into account that Denmark has no noticeable tradition for very high buildings, the city analyses will mostly deal with selected skyscraper cities or high-rise concentrations in other parts of the world
Summary
The following article is about a work in progress and can be regarded as a kind of “project-essay” sketching some analytical approaches to the skyscraper city. Even though you can argue that the isolated skyscraper aspires to an almost urban scale, it is not single skyscrapers that are the focus for my survey, but the city they are part of and to the creation of which they contribute It is part of the project’s objective to examine the way in which skyscrapers are located in existing cities of substantially different provenance and diverse visual and functional design. The project includes a number of prior assumptions and preliminary theses about the ways we experience the vertical city and its semantic potential In this context, I can only present some of them in a rather generalised form and without going into a more detailed discussion with the literature
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