Geographies of the urban underground. Issue 1 (6th December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Connor, Andrea; McNeill, Donald
• Is Part Of: Geography compass. Volume 16:Issue 1(2022)
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• Publication Date: 2021-12-06
• Subjects: governance -- underground city -- urban geography -- vertical -- volumetric; Geography -- Periodicals; Geography -- Research -- Periodicals; 910.5
• DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12601
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1749-8198

Abstract

Abstract: The underground as an active element of spatiality has started to receive increasing attention in the scholarly literature. This paper describes how a growing interest in the vertical and volumetric within urban geography has started to challenge a prevailing 'horizontalism' within geographical conceptualisations of urban space. The paper has three parts. It identifies: the emergence of new approaches to spatial forms based around verticality and volume; concepts of urban governance that take account of the composite material volumes and non‐human agency of the subterranean sphere; and interpretations of the Anthropocene that offer new perspectives on the constitution of the subterranean of cities.