Inside High-Rise Housing: Securing Home in Vertical Cities

Front Cover\nInside High-Rise Housing: Securing Home in Vertical Cities\nCopyright information\nTable of contents\nPreface\nIntroduction\n	Colonize the skies\n	Property in condominium: from legal to lay perspectives\n	Condo towers as propertied space\n	Examining the condo home\n	About this book\n	Making the condo home\n	Book structure\nPart I The Private Unit\n	3 ‘You’re Not Supposed to Do That’\n		‘The washing police’\n		Decorating by the book\n		Short on space\n		High maintenance\n		Local working rules\n	4 ‘I’ll Close My Blinds’\n		‘Like living in an aquarium’\n		Teddy bears and cigarette butts\n		‘They’re not meant to smoke’\n		Vacuuming at midnight\n		Territorial incursions\nPart II Shared Infrastructure and Amenities\n	5 ‘It’s the Building’s Wiring Problem’\n		Pipes, cables and rubbish chutes\n		In/egress\n		Lifts\n		Circulation frictions\n	6 ‘She’s Sort of Made It Her Own’\n		‘You could watch their TV, for goodness’ sake!’\n		‘It’s always the same people using those areas!’\n		‘You can park there all day and never get booked’\n		‘They look so nice but…’\n		Annexing and withdrawing\n	Conclusion: Securing Home in Verticalizing Cities\n		Condo homes at risk\n			Threats to home as dominion\n			Threats to home as belonging\n			An anticommons risk\n		Condo city futures\n		Better vertical homes\n		A city home for all\nAppendix: Fieldwork Notes\nReferences\nIndex\nBack Cover