Planning and the high-rise neighbourhood: debates on vertical cities

Webb, B. and White, J. T. (2022) Planning and the high-rise neighbourhood: debates on vertical cities. Urban Planning, 7(4), pp. 208-212. (doi: 10.17645/up.v7i4.6357)

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.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: White, Professor James
• Authors: Webb, B., and White, J. T.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Studies
• Journal Name: Urban Planning
• Publisher: Cogitatio Press
• ISSN: 2183-7635
• ISSN (Online): 2183-7635
• Published Online: 22 November 2022
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © The Author(s) 2022
• First Published: First published in Urban Planning 7(4): 208-212
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License