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Lucy E. Hewitt

Other affiliations: Newcastle University
Bio: Lucy E. Hewitt is an academic researcher from University of Glasgow. The author has contributed to research in topics: Urban theory & Urban planning. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 11 publications receiving 268 citations. Previous affiliations of Lucy E. Hewitt include Newcastle University.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that critical urban research is characterized by horizontalism and argue that the swathe of recent urban writings have neglected the vertical qualities of contemporary urbanization, and elucidate three areas where vertically oriented research is emerging: the links between Google Earth and urbanism; the connections between social secession and ascension through buildings, walkways and personalized air travel.
Abstract: This article contends that critical urban research is characterized by horizontalism. It argues that the swathe of recent urban writings have neglected the vertical qualities of contemporary urbanization. The article’s introductory section elaborates this argument in detail. The paper then elucidates three areas where vertically oriented research is emerging. These encompass: the links between Google Earth and urbanism; the connections between social secession and ascension through buildings, walkways and personalized air travel; and the links between verticalized surveillance and urban burrowing.

187 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a reading of the dialogue between the representations of vertical urban life that have featured in landmark works of 20th-century science fiction literature and key themes in contemporary urban analysis is presented.
Abstract: This paper seeks to intersect two recent trends in urban research. First, it takes seriously the recognition that established traditions of research concerned with urban space have tended to privilege the horizontal extension of cities to the neglect of their vertical or volumetric extension. Second, the paper contributes to the resurgence of interest among social scientists in the validity of fiction – and especially speculative or science fiction – as a source of critical commentary and as a mode of knowledge that can exist in close reciprocity with non-fictional work. From these two starting points the paper develops a reading of the dialogue between the representations of vertical urban life that have featured in landmark works of 20th-century science fiction literature and key themes in contemporary urban analysis.

45 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of evidence relating to the history of local civic associations to address the temporally and geographically variable relationship between state and civil society is presented, focusing particularly on the historical development of participative practices.
Abstract: This paper uses a review of evidence relating to the history of local civic associations to address the temporally and geographically variable relationship between state and civil society. We focus particularly on the historical development of participative practices, thus also contributing to contemporary debate about the potentials of increased community involvement in place-making. The paper has three primary purposes. First, we assess the role that local associations have played in advancing planning and conservation agendas. Second, we discuss the differing modes of participation that are most visible in the work of local groups. Third, we use a focus on the discussions of participation that took place in the late 1960s, which raised explicit questions about the relations between local state and civil society, to explore a series of problematics relating to the promise and the practice of participation. We argue that in seeking to understand both the past and the present of local associational involv...

27 citations

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TL;DR: Civic societies as a widespread part of the amenity lobby have been explored in this article, focusing on the emergence and growth of civic societies before 1960, focusing particularly on their articulation of social and spatial interconnection and their use of a prescriptive urban aesthetic.
Abstract: We currently know civic societies as a widespread part of the amenity lobby, yet their history is little explored Focusing on the emergence and growth of civic societies before 1960, this article examines some of that history The first section provides a background context, linking civic groups to shifting ideas about architecture and space, and to reform movements of the nineteenth century The second section explores the growth in numbers of associations and their memberships The third section develops a discussion of the ideas and activities of societies, focusing particularly on their articulation of social and spatial interconnection, their use of a prescriptive urban aesthetic and their political influence

12 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine commitment to the regional development of London as it emerged among individuals and groups interested in urban planning in the early 20th century and suggest that the regional imagination was central to the later development of the city.
Abstract: This article examines commitment to the regional development of London as it emerged among individuals and groups interested in urban planning in the early twentieth century. Following a brief account of growth and reform in the capital during the nineteenth century, this article focuses on the development of debates about planning the metropolis in the first two decades of the century, exploring practical initiatives such as the Town Planning Conference held in 1910 and the production of The London Society's Development Plan for Greater London during the years of the First World War. London's associational culture was central in generating and hosting discussions about the future of the city during this period and the article provides an indication of the extent of overlapping memberships between groups such as the Royal Institute of British Architects, The London Society and the Town Planning Institute. In conclusion, this article suggests that the regional imagination, central to the later development ...

11 citations


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Book Chapter
01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: In this article, Jacobi describes the production of space poetry in the form of a poetry collection, called Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated and unedited.
Abstract: ‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.

7,238 citations

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Stuart Elden1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on the emergent literature on vertical geopolitics and Peter Sloterdijk's work on spheres, but also look at what happens below the surface, with a particular focus on tunnels.

503 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argue that the ocean is an ideal spatial foundation for addressing these challenges since it is indisputably voluminous, stubbornly material, and unmistakably undergoing continual reformation, and that a "wet ontology" can reinvigorate, redirect and reshape debates that are all too often restricted by terrestrial limits.
Abstract: This paper expands on recent attempts to destabilise the static, bordered, and linear framings that typify human geographical studies of place, territory, and time. In a world conceptualised as open, immanent, and ever-becoming, scholars have turned away from notions of fixity towards fluidity and flow, and, in so doing, have developed networked, ‘flat’ ontologies. Recent attempts have gone further, challenging the horizontalism inherent in such approaches by opening up a vertical world of volume. In this paper we contend that such approaches are still somewhat lacking. The vertical element of volume is all too often abstract and dematerialised; the emphasis on materiality that is typically used to rectify this excess of abstraction tends to reproduce a sense of matter as fixed and grounded; and the temporality that is employed to reintroduce ‘motion’ to matter has the unintended effect of signalling a periodised sense of time that minimises the chaotic underpinnings and experiences of place. We argue that the ocean is an ideal spatial foundation for addressing these challenges since it is indisputably voluminous, stubbornly material, and unmistakably undergoing continual reformation, and that a ‘wet ontology’ can reinvigorate, redirect, and reshape debates that are all too often restricted by terrestrial limits.

420 citations

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Hedvig Ördén1
11 Dec 2013
TL;DR: Cities Under Siege as discussed by the authors describes a world where "cordoned-off security zones, walling, tracking, targeting, and biometrics have become part of ur...
Abstract: Cities Under Siege begins by painting an Orwellian picture of our times. We live in a world where ‘cordoned-off security zones, walling, tracking, targeting’ and ‘biometrics’ have become part of ur...

242 citations