Geographies of the urban underground

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.

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