Verticalisation: la hauteur privatisée

Verticalization crosses eras and social contexts, it allows us to think about the question of height in the production of space. Logics of power and competition tend to engender a vertical secession and to reinforce the social inequalities linked to capitalism throughout the world. The towers materialize interurban rivalries and crystallize the social relations and financial flows specific to urban capitalism. It is in this context that verticalization is experienced on a daily basis by a multiplicity of actors and actresses who design, live, and work in these places. This phenomenon can nevertheless also make the city fairer and more accessible, and is not limited to a privatisation of the height by the upper classes: it also concerns public buildings at the inauguration of the first vertical public school in Melbourne in 2018. designed to accommodate 450 schoolchildren, and whose heart is a stepped staircase allowing better meeting and interaction, embodies the objectives of innovation and equality in the field of education. The form therefore does not prejudice to inhabit it: both selective and inclusive projects can be based on verticalization (In urbanism, verticalization is the rapid increase of inner city apartment high-rise buildings, resulting in the development of "vertical" city parts and urban densification.). Depending on the target audiences and uses, this can help make the city more hospitable on the scale of the building (by sharing common spaces), but also more widely (by producing an offer of additional housing for market segments already present.