La ciudad vertical desde abajo: Un análisis relacional entre construcción en altura, subterráneos y movilidad

Dhan Zunino Singh

Authors

Dhan Zunino Singh Instituto de Estudios sobre la Ciencia y la Tecnología (IESCT), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3694-8659

Keywords:

mobility, vertical urbanism, underground, segregation

Abstract

This article offers a relational reading of modern urban verticalization by exploring the links between high-rise buildings, subterranean infrastructures, and circulation. Through the analysis of images, plans, and ideas from modern urbanism, it examines spaces and technical artifacts that shape a notion of “vertical urbanism” in which mobility and spatial stratification unfold both above and below ground. Using the concept of circulation as an organizing principle of the modern city, the article explores the imaginaries and technologies that enabled the three-dimensional expansion of urban space. It proposes the concept of vertical urbanism as a tool to include and analyze the vertical city not only in its upward growth, but also in its subterranean development.

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Author Biography

Dhan Zunino Singh, Instituto de Estudios sobre la Ciencia y la Tecnología (IESCT), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina.

Licenciado en Sociología. Doctor en Historia. Profesor adjunto en la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ). Investigador Independiente del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Instituto de Estudios sobre la Ciencia y la Tecnología (IESCT) (UNQ). Roque Sáenz Peña 352, Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina (B1876BXD).

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