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.[1]

Although both verticalization and densification processes in cities can provide several advantages, such modifications in the urban landscape were implemented extremely fast, especially after the Second World War.[2]

In order to increase densities, urban housing policies encouraged new forms of vertical building.[3] The process of verticalization is also related to consumer culture and symbols of power.[4]

References

1. Thung, Tanja Michaela (2009). Vertikalisierung im brasilianischen Wohnungsbau : Analyse von innerstädtischen Hochhaus-Quartieren in Goiânia. Dissertation.
2. Krüger, Eduardo; Suga, Mauro (2009). Recommendations of Height Restrictions for Urban Canyons in Curitiba, Brazil.
3. Burgess, Rod (1992). Latin America urban housing Policies in the modernization period. In: Carmona, Marisa. Urban restructuring and deregulations in Latin America.
4. Machado, JR; Méndes, CM. (2003). O processo de verticalização do centro de Maringá-PR, Brasil.