Bunkering down? The geography of elite residential basement development in London
Bunkering down? The geography of elite residential basement development in London
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10.1080/02723638.2021.1934628
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2021-06-03
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3.8
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Wilson, Alexander
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作者：
Burrows, Roger;Graham, Stephen;Wilson, Alexander
关于伦敦各地如雨后春笋般涌现的“奢华天空”——为超级富豪提供的“高层”、“超级优质”住房，已经有很多文章。到目前为止，人们对这座地下城市所发生的事情关注较少。“奢华的天空”是精英“垂直”的明显提醒，但我们可能会说，“奢华的穴居人”也是伦敦财富、权力和建筑几何变化的一个重要方面。在本文中，我们详细绘制了自2008年以来伦敦住宅地下室开发的新兴地下地理。事实证明，非常富有的人一直在伦敦的某些地区“藏匿”，其程度迄今为止几乎无人知晓。截至2019年底，已有房屋地下约7328个新住宅地下室获得了规划许可。其中1500多座建筑的规模之大，其所在位置最好被认为是划出了一条独特的富豪“地下室带”。
Much has been written about the "luxified skies" - "high-rise", "super-prime" housing for the super-rich - that has been sprouting up across London. Thus far, less attention has been paid to what has been happening to the subterranean city. The "luxified skies" are highly visible reminders of elite "verticality" but, what we might term, "luxified troglodytism" is also an important aspect of London's changing geometries of wealth, power and architecture. In this paper, we map out in detail the emerging subterranean geography of residential basement development across London since 2008. The very wealthy, it turns out, have been "bunkering down" across certain parts of London, to an extent hitherto little understood. Some 7,328 new residential basements underneath existing houses had been granted planning permission up to late-2019. Over 1,500 of them are of a size that their locations might best be thought of as marking out a distinct plutocratic "basement belt".