Manhattanization

The New York borough of Manhattan , from which the term is derived

A high density of skyscrapers in São Paulo , Brazil . The city has the third largest number of buildings on the planet.

Shiodome Area in Tokyo , Japan

Manhattanization [ manhatani'zi: ʀʊŋ ] (English Manhattanization ) is a neologism that describes the rapid vertical urban growth of a city center. It is a pejorative term used primarily by critics of the skyscrapers in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s that blocked the view of the mountains. If an attempt is made to build a district similar to Manhattan in large cities , this is known as Manhattanization. The term Manhattanization continued to refer to the construction bubble in Las Vegas and Miami between 2003 and 2008, which resulted in over 50 skyscrapers in the downtown area.

In connection with the building boom in Santiago de Chile, the term "Sanhattan" was coined. In the Hispanic language area, the term manhattanización was also used for the modernization processes in Madrid.

See also

• Brusselsization
• Vancouverism (Vancouverism)
• Center formation (city formation)

literature

• R. Frey: Economy of the urban mobility In: vdf Hochschulverlag AG 1994 ( online ).
• R. Schneider-Sliwa: Hyper-Ghettos' in American cities: Living spaces and construction principle of the urban underclass In: Geographische Zeitschrift 1997 ( online ).
• O. Kuehne inscriptions of power, fear and longing in urban land hybrids Los Angeles In: Stadt - Landschaft - Hybriditaet 2012 ( Online ).
• M. Braunger California in: DuMont Reiseverlag ( online ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hubble Smith : 'Manhattanization' of Las Vegas . In: Las Vegas Review-Journal . May 22, 2005, archived from the original on November 14, 2012 ; accessed on July 27, 2019 (English, original website no longer available). 
2. ^ The Manhattanization of Miami . Archived from the original on August 16, 2009. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 8, 2009. 
3. ↑ SantiagodeChile.com: Sector financiero de Santiago de Chile . Archived from the original on January 5, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 29, 2013. 
4. ↑ MANHATTANIZACIÓN DE MADRID ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish)