This paper expands our understanding of vertical urbanism, and specifically the experience of home in high-rise housing, by assessing and mobilising a “disorientated geographies” approach. It follows Bissell and Gorman-Murray's recent call for researchers to better account for the logics of disconnection and undoing in geographical inquiry. Building on their exploration of “disorientated geographies,” this paper examines the lived experience of three single men living in high-rise housing to revisit the high-rise as home. It aims to advance prevailing understandings of urban vertical living and more specifically of the processes through which these homes are made and unmade. Drawing on in-depth interviews with apartment dwellers in new high-rise housing in London and Melbourne, we explore residents' loss of orienting relations through their feelings of frustration, restlessness, and disappointment. We consider how these emotional states contribute to destabilise their homes as these three men struggle to comprehend and orient themselves within the socio-spatial environment of the high-rise, and specifically an environment compromised by design and build quality issues. We argue that disorientation provides a useful but undervalued vantage point from which to understand the making and unmaking of vertical homes. In so doing, we foreground and sharpen understandings of the role of verticality, in particular, in these processes of home-unmaking. The contribution of the paper is two-fold. Conceptually, it both expands the application of disorientated geographies into a novel urban setting and broadens its frames of reference by examining other bodily experiences and emotions. Empirically, we advance understandings of the lived experience of vertical urbanisms by drawing new and productive links between verticality and disorientation that move us beyond consideration of purely physiological responses, such as vertigo or dizziness, to high-rise living, to better account for a fuller range of bodily, emotional, and social practices.

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高层住宅拆除过程中的迷失方向

本文通过评估和动员“迷失的地理”方法，扩展了我们对垂直城市主义的理解，特别是高层住宅中的家庭体验。它遵循 Bissell 和 Gorman-Murray 最近呼吁研究人员更好地解释地理调查中断开和撤消的逻辑。在他们对“迷失地理”的探索的基础上，本文考察了三个住在高层住宅中的单身男人的生活经历，以重新审视高层住宅。它旨在促进对城市垂直生活的普遍理解，更具体地说是对这些房屋的建造和拆除过程的理解。通过对伦敦和墨尔本新建高层住宅公寓居民的深入采访，我们探索居民 因沮丧、不安和失望而失去定向关系。我们考虑这些情绪状态如何破坏他们的家园，因为这三个人努力在高层建筑的社会空间环境中理解和定位自己，特别是在设计和建造质量问题影响的环境中。我们认为，迷失方向提供了一个有用但被低估的有利位置，可以从中了解垂直房屋的制作和取消制作。通过这样做，我们突出并加深了对垂直性作用的理解，特别是在这些拆家过程中。这篇论文的贡献是双重的。从概念上讲，它既将迷失方向的地理应用扩展到新的城市环境中，又通过检查其他身体体验和情感来拓宽其参考框架。从经验上讲，我们通过在垂直性和迷失方向之间建立新的和富有成效的联系来推进对垂直城市化生活体验的理解，这些联系使我们不再考虑纯粹的生理反应，如眩晕或头晕，转为高层生活，更好地解释更充分身体、情感和社会实践的范围。