A growing body of work has highlighted the centrality of verticality to the making of contemporary urbanism, pushing scholars to begin conceptualising inequality, politics, and planning as multi‐scalar in nature. This paper builds off these interventions to argue that verticality should be understood as a fragile and unstable achievement, a fragility heightened when the oft‐taken for granted workings of the state and private sector, which enable the appearance of verticality as a seamless achievement, fail. Drawing on research conducted in Luanda, Angola, this paper explores how residents, planners, and real estate developers discuss the difficulties of maintaining the experience, materiality, and imaginations of verticality as embodied in the architectural form of the high‐rise. The paper shows that in the context of ongoing urban decay and the seeming abnegation of most state responsibility for provision, urban residents are forced to engage in the production of a DIY verticality—constantly patching and repairing buildings to keep them viable, actions which in turn pull them into relationships of privatized belonging with the city. As such, the paper argues that the material politics of the high‐rise in Luanda both highlights the fragility at the heart of verticality as well as the shifting forms of privatized belonging immanent to this fragility.

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DIY纵向性：罗安达的物质政治

越来越多的工作突显了垂直性对当代都市主义的形成的中心作用，促使学者开始将不平等，政治和规划概念化为本质上的多尺度。本文在这些干预措施的基础上提出，认为垂直性应理解为脆弱而不稳定的成就，而当国家和私营部门的理所当然的经常工作（使垂直性作为无缝的成就出现）失败时，脆弱性就会加剧。 。本文基于在安哥拉罗安达进行的研究，探讨了居民，规划师和房地产开发商如何讨论维持高层建筑形式所体现的经验，实质性和垂直性想象的困难。该论文表明，在持续的城市腐烂和大多数国家规定的供不应求的背景下，城市居民被迫从事DIY垂直性的生产-不断修补和修复建筑物以保持其生存能力，而这些行动反过来又将他们拉入与城市私有化的关系。因此，本文认为罗安达高层建筑的物质政治既凸显了垂直性核心的脆弱性，也凸显了这种脆弱性所固有的私有化形式的转变。这些行为反过来又将他们拉进与城市私有化的关系。因此，本文认为罗安达高层建筑的物质政治既凸显了垂直性核心的脆弱性，也凸显了这种脆弱性所固有的私有化形式的转变。这些行为反过来又将他们拉进与城市私有化的关系。因此，本文认为罗安达高层建筑的物质政治既凸显了垂直性核心的脆弱性，也凸显了这种脆弱性所固有的私有化形式的转变。