This article brings together a critical analysis of contemporary vertical urbanism with literature on class processes and sociocultural geographies of home. It examines how hotel imaginaries in high-rise real estate work to reshape and reinforce class distinction and discusses the implications for home and belonging in the city. The argument is developed through an analysis of two recently built apartment developments in Australia, with particular attention to developers’ and residents’ narratives. Vertical urbanization stands in contrast to Australia’s predominantly low-density metropolitan regions, at odds with the “Great Australian Dream” of a suburban stand-alone house. Hotel-inspired features, spaces, discourses, and practices enable middle-class apartment residents to forego an entrenched sense of what home and belonging in the city mean while reaffirming residents’ social distinction aspirations and developers’ financialization strategies. Within this context, developers, architects, and residents take inspiration from hotels to normalize apartment living, tapping into residents’ self-identification as well-traveled, cosmopolitan citizens. We show that the set of relations and encounters arising from the blurring of hotels and homes destabilizes tenure categories and redraws classed boundaries around narratives of transience, estrangement, and placelessness. We conclude by discussing the role of hotel imaginaries in the exacerbation of sociospatial divisions and urban inequalities.

本文将对当代垂直城市主义的批判性分析与关于阶级过程和家庭社会文化地理的文献结合起来。它考察了高层房地产中的酒店想象如何重塑和加强阶级区别，并讨论了对城市家庭和归属感的影响。该论点是通过对澳大利亚两个最近建成的公寓开发项目的分析得出的，特别关注开发商和居民的叙述。垂直城市化与澳大利亚主要的低密度大都市区形成鲜明对比，与郊区独立住宅的“伟大的澳大利亚梦”相悖。受酒店启发的特色、空间、话语、和实践使中产阶级公寓居民放弃对城市的家和归属感的根深蒂固的感觉，同时重申居民的社会差异愿望和开发商的金融化战略。在此背景下，开发商、建筑师和居民从酒店中汲取灵感，使公寓生活正常化，利用居民作为旅行丰富的国际化公民的自我认同。我们表明，由于酒店和家庭的模糊而产生的一系列关系和遭遇破坏了土地使用权类别的稳定性，并围绕短暂、疏远和无处所的叙述重新划定了分类界限。最后，我们讨论了酒店想象在加剧社会空间分歧和城市不平等中的作用。