Abstract:
Modern Australian cities and their vast populations spread across our ubiquitously flat suburban plains that seem to go on forever. Into the actual horizontality of our contemporary urban spaces, Australians have long projected a rich and soaring structure of vertical imaginaries replete with ‘tops’, ‘middles’ and ‘bottoms’. Into this collective metaphoric imagination, an old discourse and an iconography of ‘the underclass’ has recently returned.
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