***SPAM*** Re: NP: Ad Coelum

[Laura Kelber]

The concept of air rights in NYC - that a short building can sell it's "air space" to a larger building that wants to build higher than it would be allowed to - strikes me as illogical and larcenous. All hail the real estate developers!

http://www.airrightsny.com/?m=1

Laura

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Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

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>I’m working on an essay right now that deals a little with questions of property law, specifically this ad coelum doctrine (idea that land ownership extends infinitely upward and downward), set against the larger notion of the human’s relationship to the sky, the politics of public space on an airplane, some other things…
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>If any of you have any particularly interesting/relevant information or thoughts to send my way, I’d be interested. Especially things that might shed some light on the extent to which this was actually a new idea whenever it first gets supposedly uttered (Wikipedia says some people credit a 13th century Roman scholar named Accursus), the extent to which it represents an evolution in a living person’s public understanding of property ownership/rights at the time, the details around its becoming understood embraced versus becoming officially codified in rule of law, maybe even the evolution of how a human thinks about such things like the sky, the ground, etc... (you might get the sense here I’m trying to get a sense of the human’s sense of frontiers, the way the human first sees a space and sees it as colonizable/ownable…) 
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>One thing I’m trying to understand is the spirit and political context in which this first makes its way into the public’s imagination, perhaps maybe wondering how it might be understood against/in relation to the Renaissance, what currents of change might run through them both and into—eventually—modernism, etc.
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>Is there something kind of populist about this? At least populist relative to whoever was allowed to own land… Or if not populist then does it indicate broader humanistic trends? Or is it strictly a legalistic framework for solving obvious neighbor disputes?
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>Bonus points if anyone has anything particularly interesting or salient to do with the mile high club, or aviatory sex in general.
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>Thanks and lots of love. 
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