Global Undergrounds

Exploring Cities Within

Paul Dobraszczyk, Carlos López Galvis, Bradley L. Garrett (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2016
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78023-576-9 (ISBN)

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A stunning, beautifully illustrated exploration of urban underground spaces, bringing together a collection of 80 subterranean sites from around the world.

Over the last two centuries, the world’s cities have undergone dramatic vertical, above-ground transformations. But at the same time, they have sunk themselves into the ground, in the form of sprawling tendons of tunnels, caverns and bunkers – conduits for transport, utilities and communication or spaces of shelter and storage. Global Undergrounds charts the global reach of urban underground spaces, collecting 80 stories of subterranean sites around the world to reveal the profound – but often unseen – ways they have changed our lives.

Illustrated with breath-taking photographs, this book exposes the remarkable diversity of manmade underground environments, from their astonishing range of architectural approaches to the many cultural meanings they carry, whether as places of hope, fear, memory, labour or political resistance. Undergrounds are places that can tell a city’s oldest stories or foresee its most distant futures; they are places ultimately of both incredible depth and breadth, serving city dwellers not just with the logistics of day-to-day life but as crucial parts of a city’s mythology.

Paul Dobraszczyk (Anthology Editor) Paul Dobraszczyk is a writer and a teaching fellow at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. He is the author of Future Cities (Reaktion, 2019) and co-editor of Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within (Reaktion, 2016). Carlos López Galvis (Anthology Editor) Carlos López Galviz is a lecturer and research fellow at the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University. He is the co-editor of Going Underground: New Perspectives (2013). Bradley L. Garrett (Anthology Editor) Bradley L. Garrett is research fellow in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. His books include Explore Everything: Place-hacking the City (2013) and Subterranean London: Cracking the Capital (2014).

Zusatzinfo	86 illustrations, 75 in colour
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	234 x 168 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-78023-576-3 / 1780235763
ISBN-13	978-1-78023-576-9 / 9781780235769
Zustand	Neuware