Global Undergrounds - Exploring Cities Within

As the world rapidly urbanizes, its cities sink themselves into the ground in sprawling tendons of tunnels - conduits for transport, utilities, communication, shelter and storage. The excavation of these spaces, at ever-increasing depths and speed, has changed our lives in ways that we tend to take for granted. This is the rst book to chart the global reach of urban underground spaces, bringing together a collection of 80 stories of subterranean sites around the world. The book draws out the extraordinary range of meanings suggested by urban underground spaces, whether their power as places of hope, fear, memory, labour and resistance, or their capacity to evoke both long histories and futures in the making.Illustrated with often breathtaking photographs, Global Undergrounds creates a new sense of the richness and global diversity of urban underground spaces. Its breadth and depth will appeal to all those who are engaged with these spaces: from urban planners, geographers, architects and engineers to urban explorers, photographers and anyone who encounters underground spaces in their cities. Indeed, we inhabit a world where the material stuff beneath our feet is constantly in ux, where layer upon layer of things, people and substances circulate, dream and dwell.

About the author

Paul Dobraszczyk is an architectural writer and a lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. His books include Future Cities (2019) and Animal Architecture (2023), both published by Reaktion Books, as well as Architecture and Anarchism (2021).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 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).

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Paul Dobraczyk, Paul Galvis Dobraczyk, Dobraczyk Paul, Paul Dobraszczyk, Carlos Galvis, Carlos Lopez Galvis, Carlos López Galvis, Galvis Carlos Lopez, Bradley Garret, Bradley L. Garret, Garret Bradley L., Bradley L. Garrett
• Assisted by: Dobraszczyk Paul (Editor), Carlos López Galvis (Editor), Garrett Bradley L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781780235769
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-576-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Architecture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, ARCHITECTURE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban & municipal planning, Human Geography, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Settlement, urban and rural geography