Title & Author:

Global undergrounds : exploring cities within / edited by Paul Dobraszczyk, Carlos López Galviz and Bradley L. Garrett.

Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2016.

Description:

276 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-269).
PREFACE Global Undergrounds, p.9 / Geoff Manauglı -- INTRODUCTION Exploring Cities Within, p.14 / Paul Dobraszczyk, Carlos Lopez Galviz and Bradley L. Garrett -- ORIGINS, p.24 -- Taming the Quagmire: Cloaca Maxima, Rome -- Journey of an Underground Army: Xi'an -- Protective Labyrinths: Sint Petersburg Tunnels, Maastricht -- A Skiff, Fish and Wells: Basilica Cistern, Istanbul -- Old, Deep and Discreet: Cappadocia's Underground Cities -- Under Kingdom: The Layers of Mexico City -- LABOUR, p.40 -- Absurd Space: Williamson Tunnels, Liverpool -- Hidden Labour: Broad Street Subway, Philadelphia -- Salt of a Mining Cathedral: Zipaquira, Colombia -- Human Life Underground: Vale un Potosi, Bolivia -- Infrastructural Fetishism: York Metro Extension, Toronto -- Wares, Rights and Stars: Delhi's Metro and Bazar -- DWELLlNG, p.56 -- Underground Outback: Coober Pedy, Australia -- Beneath the Neon: Flood Channels, Las Vegas -- Death Squads and Firebombs: Sewers of Bogota -- Mateship Below: Melbourne Drains -- Class Dividers: Lower Wacker Drive, Chicago -- Diggers and Deserters: Odessa Catacombs -- REFUSE, p.72 -- Into the Vortex: Brighton Sewers -- Waste and Work: New York City Sewers -- Lost Undergrounds: Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, New York -- Repressed Wastes: Londorı's Sewers -- Burying Incomprehensible Horror: Yucca Mountain Nuclear Storage -- MEMORY, p.88 -- Sinking Histories: Berlin's S- and U-Bahn Tunnels -- Bunker Art: Christian and Karen Boros Collection, Berlin -- Bedrock Memories: Nottingham's Caves -- Remembering the Map: Prestwich Memorial, Cape Town -- Underground Clouds: Hong Kong Data Centres -- Mirror of History: Berlin's Water Tower -- GHOSTS, p.104 -- Haunted Spaces: Edinburgh's Medieval Vaults -- Visiting the Dead: London's Victorian Catacombs -- Temporal Disjunctions: Abandoned London Underground -- Adopting the Dead: Fontanelle Cemetery, Naples -- Communist Ghosts: Plovdiv Seismological Lab -- Orpheus in the Air-raid Shelter: Underground Theatre, Prague -- FEAR, p.120 -- Striving Underground: Stockholm's Atomic Bomb Defences -- Sheltered Lives: Shanghai Civil Defence Shelters -- Remote Shelter: Andersgrotta, Norway -- Defence of the Nation: National Redoubt, Switzerland -- Undergrounds at War: London's Second World War Bunkers -- Tortoises, Oranges and Giant Tunnels: Bunkers, Albania -- Subsurface Terror: Tokyo Chikatetsu.
SECURITY, p.140 -- Dark Tourism and Data Dumps: Reusing Missile Silos in the American West -- Subterranean Insurgency: Joint Tunnel Test Range, Arizona -- Sent Down: Oxford's Prison Tunnels -- Under Control: Metro, Santiago de Chile -- Crossing Borders: Tijuana and San Diego -- Vertical War Zones: Gaza Tunnels -- RESISTANCE, p.155 -- Insurgent Strongholds: The 'Hidden City' of Viengxay -- Defensible Spaces: The Underground Cities of Kinmen and Matsu -- Ideology and Fear: Prague Metro -- Intractable Histories: Moscow's Secret River -- Reverse Modernization: Saw Mill River, New York City -- Remaindered Flows: The Irk Culvert, Manchester -- RENDERINGS, p.174 -- Subterranean Sublimes: Roden Crater, Arizona -- Remaindered Spaces: Manchester's Air-raid Shelters -- Under Construction: Buenos Aires Subte -- Cinematic Space: Vienna's Sewers and The Third Man -- Remaking the Map: Golden Acre, Cape Town -- Encountering Undergrounds: Levitated Mass, Los Angeles -- Cameras and Cleaning Balls: Paris Sewers -- EXPOSURE, p.190 -- As Above, So Below: Paris Catacombs -- Cracks in the System: Antwerp Pre-metro -- Urban Layers: Athens -- Secret City: Burlington, Wiltshire -- Under the lce: Polar Undergrounds -- The City and the City: Underground Seattle -- EDGES, p.213 -- Urban Rhythms: St Petersburg Metro -- Unruly Spaces: Cairo Metro -- Edge of Existence: Abandoned Bratislava Metro -- Mystic Caverns: Grand Central Terminal, New York -- Buried Waterways: Brescia Underground -- Off the Map: Cape Town Tunnels -- FUTURES, p.231 -- Futures Past: Pyongyang Metro -- Sleeping Dragons: Future Ruins of CERN -- Segregating Symbols: Dubai's Metro -- The Great Society: Washington's Metro -- Slow Modernity: Sofia Metro -- Time Underground: The Clock of the Long Now -- After the End: Svalbard Global Seed Vault -- References, p.253 -- Notes on Contributors, p.270 -- Photo Acknowledgements, p.275.

Summary:

"Illustrated with breathtaking photographs, this book exposes the remarkable diversity of man-made underground environments, from their astonishing range of architectural approaches to the many cultural meanings they carry, whether as places of hope, fear, memory, labor 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."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1780235763 (paperback)
9781780235769 (paperback)
9781780236117 (ebook)

Subject:

Underground architecture.
Underground areas History.
Architecture souterraine.
Zones souterraines Histoire.
Underground areas.
Urban Exploration
Unterirdische Welt

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Dobraszczyk, Paul, editor.
López Galviz, Carlos, editor.
Garrett, Bradley L., editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292997
Call No.: BIB 237593
Status: Available