Format:
1 online resource (278 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781780236117
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Cover -- Global Undergrounds Exploring Cities within -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- Preface: Global Undergrounds -- Introduction: Exploring Cities Within -- Origins -- 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 -- Absurd Space: Williamson Tunnels, Liverpool -- Hidden Labour: Broad Street Subway, Philadelphia -- Salt of a Mining Cathedral: Zipaquirá, Colombia -- Human Life Underground: Vale un Potosí, Bolivia -- Infrastructural Fetishism: York Metro Extension, Toronto -- Wares, Rights and Stars: Delhi's Metro and Bazar -- Dwelling -- Underground Outback: Coober Pedy, Australia -- Beneath the Neon: Flood Channels, Las Vegas -- Death Squads and Firebombs: Sewers of Bogotá -- Mateship Below: Melbourne Drains -- Class Dividers: Lower Wacker Drive, Chicago -- Diggers and Deserters: Odessa Catacombs -- Refuse -- Into the Vortex: Brighton Sewers -- Waste and Work: New York City Sewers -- Lost Undergrounds: Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, New York -- Repressed Wastes: London's Sewers -- Burying Incomprehensible Horror: Yucca Mountain Nuclear Storage -- Memory -- 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 -- Haunted Spaces: Edinburgh's Medieval Vaults -- Visiting the Dead: London's Victorian Catacombs -- Temporal Disjunctions: Abandoned London Underground -- Adopting the Dead: Fontanelle Cemetery, Naples
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Communist Ghosts: Plovdiv Seismological Lab -- Orpheus in the Air-raid Shelter: Underground Theatre, Prague -- Fear -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- As Above, So Below: Paris Catacombs -- Cracks in the System: Antwerp Pre-metro -- Urban Layers: Athens -- Secret City: Burlington, Wiltshire -- Under the Ice: Polar Undergrounds -- The City and the City: Underground Seattle -- Edges -- Urban Rhythms: St Petersburg Metro -- Unruly Spaces: Cairo Metro -- Edge of Existence: Abandoned Bratislava Metro
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Mystic Caverns: Grand Central Terminal, New York -- Buried Waterways: Brescia Underground -- Off the Map: Cape Town Tunnels -- Futures -- 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 -- Notes on Contributors -- Photo Acknowledgements
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Print version Galviz, Carlos López Global Undergrounds London : Reaktion Books, Limited,c2016 ISBN 9781780235769
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English
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