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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dobraszczyk, Paul, editor.

Galviz, Carlos López, editor.

Garrett, Bradley L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Underground architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Reaktion Books, 2016.

Summary:

Rest your eyes long enough on the skylines of Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta-even Chicago or London-and you will see the same remarkable transformation, building after building going up with the breakneck speed of twenty-first-century urbanization. But there is something else just as transformative that you won't see: sprawling networks of tunnels rooting these cities into the earth. Global Undergrounds offers a richly illustrated exploration of these subterranean spaces, charting their global reach and the profound-but often unseen-effects they have on human life.             The authors shine their headlamps into an astonishing diversity of manmade underground environments, including subway systems, sewers, communications pipelines, storage facilities, and even shelters. There they find not only an extraordinary range of architectural approaches to underground construction but also a host of different cultural meanings. Underground places can evoke fear or hope; they can serve as sites of memory, places of work, or the hidden headquarters of resistance movements. They 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, crucial to all of us topside who work as urban planners, geographers, architects, engineers, or any of us who take subway trains or enjoy fresh water from a faucet. Indeed, as the authors demonstrate, the constant flux within urban undergrounds-the nonstop circulation of people, substances, and energy-serves all city dwellers in myriad ways, not just with the logistics of day-to-day life but as a crucial part of a city's mythology. 

Contents:

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.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 4, 2016).

ISBN:

1-78023-611-5