Beneath the City Streets
Author | : Peter Laurie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Civil defense |
ISBN | : 9780140033816 |
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Author | : Peter Laurie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Civil defense |
ISBN | : 9780140033816 |
Author | : Benjamin Shepard |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2011-06-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1438436211 |
Focusing on the liberating promise of public space, The Beach Beneath the Streets examines the activist struggles of communities in New York City—queer youth of color, gardeners, cyclists, and anti-gentrification activists—as they transform streets, piers, and vacant lots into everyday sites for autonomy, imagination, identity formation, creativity, problem solving, and even democratic renewal. Through ethnographic accounts of contests over New York City's public spaces that highlight the tension between resistance and repression, Shepard and Smithsimon identify how changes in the control of public spaces—parks, street corners, and plazas—have reliably foreshadowed elites' shifting designs on the city at large. With an innovative taxonomy of public space, the authors frame the ways spaces as diverse as gated enclaves, luxury shopping malls, collapsing piers and street protests can be understood in relation to one another. Synthesizing the fifty-year history of New York's neoliberal transformation and the social movements which have opposed the process, The Beach Beneath the Streets captures the dynamics at work in the ongoing shaping of urban spaces into places of repression, expression, control, and creativity.
Author | : Pamela Jones |
Publisher | : Holt McDougal |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Laurie |
Publisher | : Peter Laurie |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Civil defense |
ISBN | : 9780586050552 |
Author | : Antony Clayton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : London (England) |
ISBN | : 9781905286324 |
This book gives an account of features below London: railways, old and abandoned tunnels, security bases, cables, utility supplies, pneumatic tubes, crypts and wells, disused stations, lost rivers and streams. Inckudes recent developments: Channel Tunnel Rail link to St Pancras, Thames Link, East London Line, Cross rail and projects for water and electricity supply.
Author | : Peter Laurie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Matthew Litwack |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Graffiti |
ISBN | : 9781584235545 |
Only a handful of transit workers, daring explorers and graffiti writers have experienced the full scope of the New York subway system. Beneath The Streets reveals this world for the first time with fantastic photographs captured from throughout the tunnels and byways of the subway. Although it provides service to over 5 million riders every day, the subway is for most a sealed system. Very few of its patrons are aware of the extent of this vast underground infrastructure. The authors of this important historical work first discovered this hidden world in the process of photographing graffiti found below ground in the subway system. Now their riveting documentary work opens up this subterranean maze, including 600 miles of active track as well as abandoned sections and disused stations, for all to experience.
Author | : Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0385531516 |
In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness and excavating the lore and mythology beneath the surface. There is a Bronze Age trackway below the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon graves rest under St. Pauls, and the monastery of Whitefriars lies beneath Fleet Street. To go under London is to penetrate history, and Ackroyd's book is filled with the stories unique to this underworld: the hydraulic device used to lower bodies into the catacombs in Kensal Green cemetery; the door in the plinth of the statue of Boadicea on Westminster Bridge that leads to a huge tunnel packed with cables for gas, water, and telephone; the sulphurous fumes on the Underground's Metropolitan Line. Highly imaginative and delightfully entertaining, London Under is Ackroyd at his best.
Author | : Matthew O'Brien |
Publisher | : Huntington Press Inc |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2007-03-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0929712390 |
Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O’Brien’s adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it’s least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.
Author | : McKenzie Wark |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2015-05-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1781689407 |
Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that the story of the SI now demands to be told in a contemporary voice capable of putting it into the context of twenty-first-century struggles. McKenzie Wark delves into the Situationists’ unacknowledged diversity, revealing a world as rich in practice as it is in theory. Tracing the group’s development from the bohemian Paris of the ’50s to the explosive days of May ’68, Wark’s take on the Situationists is biographically and historically rich, presenting the group as an ensemble creation, rather than the brainchild and dominion of its most famous member, Guy Debord. Roaming through Europe and the lives of those who made up the movement – including Constant, Asger Jorn, Michèle Bernstein, Alex Trocchi and Jacqueline De Jong – Wark uncovers an international movement riven with conflicting passions. Accessible to those who have only just discovered the Situationists and filled with new insights, The Beach Beneath the Street rereads the group’s history in the light of our contemporary experience of communications, architecture, and everyday life. The Situationists tried to escape the world of twentieth-century spectacle and failed in the attempt. Wark argues that they may still help us to escape the twenty-first century, while we still can.