Explore everything
Subtitle: place-hacking the city
By: Bradley L. Garrett
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781781681299
Subjects: Travel; Urban geography
Description: "What does it feel like to find the city's edges, to explore its hidden tunnels and scale its skyscrapers? In Explore Everything, Bradley L Garrett tells the story of his adventures with the London Consolidation Crew, an infamous urban exploration collective, as they cross boundaries, uncover ruins and experience the city in new ways that shatter conventions of everyday life. In a series of narratives, including stories of how the LCC found the lost underground stations of London, discovered abandoned bunkers and ruins in Eastern Europe and scaled the tallest buildings in London, Paris, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit and Las Vegas, Garrett explores the various motivations for illicit trespass and what it might mean. The book is a passionate manifesto for rights to the city as well as new ways of belonging in and understanding the metropolis"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The UE scene; title: The ruins of history; title: Capturing transition; title: The rise of an infiltration crew; title: Grails of the underground; title: Hacking the New World; title: Crowds and cuffs.