Explore Everything
Place-Hacking the City
Published on 8. October 2013
320 pages
978-1-78168-498-6 (ISBN)
Description
What does it feel like to find the city's edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale unfinished skyscrapers high above the metropolis? Explore Everything reclaims the city, recasting it as a place for endless adventure.
Plotting expeditions from London, Paris, Berlin, Detroit, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Bradley L. Garrett has tested the boundaries of urban security in order to experience the city in ways beyond the everyday. He calls it "place hacking": the recoding of closed, secret, hidden and forgotten urban spaces to make them realms of opportunity. The book is also a manifesto, combining philosophy, politics and adventure, on our rights to the city and how to understand the twenty-first-century metropolis.
Plotting expeditions from London, Paris, Berlin, Detroit, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Bradley L. Garrett has tested the boundaries of urban security in order to experience the city in ways beyond the everyday. He calls it "place hacking": the recoding of closed, secret, hidden and forgotten urban spaces to make them realms of opportunity. The book is also a manifesto, combining philosophy, politics and adventure, on our rights to the city and how to understand the twenty-first-century metropolis.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78168-498-6 (9781781684986)
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Person
Bradley L. Garrett is a writer, photographer and researcher at the University of Oxford. After studying anthropology at the University of California Riverside and working in Australia, Mexico and Hawaii, he became an urban explorer, photographing off-limits urban spaces in both the US and Europe, his exploits have been featured on TV, radio, GQ magazine, the Guardian and the Telegraph. His latest adventures can be followed on www.bradleygarrett.com.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Disclaimer
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 - The UE Scene
- Chapter 2 - The Ruins of History
- Chapter 3 - Capturing Transition
- Chapter 4 - The Rise of an Infiltration Crew
- Chapter 5 - Grails of the Underground
- Chapter 6 - Hacking the New World
- Chapter 7 - Crowds and Cuffs
- Epilogue
- Endnotes
- Glossary
- Index
