Underground places can evoke fear or hope they can serve as sites of memory, places of work, or the hidden headquarters of resistance movements. There they find not only an extraordinary range of architectural approaches to underground construction but also a host of different cultural meanings.
The authors shine their headlamps into an astonishing diversity of manmade underground environments, including subway systems, sewers, communications pipelines, storage facilities, and even shelters. 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. But there is something else just as transformative that you won’t see: sprawling networks of tunnels rooting these cities into the earth. 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.
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