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Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City
Bradley L. Garrett
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Description for Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City
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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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
644g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781685570
SKU
V9781781685570
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Bradley L. Garrett
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. ... Read more
Reviews for Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City
Volatile and extraordinary ... a gonzo road trip.
Robert Macfarlane
Guardian
It's hard not to admire these explorers. Or Garrett himself, who says he wrote part of the book on a laptop while sitting in a crane overlooking Aldgate East.
Sukhdev Sandhu
The Financial Times
A no-nonsense, high-adrenaline, fast-twitch report that requires us to ... Read more
Robert Macfarlane
Guardian
It's hard not to admire these explorers. Or Garrett himself, who says he wrote part of the book on a laptop while sitting in a crane overlooking Aldgate East.
Sukhdev Sandhu
The Financial Times
A no-nonsense, high-adrenaline, fast-twitch report that requires us to ... Read more