Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City

Garrett, Bradley

“Volatile and extraordinary ... a gonzo road trip.” – Robert Macfarlane, Guardian 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. Reviews “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, Financial Times

Kustantaja: Verso
Sidosasu: Pehmeäkantinen
ean: 9781781685570
Ilmestymisvuosi: 2014