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Author : Alan Hustak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Montréal (Québec)
ISBN : 1550654799
Discusses Montreal's underground city which is a maze of passageways, alleys, atriums, and hallways 32 kilometres long connecting 85 downtown skyscrapers, 10 hotels, 2,000 stores and apartment blocks, and 68 Metro stations.
Author : Mark Ovenden
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781781318942
With over 60 per cent of the world’s population living in cities, the networks beneath our feet – which keep the cities above moving – are more important than ever before. Yet we never truly see how these amazing feats of engineering work. Just how deep do the tunnels go? Where do the sewers, bunkers and postal trains run? And, how many tunnels are there under our streets? Each featured city presents a ‘skyline of the underground’ through specially commissioned cut-away illustrations and unique cartography. Drawing on geography, cartography and historical oddities, Mark Ovenden explores what our cities look like from the bottom up.
Author : John Endicott,Pamela Johnston,Nancy F. Lin
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 1848223587
New ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and inhabit underground space. This book explores how these innovations can help to make our increasingly dense, climate-stressed cities both more resilient and more of a pleasure to live in. While it sets out practical design approaches, Underground Cities is not a technical manual. Designed for everyone with an interest in the future of our cities, it is beautifully illustrated and written in an accessible style that draws on the rich tradition of underworlds, both real and imagined, in art, history and poetry. Global in scope, the book ranges across continents as it surveys the vast expansion in the potential of the underground. The opening section, 'A New Frontier', looks at two pioneering cold-climate cities, Montreal and Helsinki, which developed new uses for the underground from the 1960s on. The closing section, 'Looking Forward', offers glimpses of the city of the future - of what we might be able to achieve in the next 50 or 60 years. Focusing on Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, it shows projects that are going deeper, achieving a greater synergy of uses and preparing the way for new urban forms. In between, it reviews a range of innovative ideas and presents buildings and projects by leading international architects and artists, among them Jun'ya Ishigami, James Turrell, Dominique Perrault and Thomas Heatherwick, which highlight the advances in technology that are making it possible to bring the elements of nature - light, air, vegetation - deep underground. Works include a subterranean oasis, a refuge from the desert heat; a museum extension that deploys light and colour to define space; a multi-modal underground transport hub that evokes the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris, but with an added profusion of plants; and a troglodytic house and restaurant, sunk into the earth to create atmosphere.
Author : Nicholas J. McCamley
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047737484
History of the vast underground arsenals, factories and bunkers built by the British government during WWII and the new uses found for them.
Author : H.L. Humes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307492357
Back in print after nearly fifty years–the acclaimed fiction debut of novelist H. L. Humes, co-founder of The Paris Review “Immensely intelligent and energetic, intensely dramatic and melodramatic, heroically overwritten yet sharp, insightful, and precise, The Underground City is an astonishing book by a writer of abundant gifts whose resurrection is long overdue.” –Peter Matthiessen It is the late 1940s and Paris is in turmoil. A man named Dujardin is sentenced to death for treason, sparking general strikes and threats of riots across the city. In the meantime, John Stone, a war-weary American and former secret agent, finds himself being investigated as a suspected Communist. What has brought these two men to their fates? H.L. Humes spins a thrilling account of the French underground during the last years of World War II, and the events that lead to the Dujardin affair. His many memorable characters include Adriane, loved by both Stone and Carnot, a fanatic Communist; Bruce Sheppard, the American ambassador to France, a statesman of vision and compassion; and Solange Récamier, the sophisticated young Parisian widow who finds meaning in trying to salvage Stone’s broken life. The Underground City displays H.L. Humes’s youthful literary skill and a striking capacity for fast-paced narrative. This is a brilliant tour de force. “A major achievement . . . [The Underground City] attains its full stature in poetry and truth. . . . [This is a] many-sided, absorbing novel, written on a grand scale, that holds the reader’s attention from the first to the last of its many pages.” –New York Herald Tribune “Magnificent . . . [The Underground City] has verisimilitude and scope, action and depth of emotion.” –Chicago Tribune “A work of power, maturity and distinction.” –Newsweek
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540892859
A novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters must deal with mysterious and unexplainable happenings in and around the mine.
Author : Hailey Scragg
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781731643940
Book Features: • 32 pages, about 7 inches x 9 inches • Ages 8-14, Grades 3-8 leveled readers • Easy-to-read pages with vibrant photos • Features before, during, and after reading activities • After-reading questions, memory game, and reading activity included Underground Cities: Did you know some cities are built underground? They could be hidden just beneath our feet! Let's dig deep to uncover where these cities are hiding and the secrets they contain in Underground Cities! Hidden, Lost, And Discovered: Go on an epic journey to explore some of the most interesting places from around the world, their history, and how they were discovered. Some people may not even know they exist! Reading Made Fun: This 32-page nonfiction book for grades 3–8 features eye-catching photos, hidden histories, and fascinating facts about some of the world's most amazing locations. Leveled Books: Discovering the world's intriguing history will engage readers in this high-interest, easy-reading-level book with before, during, and after reading activities, post-reading questions, a memory game, and more! Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.
Author : Roderick Gordon,Brian Williams
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545381253
The New York Times Bestseller! The story of an outcast boy, his eccentric dad, and the scary underground world they discover through secret TUNNELS.14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. "The Colony" has existed unchanged for a century, but it's no benign time capsule of a bygone era--because the Colony is ruled by a cultlike overclass, the Styx. Before long--before he can find his father--Will is their prisoner....
Author : Miriam Aronin
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781597168687
"Welcome to the ant's huge underground city. Here you'll discover how the insects rest, take care of their queen, and raise their young. You'll also find out how some ants grow their own food and carry out other surprising tasks as they go about their busy lives"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Suzanne Martel
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre Limited
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0888992009
Author : Edward Feuer
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497399920
The Underground City of Cappadocia is a fictional portrayal of the Great Persecution. In 303AD, dominated by an evil emperor, the Roman Empire proclaimed war on the Christians. Believers were forced to worship the emperor or face enslavement, torture and death. The Christians of Cappadocia (Central Turkey), create an underground city to protect themselves from the Romans. Leadership struggles arise as Christians fight for power. Can Christians truly unite and work together amidst challenging circumstances? The conclusion of the story represents one of the most dramatic transformations in history, creating hope amidst the challenges of today. "Edward Feuer masterfully brings an important chapter in the development of the Christian church to life in this historical novel. He has created characters so compelling that one looks forward to what's in the next chapter and wants even more when the story ends." Mark Fingerlin Vistage International "Fascinating history and a great job of historical fiction premised on scriptural truth." Leith Swanson Founder of Global Oceanic "I did not grasp the depth of church unity until reading The Underground City of Cappadocia." Kent Porter Porter Leadership Development
Author : Margaret Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Homeless persons
ISBN : 0300065590
One of the oldest surviving homeless communities in New York City has been hidden from public view in an underground train tunnel since the 1970s. Residents dwell in continual darkness along the two-and-a-half mile stretch, which is penetrated only by shafts of light angling through air vents. The residents who have been there longest live alongside the tracks in cinder block bunkers originally used by railroad personnel. Other residents are hidden high above the tracks in recessed niches that are accessible only by climbing. More recent tunnel dwellers have built freestanding structures in the dark alcoves of the tunnel or perched themselves on concrete ledges.
Author : Richard Sauder
Publisher : Adventures Unlimited Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0932813372
Go behind the scenes into little-known corners of the public record and discover how corporate America has worked hand-in-glove with the Pentagon for decades -- dreaming about, planning, and actually constructing secret underground bases. And newly-uncovered information indicates that the strangeness continues with bizarre, high-tech gadgets like portable, hand-held surgical lasers and injectable electronic IDs as small as a grain of rice!
Author : Will Hunt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781471139598
'A mesmerizingly fascinating tale, one astonishing adventure after another. I could not stop reading this beautifully written book.' Michael Finkel, author of The Stranger in the Woods 'A unique history of a culturally and scientifically important netherworld most people barely know exists.' Booklist 'An unusual and intriguing travel book ... A vivid illumination of the dark and an effective evocation of its profound mystery.'Kirkus (starred review) When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in Providence, Rhode Island. His first tunnel trips inspired a lifelong fascination with exploring underground worlds, from the derelict subway stations and sewers of New York City to sacred caves, catacombs, tombs, bunkers and ancient underground cities in more than twenty countries around the world. Underground is both a personal exploration of Hunt’s obsession and a panoramic study of how we are all connected to the underground, how caves and other dark hollows have frightened and enchanted us through the ages. In a narrative spanning continents and epochs, Hunt follows a cast of subterraneaphiles who have dedicated themselves to investigating underground worlds. He tracks the origins of life with a team of NASA microbiologists a mile beneath the Black Hills, camps out for three days with urban explorers in the catacombs and sewers of Paris, descends with an Aboriginal family into a 35,000-year-old mine in the Australian outback, and glimpses a sacred sculpture moulded by Paleolithic artists in the depths of a cave in the Pyrenees. Each adventure is woven with findings in mythology and anthropology, natural history and neuroscience, literature and philosophy – this is a graceful meditation on the allure of darkness, the power of mystery, and our eternal desire to connect with what we cannot see.
Author : Mark Ovenden,London Transport Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Local transit
ISBN : UOM:39015066729263