Underground : dreams and degradations in Bucharest / Bruce O'Neill.
| Author/creator | O'Neill, Bruce, 1981- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2024] |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | xii, 254 pages : illustratoins ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The city in the twenty-first century City in the twenty-first century book series. ^A273939 |
| Contents | Lights and tile -- Station kiosks -- Basement apartments -- Night clubs -- Parking garages -- Ruins -- Foundations -- Digital public library -- Bomb shelters -- Tombs. |
| Abstract | "O'Neill moves beneath Romania's capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban life not just upward into higher skylines, and outward to ever more distant peripheries, but also downward beneath city sidewalks. He details how developers and municipal officials have invested tremendous sums of money to gentrify and expand Bucharest's constellation of subterranean Metro stations and pedestrian pathways, basements and cellars, bunkers and crypts to provide upwardly mobile residents with space to live, work, and play in an overcrowded and increasingly unaffordable city center. These loosely coordinated efforts have not only introduced novel forms of social fragmentation but also a new aesthetics of inequality that are fundamentally shaping where and how the middle clases fit in the city"--Back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9781512825831 |
| ISBN | 9781512825824 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1512825824 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1512825832 (paperback) |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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