Spatial Cemetery: A Journey Beneath the Surface of Hidden Hong Kong - Couverture souple

Urbex, HK

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9887792861 ISBN 13 : 9789887792864

Editeur : Blacksmith Books, 2019

Synopsis

This book contains secrets and stories about Hong Kong that have never before been published. Prepare to have your preconceived notions of this bustling Asian financial hub butchered as you journey through crevices, enter hidden portals, clamber over barbed-wire fences, evade security guards and infiltrate derelict structures to travel back in time. Your hosts are an anonymous grassroots squad of explorers who will show you a side of Hong Kong only a specialist minority know about. Although the city has some of the most expensive property on the planet, an unknown world awaits beyond the shimmering skyscrapers and under the glitzy malls. This is the hidden kingdom of non-spaces: environments and structures that lie fallow, usually abandoned and left to rot, or suspended in limbo awaiting evictions and demolition. The HK Urbex crew -- a covert collective of urban explorers whose exploits merge archaeology, ethnography, historiography and anthropology -- unearth dead zones on the periphery of the city. They invite you to explore haunted schools, rummage through old crime scenes, reconnoitre condemned buildings and uncover the scraps of modernisation which wont be recorded in history books. So come inside, confront the aesthetic of loss, discover the value of dead architecture and see Hong Kong as youve never seen it before.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

HK Urbex (Hong Kong Urban Exploration) is an anonymous, grassroots collective that seeks to unearth and document hidden sites in and around Hong Kong. Beyond the shimmering skyscrapers and glitzy malls, the intrepid explorers reveal another side of Hong Kong and the Asian cities they visit, bringing undisclosed non-spaces to light. They are a motley crew of photographers, filmmakers, journalists, writers and adrenalin junkies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blacksmith Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9887792861
• ISBN 13: 9789887792864
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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