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

Autor HK Urbex
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2019
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789887792864
ISBN-10: 9887792861
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: colour photos
Dimensiuni: 215 x 215 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: BLACKSMITH BOOKS
Colecția Blacksmith Books (HK)

Recenzii

Where many people see only squalor and grime, HK Urbex sees a trove of stories. Elaine Yau, South China Morning Post
HK Urbex force us to come face to face with this debris of modernization and these ruins that are constantly accumulating, even as we keep building. Lee Kah Wee, assistant professor of architecture, National University of Singapore
The explorers belong to HK Urbex, a so-called urban exploration collective whose expeditions often require trespassing or walks through dark, abandoned or dangerous sites. But unlike some urban explorers, they do not court danger purely for its own sake. Their primary goal is to peel back layers of history sometimes literally, by digging through dust and trash and forge a video archive of Hong Kongs colonial-era environment. Mike Ives, The New York Times
To some, a deserted public housing block or a derelict hospital is nothing but a waste of space. But to the explorers behind anonymous collective HK Urbex, these forgotten buildings reveal another side of Hong Kong. Kate Springer, BBC correspondent