[ebooks] Art; Creativity; and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists by From Routledge at Arts-Photography

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As the world rapidly urbanizes; its cities sink themselves into the ground in sprawling tendons of tunnels ndash; conduits for transport; utilities; communication; shelter and storage. The excavation of these spaces; at ever-increasing depths and speed; has changed our lives in ways that we tend to take for granted. This is the first book to chart the global reach of urban underground spaces; bringing together a collection of 80 stories of subterranean sites around the world. The book draws out the extraordinary range of meanings suggested by urban underground spaces; whether their power as places of hope; fear; memory; labour and resistance; or their capacity to evoke both long histories and futures in the making.Illustrated with often breathtaking photographs; Global Undergrounds creates a new sense of the richness and global diversity of urban underground spaces. Its breadth and depth will appeal to all those who are engaged with these spaces: from urban planners; geographers; architects and engineers to urban explorers; photographers and anyone who encounters underground spaces in their cities. Indeed; we inhabit a world where the material stuff beneath our feet is constantly in flux; where layer upon layer of things; people and substances circulate; dream and dwell.