Underground: dreams and degradations in Bucharest

"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 m...

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Main Author: O'Neill, Bruce 1981- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2024]
In:Year: 2024
Online Access: Table of Contents
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Keywords:
City planning > Romania > Bucharest
Underground areas > Romania > Bucharest
Earth sheltered houses > Romania > Bucharest
Zones souterraines - Roumanie - Bucarest
Earth sheltered houses
Social Conditions
Underground areas
Bucharest (Romania) > Social conditions
Romania - Bucharest
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Summary:"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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xii, 254 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781512825824
9781512825831