New ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and
inhabit underground space. This book explores how these innovations
can help to make our increasingly dense, climate-stressed cities
both more resilient and more of a pleasure to live in. While it
sets out practical design approaches, Underground Cities is not a
technical manual. Designed for everyone with an interest in the
future of our cities, it is beautifully illustrated and written in
an accessible style that draws on the rich tradition of
underworlds, both real and imagined, in art, history and poetry.
Global in scope, the book ranges across continents as it surveys
the vast expansion in the potential of the underground. The opening
section, 'A New Frontier', looks at two pioneering cold-climate
cities, Montreal and Helsinki, which developed new uses for the
underground from the 1960s on. The closing section, 'Looking
Forward', offers glimpses of the city of the future - of what we
might be able to achieve in the next 50 or 60 years. Focusing on
Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo, it shows projects that are going
deeper, achieving a greater synergy of uses and preparing the way
for new urban forms. In between, it reviews a range of innovative
ideas and presents buildings and projects by leading international
architects and artists, among them Jun'ya Ishigami, James Turrell,
Dominique Perrault and Thomas Heatherwick, which highlight the
advances in technology that are making it possible to bring the
elements of nature - light, air, vegetation - deep underground.
Works include a subterranean oasis, a refuge from the desert heat;
a museum extension that deploys light and colour to define space; a
multi-modal underground transport hub that evokes the arcades of
nineteenth-century Paris, but with an added profusion of plants;
and a troglodytic house and restaurant, sunk into the earth to
create atmosphere.
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