Place-Hacking the City
by Bradley L. Garrett
- Author(s)
- Bradley L. Garrett
- Publisher, year
- London ; New York : Verso Books, 2014
- Scope
- 274 p., illustrated, 24 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781781685570
What does it feel like to find the city’s edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale unfinished skyscrapers high above the metropolis? 'Explore Everything' reclaims the city, recasting it as a place for endless adventure. Plotting expeditions from London, Paris, Berlin, Detroit, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Bradley L. Garrett has tested the boundaries of urban security in order to experience the city in ways beyond the everyday. He calls it “place hacking”: the recoding of closed, secret, hidden and forgotten urban spaces to make them realms of opportunity. The book is also a manifesto, combining philosophy, politics and adventure, on our rights to the city and how to understand the twenty-first- century metropolis.
- Location
- Art in Public Space ; walking climbing skating street art
- Extra themes
- Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
