Subterranean cities : the world beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945 /

"The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In 'Subterranean Cities', David L. Pike e...

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Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Pike, David L. (David Lawrence), 1963- (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press 2005.
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv2n7kdf
Оглавление:
  • New life underground
  • Modern necropolis
  • Charon's bark
  • Urban apocalypse.