Download or read book Underground Cities written by Mark Ovenden and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 60 per cent of the world’s population living in cities, the networks beneath our feet – which keep the cities above moving – are more important than ever before. Yet we never truly see how these amazing feats of engineering work. Just how deep do the tunnels go? Where do the sewers, bunkers and postal trains run? And, how many tunnels are there under our streets? Each featured city presents a ‘skyline of the underground’ through specially commissioned cut-away illustrations and unique cartography. Drawing on geography, cartography and historical oddities, Mark Ovenden explores what our cities look like from the bottom up.
Download or read book The Underground City of Cappadocia written by Edward Feuer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Underground City of Cappadocia is a fictional portrayal of the Great Persecution. In 303AD, dominated by an evil emperor, the Roman Empire proclaimed war on the Christians. Believers were forced to worship the emperor or face enslavement, torture and death. The Christians of Cappadocia (Central Turkey), create an underground city to protect themselves from the Romans. Leadership struggles arise as Christians fight for power. Can Christians truly unite and work together amidst challenging circumstances? The conclusion of the story represents one of the most dramatic transformations in history, creating hope amidst the challenges of today. "Edward Feuer masterfully brings an important chapter in the development of the Christian church to life in this historical novel. He has created characters so compelling that one looks forward to what's in the next chapter and wants even more when the story ends." Mark Fingerlin Vistage International "Fascinating history and a great job of historical fiction premised on scriptural truth." Leith Swanson Founder of Global Oceanic "I did not grasp the depth of church unity until reading The Underground City of Cappadocia." Kent Porter Porter Leadership Development
Download or read book The Underground City written by H.L. Humes and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print after nearly fifty years–the acclaimed fiction debut of novelist H. L. Humes, co-founder of The Paris Review “Immensely intelligent and energetic, intensely dramatic and melodramatic, heroically overwritten yet sharp, insightful, and precise, The Underground City is an astonishing book by a writer of abundant gifts whose resurrection is long overdue.” –Peter Matthiessen It is the late 1940s and Paris is in turmoil. A man named Dujardin is sentenced to death for treason, sparking general strikes and threats of riots across the city. In the meantime, John Stone, a war-weary American and former secret agent, finds himself being investigated as a suspected Communist. What has brought these two men to their fates? H.L. Humes spins a thrilling account of the French underground during the last years of World War II, and the events that lead to the Dujardin affair. His many memorable characters include Adriane, loved by both Stone and Carnot, a fanatic Communist; Bruce Sheppard, the American ambassador to France, a statesman of vision and compassion; and Solange Récamier, the sophisticated young Parisian widow who finds meaning in trying to salvage Stone’s broken life. The Underground City displays H.L. Humes’s youthful literary skill and a striking capacity for fast-paced narrative. This is a brilliant tour de force. “A major achievement . . . [The Underground City] attains its full stature in poetry and truth. . . . [This is a] many-sided, absorbing novel, written on a grand scale, that holds the reader’s attention from the first to the last of its many pages.” –New York Herald Tribune “Magnificent . . . [The Underground City] has verisimilitude and scope, action and depth of emotion.” –Chicago Tribune “A work of power, maturity and distinction.” –Newsweek
Download or read book Underground Cities written by John Endicott and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book New York Underground written by Julia Solis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did alligators ever really live in New York's sewers? What's it like to explore the old aqueducts beneath the city? How many levels are beneath Grand Central Station? And how exactly did the pneumatic tube system that New York's post offices used to employ work? In this richly illustrated historical tour of New York's vast underground systems, Julia Solis answers all these questions and much, much more. New York Underground takes readers through ingenious criminal escape routes, abandoned subway stations, and dark crypts beneath lower Manhattan to expose the city's basic anatomy. While the city is justly famous for what lies above ground, its underground passages are equally legendary and tell us just as much about how the city works.
Download or read book City Under Ground written by Suzanne Martel and published by Douglas & McIntyre Limited. This book was released on 1994 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secret Underground Cities written by Nicholas J. McCamley and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the vast underground arsenals, factories and bunkers built by the British government during WWII and the new uses found for them.
Download or read book The Underground City written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Underground CityJules Verne
Download or read book The Ant s Nest written by Miriam Aronin and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Welcome to the ant's huge underground city. Here you'll discover how the insects rest, take care of their queen, and raise their young. You'll also find out how some ants grow their own food and carry out other surprising tasks as they go about their busy lives"--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Beneath the Neon written by Matthew O'Brien and published by Huntington Press Inc. This book was released on 2007-03-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O’Brien’s adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it’s least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.
Download or read book Salem Secret Underground written by Christopher Dowgin and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1801 Elias Hasket Derby Jr. leaves his two-year retirement. His father, the country's first millionaire, has left him a money pit that many would consider one of the nation's first American Castles. The expense to keep up this mansion and his leisurely lifestyle has forced Elias back into action. He will take command of the local militia to fill in the ponds in the Common as part of an elaborate plot. The plot would entail the beautification of this neighborhood and entice a series of merchants and ship captains to build a series of two grand brick mansions set apart at fixed distances around the new park. All attached to a series of smuggling tunnels that would lead from the wharf, to their stores, and the banks.An elaborate scheme filled with Masons, pirates, a Secretary of the Navy, Senators, Representatives, a Supreme Court Justice, Presidents, and a touch of murder! Dig into the tunnels of Salem and find the underbelly of our nation!
Download or read book Tunnels Tunnels 1 written by Roderick Gordon and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller! The story of an outcast boy, his eccentric dad, and the scary underground world they discover through secret TUNNELS.14-year-old Will Burrows has little in common with his strange, dysfunctional family. In fact, the only bond he shares with his eccentric father is a passion for archaeological excavation. So when Dad mysteriously vanishes, Will is compelled to dig up the truth behind his disappearance. He unearths the unbelievable: a secret subterranean society. "The Colony" has existed unchanged for a century, but it's no benign time capsule of a bygone era--because the Colony is ruled by a cultlike overclass, the Styx. Before long--before he can find his father--Will is their prisoner....
Download or read book Exploring Montreal s Underground City written by Alan Hustak and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Montreal's underground city which is a maze of passageways, alleys, atriums, and hallways 32 kilometres long connecting 85 downtown skyscrapers, 10 hotels, 2,000 stores and apartment blocks, and 68 Metro stations.
Download or read book Underground Cities written by Hailey Scragg and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Features: • 32 pages, about 7 inches x 9 inches • Ages 8-14, Grades 3-8 leveled readers • Easy-to-read pages with vibrant photos • Features before, during, and after reading activities • After-reading questions, memory game, and reading activity included Underground Cities: Did you know some cities are built underground? They could be hidden just beneath our feet! Let's dig deep to uncover where these cities are hiding and the secrets they contain in Underground Cities! Hidden, Lost, And Discovered: Go on an epic journey to explore some of the most interesting places from around the world, their history, and how they were discovered. Some people may not even know they exist! Reading Made Fun: This 32-page nonfiction book for grades 3–8 features eye-catching photos, hidden histories, and fascinating facts about some of the world's most amazing locations. Leveled Books: Discovering the world's intriguing history will engage readers in this high-interest, easy-reading-level book with before, during, and after reading activities, post-reading questions, a memory game, and more! Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.
Download or read book Subterranean Twin Cities written by Greg A. Brick and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Subterranean Twin Cities, geologist, historian, and urban speleologist Greg Brick takes us on an adventurous, educational, and-thankfully-sanitary journey beneath the streets and into the myriad tunnels, caves, and industrial spaces that make up the Twin Cities' fascinating and surprisingly vast underground landscape. In this groundbreaking tour, the first of its kind of the Twin Cities, Brick mines the stories that lie below the city surface.
Download or read book Underground written by Will Hunt and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descend -- Across Paris -- The intraterrestrials -- The ochre miners -- The burrowers -- Lost -- The hidden bison -- The dark zone -- Humberto.
Download or read book The Field of Ice written by Jules Verne and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
