{"product_id":"underground-dreams-and-degradations-in-bucharest-hardback-9781512825824","title":"Underground; Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest (Hardback) 9781512825824","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnderground\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDreams and Degradations in Bucharest\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBruce O'Neill (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781512825824\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 April 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 38 b\/w photos\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.467 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnderground\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a changing global landscape where cities like Bucharest are turbo-charging longstanding inequalities by shifting the underclasses into new and increasingly uncomfortable spaces. Virtuoso writing renders this economic and political story of urban transformation in deeply human terms.\" (Bruce Grant, New York University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. \u003ci\u003eUnderground \u003c\/i\u003emoves 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. \u003ci\u003eUnderground \u003c\/i\u003edetails 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. In this sense, the repurposed underground facilitates dreams of middle-class ascendancy. This sense of optimism, the book shows, invariably gives way to ambivalence as the middle classes confront the indignities of being incorporated into the city from below.\u003cbr\u003e Bruce O'Neill argues that 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 classes fit in the city. Pushing urban studies beyond a cartographic perspective—with its horizontal focus upon centers and peripheries, walls and gates—O'Neill brings into focus the vertical dynamics of gentrification that place some \"on the bottom\" and others \"on top\" of the city. As cities around the world extend further downward in the name of development and sustainability, \u003ci\u003eUnderground \u003c\/i\u003emakes clear that scholars and practitioners of the twenty-first-century city will need to become ever more attuned to the cultural politics of urban verticality, asking not just who is included in the city and who has been pressed outside of it, but also who is on top and who is placed on the bottom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 1. Lights and Tile\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 2. Station Kiosks\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 3. Basement Apartments\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 4. Night Clubs\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 5. Parking Garages\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 6. Ruins\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 7. Foundations\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 8. Digital Public Library\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 9. Bomb Shelters\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 10. Tombs\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e  Afterword: A Note on Method\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610736488728,"sku":"9781512825824","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/underground-dreams-and-degradations-in-bucharest-hardback-9781512825824","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}