1st Edition

Underground Urbanism

By Elizabeth Reynolds Copyright 2020
276 Pages 200 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 200 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 200 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the streets of your city? Do you picture, in isolation, a series of train tunnels and pipes? Or perhaps the foundations of tall buildings that lie scattered, like icebergs, beneath the surface? As our cities grow up, out, and down, it is time we better understood how the different layers of these complex urban environments relate to one another.... Read more

Chapter 1. Urban Growth — Up, Out & Down Chapter 2. Understanding the Underground Chapter 3. The 3D City Chapter 4. Adapting Underground Spaces Chapter 5. Adapting Underground Spaces Chapter 6. Adapting Underground Spaces Chapter 7. Adapting Underground Spaces Chapter 8. References

Biography

Elizabeth Reynolds is a Chartered Urban Planner and Director of Urben, an east London studio focused on planning, design and problem solving for urban environments. Over the past 20 years Elizabeth has worked in multidisciplinary teams on major infrastructure and regeneration projects including the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Crossrail. Urben works from macro scale strategic city plans to detailed street design, with a common theme of making cities creative, productive and resilient places. She is a co-founder of Think Deep UK and has undertaken extensive research into the overlooked but important places beneath our cities.