Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest

by Bruce O'Neill

Book Overview

This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves 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. Underground details how developers and municipal officials have invested tremendous sums of money to gentrify...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512825832
• ISBN13: 9781512825831
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"