Beneath the Metropolis – The Secret Life of Cities
Beneath the Metropolis – The Secret Life of Cities – Alex Marshall
Marshall gives a short overview on a number of famous cities and their secret underground. From waterworks, subway tunnels, aqueducts, crypts and even whole secret cities and train systems under Moscow, most major metropolitan areas have thousands of feet of under-structures that very few people are aware of. A good starter book for anyone interested in learning about underground structures.
Ghostly Ruins – America’s Forgotten Architecture
Ghostly Ruins – America’s Forgotten Architecture – Harry Skrdla
Harry Skrdla is a prat. His writing is pompous, overblown and redundant. I can almost guarantee he has a closet full of notebooks where he wrote wretched Goth poetry in while in high school.
The pictures, on the other hand, are beautiful. Encompassing a wide array of ruins – homes, factories, amusement parks – Skrlda shows the beauty and sadness of wonderful unique buildings left to rot. Many of the locations were built during the Victorian era and are massive and solid edifices. These hospitals, jails and mansions are often stone and brick with slate...
Archeaology
Archeology Magazine
A truly fantastic magazine. Articles range from current digs in Iran recently opened for the first time in 30 years, to an urban archeological dig being done through the floor of a room in a fully functioning motel. No one country or time period receives any special emphasis. Past memorable articles include: underwater excavations of ceremonial sacrifices in Mayan sinkholes, removing land-mines around the Plain of Jars in Laos, teaching Aleut fishermen to fish like their ancestors and ongoing problems with fakes and forgeries.
http://www.archaeology.org/