Explore Everything

Place-Hacking the City

By: Bradley Garrett

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Paperback | 1 October 2014 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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'Volatile and extraordinary ... a gonzo road trip.' Guardian

What does it feel like to find the city's edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale unfinished skyscrapers high above the metropolis? Explore Everything reclaims the city, recasting it as a place for endless adventure.

Plotting expeditions from London, Paris, Berlin, Detroit, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Bradley L. Garrett has tested the boundaries of urban security in order to experience the city in ways beyond the everyday. He calls it 'place hacking': the recoding of closed, secret, hidden and forgotten urban spaces to make them realms of opportunity. The book is also a manifesto, combining philosophy, politics and adventure, on our rights to the city and how to understand the twenty-first- century metropolis.

'Volatile and extraordinary ... a gonzo road trip.' Guardian

'It's hard not to admire these explorers. Or Garrett himself, who says he wrote part of the book on a laptop while sitting in a crane overlooking Aldgate East.' Financial Times

About the Author

Bradley L. Garrett is a writer, photographer and researcher at the University of Oxford. After studying anthropology at the University of California Riverside and working in Australia, Mexico and Hawaii, he became an urban explorer, photographing off-limits urban spaces in both the US and Europe, his exploits have been featured on TV, radio, GQ magazine, the Guardian and the Telegraph.

Industry Reviews

A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR "Urban exploration is... a way of renegotiating reality, transforming the moment, turning the city into a video game. Except that, in this game, you only have one life."--"Evening Standard" "A unique and electrifying travelogue ... Garrett and his fellow travelers are as fit, agile and fearless as ninja."--"Booklist", Starred Review "For Garrett, physical exploration is merely the outward manifestation of a deeper philosophical inquiry. The theoretical DNA of much of his work traces back to the concept of 'psychogeography.'"--"GQ" "An absorbing read ... Recommended for travel and modern history readers."--"Library Journal"

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