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Underground cities

August 2020

  • Leisure facilities include a pool

    Weapons rooms, fake windows and a $3m price tag: inside a luxury doomsday bunker

    Afraid of nuclear war, natural disasters, economic meltdown? The Survival Condo could be the answer

December 2019

  • The Path Toronto, a network of underground pedestrian tunnels and walkways connecting offices and shopping areas.

    'A classist dystopia'? Inside the world’s largest underground shopping complex

  • The issue affects properties from expensive high-end apartments to offices blocks converted into social housing.

    'It feels almost like prison': the developers building homes with no natural light

  • People wait on the platform as an “R” subway train pulls into a station in Times Square and passengers at Westminster tube station In London

    A tale of two metros: how the London tube beat the New York subway

  • The Survival Condo’s underground pool.

    A cinema, a pool, a bar: inside the post-apocalyptic underground future

October 2019

  • A zama zama prepares to go underground in Durban Deep, an abandoned Victorian-era gold mine.

    South African cities week
    'There's a lot of money down there': the deadly cities of gold beneath Johannesburg

  • The new necropolis has been built to accommodate 23,000 bodies.

    The future of burial: inside Jerusalem's hi-tech underground necropolis

January 2019

  • A Cure for Death, from the Juno Calypso series What to Do With a Million Years.

    My best shot
    Juno Calypso's best photograph: voyeurism in a pink cold-war bunker

    ‘It was built as a cold war bomb shelter by an Avon director and a hairdresser to the stars. Now it’s owned by a group of people who want to be frozen cryogenically and live for ever’

October 2018

  • Tomb ravers … partygoers at last year’s Kataloween, with a macabre mockup of the Mona Lisa.

    Happy Kataloween: the spooky celebration in the Paris catacombs

    Every Halloween partygoers descend into this mysterious underworld where – from occult art shows to obsessive ‘cataphiles’ – a secret subculture is flourishing

August 2018

  • A Metro train rumbles into Novza station

    Urban eye
    Uzbekistan's secret underground – in pictures

    After the ban on photographing the Tashkent metro in Uzbekistan was lifted this summer, Amos Chapple went underground to reveal the art, architecture and nuclear-blast protection in Central Asia’s oldest subway system

July 2018

  • The Boring Company - Elon Musk Los Angeles Tunnel

    Who owns the space under cities? The attempt to map the earth beneath us

    The space under cities is getting busier – from transport excavations to billionaire’s mega-basements. So how to keep track of what’s down there?

June 2018

  • Untitled, 2016, from the series New York Chronicles – Subway

    The city beneath the city: the New York subway – in pictures

    Photographer Luc Kordas captures New York’s unique energy and characters in his ongoing series New York Chronicles. One of his favourite locations is the city’s subway, where he captures “those quiet moments people have among all the craziness”

January 2018

  • A subterranean sewage tunnel under construction in Hong Kong.

    The big dig: how the high cost of land is forcing Hong Kong into caverns

    With the highest house prices in the world, and most of its land unbuildable, the city has found a new way to expand – by digging caverns in the mountains

February 2017

  • Underground Valletta

    Malta's secret tunnels: inside the newly discovered underworld of Valletta

  • Inside an abandoned quarry

    Resilient cities
    New life in the kingdom of death: the plan to redevelop subterranean Paris

10 November 2016

  • BRADLEY GARRETT National Grid Hanging

    The Guardian UK Culture Podcast
    Urban explorer and geographer Dr Bradley Garrett – audio interview

    Dr Bradley Garrett has been exploring the forbidden parts of cities since he was a teenager. He talks to Stephen Moss
  • Thames Water sewer inspectors, aka "flushers", at work on a section of the vast London sewerage system, near to Farringdon/Clerkenwell. London sewers. London. Photograph by David Levene 8/9/16

    Hidden city: London’s sewer men at work – in pictures

    Thames Water sewer technicians look after over 70,000 miles of subterranean tunnels in London. David Levene photographs them on duty

    • Subterranean London

    • Politics, thrills or social media: what drives the new breed of urban explorer?

    • Mind that fatberg! My day as a 'flusher' in the London sewers

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