Underground Cities

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Underground Cities -

Ancient And Future

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Turkey's Amazing Underground Cities

 

Several underground cities are open to visitors. The largest of

these, at Derinkuyu has 8 levels open to the public, there may be as

many as 12 more levels as yet unexcavated. There are about 600

outside doors to the city, hidden in the courtyards of surface

dwellings. There is some speculation that Derinkuyu may be linked to

another underground city, Kaymakl, which is 9 kilometers away.

 

http://www.atamanhotel.com/cappunder.html

 

 

 

Underground Beijing

 

Beneath the ancient city of Beijing, an underground city of definite

proportions has already begun to emerge. There are factories,

stores, guesthouses, restaurants, hospitals, schools, theaters,

reading - rooms, a roller skating rink, a grain and oil warehouse,

and a mushroom cultivation farm. These underground production and

service facilities cover a total area of 850,000 square meters and

make use of more than 1,000 anti-air raid structures.

 

http://beijing.travel-to-china.net/folk/undergroundcity.htm

 

 

 

Underground London

 

Central London filled up many years ago. Her roads have been

congested ever since the days of the horse and cart, and there is no

more room for building. For Victorian engineers determined to

improve London life, the only way was down.

 

So they dug: railways, roads and footpaths; sewers, buried rivers,

and most recently, bomb shelters. Today, there is a veritable

subterranean city beneath the streets of London.

 

http://www.heritagemagazine.co.uk/underground.html

 

 

 

Portland's Underground Tunnels

 

http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-

bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/

display?slug=portland29&date=20010429

 

 

 

The Future Of Underground Cities

 

"The world's cities may be overcrowded, and the suburbs that

surround them may be choked by unchecked sprawl, but there's plenty

of undeveloped space. It's right at your feet: underground... You

won't hear much talk of it outside of specialized engineering

circles, but we're at a tipping point... Over the next 10 years

these techniques will be used to hollow out space beneath the

world's great cities."

 

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/suburb.html