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  Urban Exploration
Urban exploration writeups and photography showcase for various asylums, power plants, hospitals, and other abandoned locations, by Mr.
Urban exploration of schools,hospitals,cast les,military grounds,active & abandoned factories in Belgium.
abandoned places in poland - urban exploration, infiltration, dead cities, dead places and others.
e.webring.com /hub?ring=draining   (276 words)

  
  Extreme Photography: Urban Exploration - MSN Encarta
In 1996, around the same time Duncan was exploring Columbia University's utility tunnels, a community was forming known as "Urban Exploration" (dictionaries have yet to list the phrase).
The urban exploration community has an eclectic following including: academics, journalists, art students, and architecture buffs.
Urban explorers often photograph these places without permission, but many believe it's worth the risk if it helps people better understand local or architectural history.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/Departments/careertraining/?article=extremephoto>1=8237   (751 words)

  
  Urban Exploration: a few simple recommendations
Urban Exploration: the pastime of the restless, the inquisitive, the rebellious.
Urban exploration is not entirely safe or entirely legal, but these qualifiers are usually little deterrent for the average college student.
Urban Exploration is all about bending the rules, finding the extraordinary in everyday life.
www.mrs.umn.edu /register/article.php?volume=18&issue=24§ion=feature&index=0   (757 words)

  
 Urban exploration - Uncyclopedia
Urban Explorers, UE or urbex is the collective name of a dangerous series of numerous underground cults specializing in exploring other peoples houses and apartments during the night.
Urban Exploration is the common umbrella term with which the cult members refer to their own activities.
The foundation of the Urban exploration movement was layed 550,000 years ago by three primitive ogres, Huey, Dewey and Louie, somewhere in Europe.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Urban_exploration   (1722 words)

  
 Infiltration: No Disclaimer
I don't think there is anything wrong with urban exploration, at least not the type described here and on 95 percent of the other sites on the Internet, and I can't pretend I do.
Urban explorers strive to actually earn their experiences, by making discoveries that allow them to get in on the secret workings of cities and structures, and to appreciate fantastic, obscure spaces that might otherwise go completely neglected.
Urban exploration is free, fun and hurts no one.
www.infiltration.org /ethics-nodisclaimer.html   (460 words)

  
 atoposes, poetic spaces, and modern ruins: surrealist urban exploration, industrial archaeology
While I cannot deny my own personal interest in some of these various "thrills" (in various guises, of course), the real motivation is the exploration of the gothic element, as it is constructed by the collective psyche of all those who visit "the urban ruin" and interact with and transform its constitutive elements.
In this respect, the urban exploration documented here takes on a surrealist dimension, in that the ruins, and the found and vandalized objects within these environments, are considered to be objects of desire, and objects of haunting.
The process of urban exploration is also capable of revealing more than just bare walls and terrible buildings.
www.surrealcoconut.com /urban_ruins/urban_exploration.htm   (2021 words)

  
 Urban Exploration Directory @ GoGuides
The practice and theory of urban exploration in areas not designed for public usage.
Photographic essays include explorations of a girls orphanage, insane asylum, hospital, crypt, and steel plant.
Sites focussing on the art of urban exploration: touring storm drains, abandoned buildings, rooftops, transit tunnels, college steam tunnels and other off-limits locations.
www.goguides.org /topic/13749/11.html   (154 words)

  
 Infiltration
Infiltration offers a mix of the practice and theory of urban exploration in areas not designed for public usage.
We are happy to announce the long-delayed arrival of the new second printing of Access All Areas: a user's guide to the art of urban exploration.
The website will continue to be maintained both in his memory and in the spirit of exploration.
www.infiltration.org   (260 words)

  
 Forbidden Places - Urban exploration
Anderlues coking plant: exploration of a tiny coking plant.
The Basque berets factory Pierre Laulhère: exploration of an old factory of a small Pyrenean village.
St Elizabeth's clinic: short exploration of an abandoned clinic.
www.forbidden-places.be /explo1.php   (1082 words)

  
 disinformation | urban exploration   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The night belongs to the urban explorers, a worldwide movement of hardcore adventurers, and thanks to web-sites like 'Planetjinx' and 'Infiltration', their numbers are skyrocketing.
The 'Urban Exploration' movement is a threat to the safety of all citizens.
Like most urban exploration sites, this one is painfully ugly in design, but infectious in its enthusiasm, gleefully describing the less savory aspects of the avocation, "A Disused railway in Geelong: The whole place smells of piss and old vomit.
www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id255/pg1   (683 words)

  
 Urban Exploration :: AFTER...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Urban Explorers are extreme sports' answer to computer hackers: a growing breed of thrill-seekers who thrive on infiltrating the planet's most dangerous man-made structures, just because they can…
Urban Exploration "doesn't have an official definition, except that it is going places you're not supposed to go," explains Wotan.
If a lot of Urban Explorers are in their 20s, others are in their late 40s.
www.themovieafter.com /ue/urban-exploration.asp   (143 words)

  
 Urban Exploration Resource: Welcome to the Urban Exploration Resource!
Urban Exploration Resource: Welcome to the Urban Exploration Resource!
Urban Exploration Resource offers articles, photo galleries, stories, and an active forum for the Urban Exploration and Infiltration Community.
Information for exploration, vadding and urban vadding, tunnel vadding, steam tunnels, spelunking, urban spelunking, underground tunnels and passages.
www.uer.ca   (234 words)

  
 Urban Exploration Information
During my teens and early twenties, I was an avid participant in a hobby that is now known as Urban Exploration.
Sprinkled throughout this website are various links to other Urban Exploration groups and images from their expeditions.
I'd suggest you limit your explorations to that of a desktop traveler, and visit sites vicariously though other urban exploration web pages.
fearonmtv.tripod.com /urban.htm   (1494 words)

  
 No Media Kings » The Artist of Urban Exploration
He referred to urban exploration as a “hobby,” even when it grew to the point (take a look around infiltration.org to get a sense of the massive size) where it could have easily been called a movement.
The official launch, a week today, will feature refreshments and adventures told by his fellow urban explorers and is a celebration put on by his co-editor and wife, Liz Clayton.
As well as getting to tag along with him on his explorations (a trip to Lower Bay station spawned this story) I interviewed him a bunch of times: among them, about the weirdness of public attention, and about how the videogame Thief II compared with real-life infiltrating.
nomediakings.org /books/the_artist_of_urban_exploration.html   (736 words)

  
 Scott Teresi - Urban Exploration
If you want to find out more about urban exploration, Infiltration Magazine is for the urban Indiana Jones—the intrepid explorer of hidden territories within a city.
Tons more information is available at the Urban Explorers Network, Urban Adventures, and the Draining webring.
More urban exploration sites exist for Ohio (and here) and OSU.
teresi.us /html/main/exploration.html   (1559 words)

  
 North East Urban Exploration Alliance WebRing
A webring focused on the Northeast region of american urban exploration
Exploration of the forgotten, unusual, and simply strange folklore, history and destinations in New England.
Exploration in mostly southern NJ and the surrounding area.
m.webring.com /hub?ring=newenglandurban1   (202 words)

  
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It seems to me that we're residing in the age of Urban Exploration 2.0.
But this is what exploration is all about; challenging yourself to reach beyond your limits and finding the courage and strength where you thought none existed before.
After two and a half hours of driving and listening to The Eagles and Journey I arrived at the foot of the mountain containing the North Monarch Mine.
www.uea.ca   (1375 words)

  
 URBANPHOTO » Urban Exploration   (Site not responding. Last check: )
For Allman, Orlando represents the next generation of American cities, a vast and diffuse cornubation that is truly a manufactured landscape.
The focus is now on education and culture, and since ten years there’s a university college on the old shipyard area.
Malmö is now actually quite hip, and furthermore it’s a city with lots of immigrants and a great urban and cosmopolitan feel.
www.urbanphoto.net /blog/category/exploration/page/2   (1131 words)

  
 urbanlens :: urban exploration :: still tearing down
urbanlens :: urban exploration :: still tearing down
We've been fooling around with a new site.
If you are looking for the archived site, you'll find it here.
www.urbanlens.com   (37 words)

  
 The Toronto Urban Exploration & Adventure Meetup (TUEAM) (Toronto, ON) - Meetup.com
The Toronto Urban Exploration and Adventure Meetup (TUEAM) (Toronto, ON) - Meetup.com
Home > All Topics > Cultures and Community > Urban Exploration Meetups Everywhere > The Toronto Urban Exploration and Adventure Meetup (TUEAM)
Have joined this group to meet new people and explore new activities.
urbanexplor.meetup.com /12   (408 words)

  
 Urban Exploration - Travelers Digest
Ohio Exploration Society - exploring the forgotten and historical sites of Ohio, one place at a time.
RottenEggs Exploration Adventures - interactive community and guide to unusual and urban exploration, challenges, and pranks.
Zone-Tour - database of Urban Exploration places like quarries, factories, bunkers, sub-stations, and other underground tunnels.
www.travelersdigest.com /urban_exploration.htm   (430 words)

  
 Army of One: Urban Exploration
Basically, the "urban explorers" seek out underground tunnels and old buildings to explore.
One of the most interesting is called The Action Squad where you can check out the adventures of some urban explorers.
There's also a webring dedicated to Urban Exploration.
www.stillmanvalley.org /aoo/archives/000222.html   (255 words)

  
 Russian urban exploration | MetaFilter
June 3, 2005 9:33 PM Urban exploration in the Russian style.
Two more sites to add to the mix courtesy of arse_hat, urban armchair webexplorer.
And my last contribution is a hub for 205 urban exploration sites found from a random google about my hometown.
www.metafilter.com /42521/Russian-urban-exploration   (398 words)

  
 Tchorski - Urban Exploration
Tchorski Urban Exploration is NOT responsible for anything that may happen to anyone as a result of urban exploration or anything else related to this site.
This includes personal injury, property damage, arrest, death, or any other consequences from urban exploration.
We do not support other people practicing urban exploration.
tchorski.morkitu.org /2/3202.htm   (138 words)

  
 Urban Resources : Urban Exploration, Industrial Archaeology, Bunkers, Fortifications, Architecture, Photography
All the team of Urban-Resources is pleased to welcome you in this resource fund devoted to photography, architecture, industrial archaeology and urban exploration realized in close collaboration with ZoneTour.org.
Urban-Resources joined the Amazon Associates Programs which give you the opportunity to order.
By ordering, you will support Urban-Resources to give you the best in books and films dedicated to Urban Exploration, photography, architecture and industrial archaeology.
www.urban-resources.net /index.html   (123 words)

  
 Salon.com Technology | Online and underground
Solis and Deyo are part of a growing movement of urban explorers, adventurers who go where they are not supposed to be and document their experiences online.
At Solis' Dark Passage webzine or Deyo's Jinx Magazine, and dozens of Web sites such as Infiltration, Urban Explorers Network and Forgotten New York, these explorers are visiting places most of us will never see, and recording it so the future won't forget.
It's no longer a solitary pursuit; instead, you can join mailing lists, Usenet groups, countless webzines or even the Urban Exploration Web ring to swap tips, scout out good locations and meet fellow explorers.
www.salon.com /tech/feature/2001/01/16/infiltration/index.html   (779 words)

  
 Urban Exploration - Rochester Wiki
The Monroe County Page of the National Register of Historical Places is an excellent reference tool for finding abandoned buildings and discovering their legal owners.
IndustrialNewYork.com Urban Exploration Location listings This site is incredible, many listings of little known locations in the Rochester area.
2007-01-28 15:09:28 An Urban Exploration Club is forming at the University of Rochester.
rocwiki.org /Urban_Exploration   (410 words)

  
 Jesus Army: Open Directory: Recreation: Outdoors: Caving: Urban Exploration   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Publishes reports on urban exploration and international adventure.
A collection of articles concerning urban exploration, put together by a group of likeminded hackers, including in-depth reports of abandoned underground station explorations.
An archive of information on underground urban sites and structures throughout the world.
www.jesus.org.uk /pod/Recreation/Outdoors/Caving/Urban_Exploration   (222 words)

  
 Forbidden Places - Urban exploration videos
Two ideas stands behind this urban exploration videos section.
Some of these footages will be password protected.
Besides these so-called urban exploration documentaries, we participated as locations managers to the realisation of 3 short films taking place in abandoned places: The Tatty Tales
www.forbidden-places.be /videos.php   (228 words)

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