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UER Forum > Archived UE Main > Must-have books (Viewed 6304 times)
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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 20 on 3/27/2009 4:19 AM >
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Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
http://www.amazon....ssed/dp/1931672008


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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 21 on 3/27/2009 4:52 AM >
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Posted by Annunziata
Oh my god, I LOVE the act of reading an actual book! I love the smell of old books. I love the look of bookcases filled to overflowing; I love libraries; I love collecting books. Today I bought five books (although one was a biography of Gaudi for Jono).



I'm the same way! I think it's a weird addiction. Our bookcase recently collapsed because we have too many haha. My boyfriend stores about 10 boxes worth at his store because we can't fit them all in our apartment. Yeah, we've got the problems

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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 22 on 3/27/2009 5:48 AM >
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I'm sure I'm forgetting a few, but I've enjoyed (most of) these. Most of them are on Amazon/Chapters. Sorry, too lazy to make links. The NYC stuff is worth having a look at even if you never plan on going there.

New York Underground: The Anatomy of a City - Julia Solis
Invisible Frontier: Exploring the Tunnels, Ruins, and Rooftops of Hidden New York - L.B. Deyo and David Leibowitz
The Works: Anatomy of a City - Kate Ascher
A Field Guide to Roadside Technology - Ed Sobey
Beneath the Metropolis: The Secret Lives of Cities - Alex Marshall
Waterworks: A Photographic Journey through New York's Hidden Water System - Stanley Greenberg
Invisible New York: The Hidden Infrastructure of the City - Stanley Greenberg and Thomas Garver
Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape - Brian Hayes
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City - Jennifer Toth
Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945 - David L. Pike
Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001
- David L. Pike
Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization
- Steven High
The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Architecture of Despair) - Margaret Morton
Changing Mines in America - Peter Goin and C. Elizabeth Raymond
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Life and Work - Susanne Lange
Ghostly Ruins: America's Forgotten Architecture - Harry Skrdla
Industry, Architecture, and Engineering: American Ingenuity 1750-1950 - Louis Bergeron and Maria Teresa Maiullari-Pontois
Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places - John Stilgoe
After the Smoke Clears: Struggling to Get By in Rustbelt America - Steve Mellon
Portraits in Steel - Michael H. Frisch and Milton Rogovin
In Ruins: A Journey Through History, Art, and Literature - Christopher Woodward
Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition - Jeff Byles
The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis - Stephen Halliday and Adam Hart-Davis
Actions: what you can do with the city - Canadian Centre for Architecture
A Field Guide to Sprawl- Dolores Hayden and Jim Wark
The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
Bethlehem Steel - Andrew Garn and Lance Metz
Steel Remembered: Photos from the LTV Steel Collection - Christopher J. Dawson

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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 23 on 3/27/2009 10:58 AM >
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Posted by Annunziata

I could go on and on about books, but I'll just show you how much I FUCKING LOVE BOOKS:

http://i72.photobu...emorant/books1.jpg

http://i72.photobu...orant/books2-1.jpg

http://i72.photobu...emorant/books3.jpg

http://i72.photobu...emorant/books4.jpg

http://i72.photobu...emorant/books5.jpg

The last two pictures are of my kitchen cupboards. That's right, no dishes or food; I live off of books!



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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 24 on 3/27/2009 4:15 PM >
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Hey Annunziata



http://i72.photobu...emorant/books1.jpg

Nice Montana Colors
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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 25 on 3/27/2009 4:28 PM >
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JINX CREW's book on NYC

http://www.amazon....eASIN%3D0609809318

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Ninjalicious' guide to the Art

http://www.amazon....=1238171209&sr=1-7

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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 26 on 3/27/2009 6:12 PM >
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Posted by IIVQ
I bow to you. Are they all urbex booxs though?

Heavens, no! I have a broad range of interests that include Art (photography, sculpture and printmaking mostly), Crafts (lots of how-to books on textiles), History (WWII and the Victorian era), Collecting, Antiques, Architecture, Folk Art, Plants, MAPS, Museums, Germany, Illustration, Children's books (the one kitchen cupboard is all children's books), books about books....I could go on. I love books.

Nice Montana Colors

What does that mean? Oooooh, I just Googled it. The spraypaint. I have never spraypainted a building, if that's what your little smiley-devil face was insinuating!

I use it on paper that I make.

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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 27 on 3/28/2009 12:50 AM >
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Posted by don_corleyone

Posted by UniqueStyle

That is funny.
I poop, too
So why does everyone tell me I am full of shit?

are your eyes brown?


No, they are blue and that is why I am confused.
I do know that I have stomach problems. Everything I eat turns to shit?

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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 28 on 3/28/2009 12:58 AM >
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Kind of gives you a different look at things. Its Great.

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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 29 on 3/28/2009 11:43 AM >
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Space and Place by Yi-Fu Tuan

Free:
http://books.googl...=7&ct=result#PPA49,M1

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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 30 on 3/28/2009 12:36 PM >
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Posted by Saint42
The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Kind of gives you a different look at things. Its Great.


Just started reading that this week. Had several copies of it, and finally picked one up. Pretty good stuff. Maybe I can use his lessons to effectively incapacitate the sales competition at work.

I've actually found technical manuals to be somewhat helpful, like the NEC Code Book, and random mechanical/plumbing/electrical references. Yet to have had a use for the knowledge which they've imparted upon me, but I figure once I get inside the 851st, it'll help being able to trace pipes and cables to different parts of the complex.

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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 31 on 3/28/2009 1:18 PM >
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Posted by Annunziata
What does that mean? Oooooh, I just Googled it. The spraypaint. I have never spraypainted a building, if that's what your little smiley-devil face was insinuating!

I use it on paper that I make.


Art is not a crime...vandalism is a crime. My little devil face only insinuated that you know good paint.

I personally love looking at / doing graffiti and I apologize to no one about it. I know some of the urban explorers here contest this point but in the city I live in, its sometimes a persons only form of expression.



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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 32 on 3/29/2009 2:05 PM >
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This all I can think of now in relation to UE. Don't get your hopes too high on the places in this book. There are a ton of sites listed but they're very remote, some still government operated and sometimes miles deep. The size of the machines in these places go at least 3 stories high:




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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 33 on 3/29/2009 2:15 PM >
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If you need a book, you're doing it wrong ;)

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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 34 on 3/29/2009 8:00 PM >
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Posted by Yehoshua
If you need a book, you're doing it wrong ;)


If you don't feel the need for a book, you're doing your life wrong! ;)

Tell him, Annunziata



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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 35 on 3/29/2009 9:22 PM >
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Posted by Calhovin
If you don't feel the need for a book, you're doing your life wrong! ;)

Tell him, Annunziata


YEAH! You're doing your life wrong!

lol. Books are one of the best investments that you can make, and I don't mean in monetary terms.

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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 36 on 3/30/2009 3:26 AM >
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Collapse
by Jared Diamond

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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 37 on 3/31/2009 8:27 AM >
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and music?

I vote for Einstürzende Neubauten

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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 38 on 3/31/2009 9:04 AM >
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Posted by DevilC
Collapse
by Jared Diamond


I just pulled my copy of Collapse off the bookshelf, and found my missing copy of Access All Areas hiding behind it. Coincidence? I think not.


edit: this is actually true - I didn't make this up to be funny.
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Re: Must-have books
<Reply # 39 on 3/31/2009 1:51 PM >
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HA! Appropriate indeed.

Collapse is an amazing book.
None of it is new information. . . . but the world would do better to heed Diamond's words than, say, Al Gore's.
It's LAND USE, not emissions that drives change.

Posted by metawaffle
I just pulled my copy of Collapse off the bookshelf, and found my missing copy of Access All Areas hiding behind it. Coincidence? I think not.
edit: this is actually true - I didn't make this up to be funny.




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