contemplative urbanism
Introduction
Urban Exploration (in English: Urban Exploration, often abbreviated as urbex or UE) is the hobby of visiting buildings that are generally abandoned,[1] usually located in areas far from urban centers, such as industrial estates. It also applies to any clandestine access to in-use but difficult-to-access infrastructure, such as sewers.[2] It is also known as infiltration, although some consider infiltration to be more closely associated with the exploration of inhabited sites.
This activity presents various risks, including physical risks due to accidents or landslides, the possibility of arrest and punishment for trespassing on private property or encountering aggressive people in buildings.[3].
abandoned places
One of the most widespread types of industrial tourism is visiting disused sites. They can be buildings of unfinished constructions, once in operation, industrial and military facilities, abandoned houses, neighborhoods and even cities (the so-called ghost towns). Wide spread of this type of industrial tourism, it seems, can be affected by relatively low health risk. Possible risks may be the sudden collapse of structures, stray dogs, chemical contamination, etc. In most cases, the purpose of this type of tourism is to achieve contemplative pleasure; many of these researchers are photographers.
Explorers tend not to publicize the location of detected objects or reveal their location, believing that this may attract the authorities or cause a large influx of tourists or other people who want to destroy the place. The researchers' philosophy is to leave the place intact, just as they left it from the first day after its abandonment to preserve its aesthetics and naturalness.
Underground structures
In Russian, Diggerstvo word comes from Digger (from the English to dig – to dig). Diggers, thus the self-proclaimed ones who are dedicated to the investigation of underground structures built by man with the use of construction materials and technologies. For example, drainage systems, sewers, underground rivers, industrial tunnels. Of particular interest to diggers are abandoned subway stations, called . This type of industrial tourism also requires serious physical training and special equipment.