Access All Areas: A User's Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration

Access All Areas: A User's Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration
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Urban Exploration 101

A great book by a great man

Every urban explorer's MUST HAVE guide.

A decent book about an interesting subject

Excellent read, even if you don't plan to infiltrate anything

Access All Areas: A User's Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration
Ninjalicious
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ASIN: 0973778709

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Discover a hidden world in your own city!

From Ninjalicious, the author of Infiltration zine, comes Access All Areas, the the first published guide to the exciting art of urban exploration, a rapidly growing hobby that allows participants to personally experience their cities’ hidden and off-limits spaces. Through chapters on topics like sneaking around, equipping and training, readers will learn the basics of the hobby, as well as about the most popular sites for urban exploration, such as abandoned buildings, construction sites, storm drains and utility tunnels.

Always an adventurer, Toronto author Ninjalicious began his intensive, thoroughly documented approach to exploration during a lengthy hospital stay, when boredom motivated him to explore the beautiful old building’s every nook and cranny. He began publishing the zine Infiltration in 1996, in conjunction with the website infiltration.org, which, with nearly 2,000 visitors a day, is widely considered to be an authoritative source on the hobby of urban exploration. Ninjalicious completed Access All Areas shortly before his untimely death from cancer in summer 2005.

Copies are available for online purchase at www.infilpress.com

Customer Reviews:

Urban Exploration 101.......2007-09-11

For anyone in the "Urban Exploration" scene, the name Ninjalicious is almost legendary. Not that he was one of the first to explore tunnels and old buildings, but he was one of the first to really achieve some level of fame for doing so. So the source for this information is more than credible.

If you are a veteran explorer, this book probably will not tell you much you don't already know. If you are just beginning to explore, this may be a helpful guide, but you'd be better off finding experienced people and going with them. A little experience and a good amount of common sense should see you through.

That said, I still would recommend this book to any active or armchair explorer. The author's humor makes reading this book a joy and the personal stories he includes are highly entertaining. So if nothing else, read it for fun. Plus, you never know. There may be a gem or 2 of wisdom in there for even the most veteran explorer.

A great book by a great man.......2007-01-12

As a long time urban explorer, this book didn't really tell me much I didn't already know or that a little common sense couldn't figure out once you have been to a few places. That fact notwithstanding, this is a great introductory book to the art of urban exploration, and I highly recommend it to anyone looking to get into the hobby. It has lots of good pointers that would have been a lot easier to read then they were to figure out in my own.

Every urban explorer's MUST HAVE guide........2007-01-10

A comprehensive book outlining the ins and outs of urban exploration; no stone is left unturned. If you're into urban exploration and photography, this book is an essential tool to enhance your adventures. Read it again and again and keep it in your camera bag/backpacks.

A decent book about an interesting subject.......2006-11-10

This book is a nice introduction to the world of urban exploration. At times, it is patronizing and sounds like it was written by a kid for a kid, but the spirit of the information is sound.

Excellent read, even if you don't plan to infiltrate anything.......2006-02-06

I grabbed this book from the library because the subject intrigued me - not because I plan to infiltrate anything, but rather just because I wanted to read about it. And what a great read it turned out to be. Ninjalicious writes very well and with a good sense of humour. He covers the subject thoroughly (I can't imagine he overlooked anything) and with a good attitude. I enjoyed the several brief anecdotes scattered throughout the book describing infiltrations which Ninjalicious conducted (and documented with photos), and I particularly enjoyed the chapter on social engineering (the principles of which are applicable to many day-to-day non-infiltration encounters). Highly recommended.

Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage: Global Norms and Urban Forms in the Age of Tourism

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Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando

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Mouse Myths
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Muckraking journalism... by an academic.......2003-05-01

Richard Foglesong is one hell of an investigative reporter. I know, I know - he's not a journalist, he's a college professor. But he writes like a journalist and reports like a journalist, and "Married To The Mouse" is a terrifically entertaining and penetrating look at the relationship between Disney and Orlando.

Unfortunately - and this only a minor point, really - Foglesong is also an academic. I say "unfortunately" because the academic portions of this book are far-and-away the least interesting. They are filled with urban planning buzzwords and jargon. They try to tie together in neat academic theories what were really power struggles between a big business and a comparatively small county government.

Foglesong is at his best when he tells us how things happened. How did Orlando build those roads that lured Disney to town? How did Disney get that crazy charter that makes the company an autonomous government? How did they abuse that charter to get perks that no other private business could dream of? How did Orlando and Orange County and Osceola County shirk their responsibilities to their taxpayers in failing to more forcefully confront Disney's abuses? These stories are told through detailed interviews and narrative-style writing that makes the tales engaging reads. It is in the best tradition of muckraking journalism.

Understand one thing: I like Disney World. I've been there many times. It's a fun place. I like Disney movies. I generally root for the Mouse. But I also despise abuses by large corporations. Disney is guilty of more than its share, and "Married To The Mouse" is the best account I've read of how and why that happened.

not an expose.......2002-05-15

I enjoyed this book and all the intricacies it points out about the Disney Conglomerate. Sometimes a little tangled and overdetailed, it examines the business aspects of the Disney Corporation. Not at all an expose of actual park practices, this book deals with the big business of urban planning, politics, and scuffle over Orlando public funding. Well written for a complicated topic.

not what I had expected.......2002-02-20

I found this book to drone on and on with unimportant details names, dates, etc. When reading about certain Disney law suits, the author would give a mini bio on every detail of every person who was in the courtroom! Not necessary, I wish he would have just stuck to the facts. There are other books out there with more disney information. Not enough facts about the parks, etc. And, it seemed to me that the objective was to turn the reader against the corporation, where infact I am still very pro-disney. Too bad if every other company in florida doesn't like the fact that disney has a "monopoly on the tourist spending" It just reaffirmed how brilliant the Disney Corporation really is.

Mouse Myths.......2001-09-11

The Mouse can't hide! In his book, Professor Foglesong untangles the myth that has kept Disneyphobes uneasy about the saccrine American Disney myth. (Did Eisner know that not all fairy tales end well, and that in nearly every case there is a dangerous presence lurking in the background or that prince is hardly ever what he seems to be.) Maybe Foglesong should have included divorce as a component of his marriage metaphor, but then, marriage dissolutions are costly, and prenuptual agreements usually just run up court costs.
This reader took pleasure both in the narrative style and the informative and honest appraisal of Florida's sleeping
dragon. (Anyone who is not convinced that something is not off kilter at the Magic Kingdon needs to visit Celebration. Could any Disney worker afford to live there?) While the writer tells the story without judgment (the mark of a good scholar who does his homework)-- Disney should beware; the truth is out.

Mouse Tales.......2001-08-02

Married to the mouse reads more like a novel than a critical analysis. This book presents an eye-opening account of the imbalance of power that should evermore taint Disney's percieved image as an All-American icon.

Initially my interest in the book was academic, but the more I read, the more I could see a variety of implications for business, personal, ethical and political issues.

Richard Foglesong has produced an extremely well-crafted work. Be prepared for an unexpected twist to an old story wisely and well told.

Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure
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Portal to somewhere else

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Since its origins in the muddy fields of flying machines, the airport has arguably become one of the defining institutions of modern life. In Naked Airport, critic Alastair Gordon ranges from global geopolitics to action movies to the daily commute, showing how airports have changed our sense of time, distance, style, and even the way cities are built and business is done. Gordon introduces the people who shaped this place of sudden transition: pilots like Charles Lindberg, architects like Eero Saarinen, politicians like Fiorello La Guardia, and Hitler, who built Berlin's Tempelhof as a showcase for Fascist power. He describes the airport's futuristic contributions, such as credit cards, in the form of fly-now-pay-later schemes, and he charts its shift in popular perception, from glamorous to infuriating. Finally, he analyzes the airport's function in war and peace-its gatekeeper role controlling immigration, its appeal to revolutionaries since the hijackings of the 1960s, and its new frontline position in the struggle against terror. Compelling and accessible, Naked Airport is an original history of a long-neglected yet central creation of modern reality and imagination.

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Portal to somewhere else.......2005-05-29

In its early years, air travel was a thrill for the rich. Today, it is boring, necessary and commonplace. Through well-written stories and narrative history, this easy read gives a history of air travel from the perspective of the architectural structures that support it. As our understanding of air travel has changed, airport architecture has changed as well. There is now more glass and more security, painfully long passageways, more roadway than runway and, of course, acres of parking. One thing has not changed: the airport has always been a portal to somewhere else. Airports are the waiting rooms of adventure and freedom. Naked Airport gives insight into the challenge of making these waiting rooms less purgatorial.

I share the opinion of the other reviewer who says that the last part of the book is not as strong as the first. For example, there is no discussion of important recent developments such e-ticket kiosks and wireless networks. Even with this shortcoming, I still recommend this one.

Naked Airport - Good Book.......2005-04-09

As an Architect, I found Mr. Gordon's book to be a very accessible read. This is not a coffee table book with glossy photographs and difficult to comprehend architectural theory. Instead he gives a very clear overview of the development of the airport building type, much like The Architecture of Diplomacy by Jane Loeffler does. He uses simple and tasteful photographs and graphics pared with a well written history. I would give this book a high mark and recommend it for both architects and non-architect. Thank you, Alastair Gordon for a nicely written book.

Gregory Knoop
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Airport Reverie.......2005-03-16

Alastair Gordon is at his best describing airport construction from the mid-1930s WPA era through the early 1960s. At one point, in fact, he says, "It would be nice to imagine a brief period, a golden moment, somewhere between say 1958 and 1963 ... when advanced technology and American-style marketing produced a perfect, jet-setting age of travel." Instead of devoting energy to a new preservationist movement for airports built during that period (for example, Saarinen's TWA terminal at JFK), Gordon bathes in reverie from this point of the book all the way to the end.

We are doomed to anonymous, repetitive styles in airports, he says, and promptly contradicts this assertion with descriptions of attempts to humanize airports constructed or refitted within the past five years. I can understand him being in love with airports of the late 50s and early 60s, since I am too. But this should not preclude his being fair with the newest efforts to make airports wonderful today. And some of these efforts are really impressive.

Be fair, Alastair! We keep flying; new passenger planes are more comfortable and more efficient (like the 777). Airports are improving, too. Don't lose your sense of wonder and leave your readers dehydrated...the best is yet to come.

A must for even the most expert traveler.......2005-01-04

Even for the most expert traveler, the Naked Airport will shed light on many facets of airports domestically and abroad. For instance, did you know that there are over 200 old bank safes in the landfill at Newark (EWR)? The history is layed out cronologically, but woven with social, political, economic and business history, such that it is any interesting narrative rather than a dry recitation of facts.

Alastair Gordon has done it again!.......2004-11-09

Through the pages of Naked Airport, Alastair Gordon examines the history of the world's most diverse structures. Going well beyond the architecture, this book explores airports in their historical and cultural context, defining well known edifices by identifying their place in the 20th century timeline.

I really enjoyed this book. Through a vivid and compelling narrative, Gordon manages to transport the reader to key points in time. Imagine attending the dedication of the New York Municipal Airport on October 15, 1939, where three skywriting planes circle overhead spelling out the words "NAME IT LA GUARDIA AIRPORT." The audience bursts into applause. Or picture being one of the first New York passengers in the early 1970s to walk through an electromagnetic gateway, a newly installed anti-terrorist device.

Naked Airport is perhaps the most comprehensive statement on airport architecture, history and culture to date. It is a must-read for history buffs and casual readers alike.

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Managing Tourism Growth: Issues And Applications

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The Colaborative Vision applied to tourism planning process
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Read this book before arguing over tourism regulation.

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Tourism is by many measures the world's largest and fastest growing industry, and it provides myriad benefits to hosts and visitors alike. Yet if poorly managed, tourism can have serious negative impacts on tourist communities-their environment, physical appearance, economy, health, safety, and even their social values.

Managing Tourism Growth analyzes and evaluates methods by which communities can carefully control tourism in order to maximize the positive aspects while minimizing the detrimental effects. The authors offer vivid examples of the ways in which uncontrolled tourism can adversely affect a community, and explain how to create an effective strategy that can protect tourism resources for current and future generations.

Specific chapters provide detailed descriptions and evaluations of various approaches that communities around the world have successfully used. The authors examine alternative legal and regulatory measures, management techniques, and incentives that target tourism growth at all levels, from the quality of development, to its amount and rate of growth, to the locations in which it takes place. Approaches examined include: quality differentiation, performance standards, and trade-off strategies; preservation rules, growth limitations, and incremental growth strategies; expansion, dispersal, and concentration strategies, and identification of new tourism resources. The final chapter presents a concise and useful checklist of the elements of successful strategies that can help guide destination communities in the planning process.

An outstanding feature of the book is the numerous and varied case studies it offers, including Santa Fe, New Mexico; Milford Sound, New Zealand; Nusa Dua, Bali; Great Barrier Reef, Australia; Sanibel, Florida; Canterbury, England; Republic of Maldives; Bruges, Belgium; Times Square, New York; Papua New Guinea; Park City, Utah; Whistler, British Columbia; and many others.

The depth and accessibility of information provided, along with the wealth of global case studies, make the book must-reading for planning professionals, government officials, tourism industry executives, consultants, and faculty and students of geography, planning, or tourism.

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The Colaborative Vision applied to tourism planning process.......2001-06-14

The Colaborative Vision applied to tourism planning process:

This book talk about the tourism growth to the perspective of sustanaible development, but give the global VISION. This VISION is very usefull because is based on System General Theory, and plus to this logic structure the COLABORATIVE activities establishing dynamic relationship between the components of Industry Tourism-System, the core of this book is the Community Participation towards to Common-Pool Resuorces Paradigm,in all cases relationated to tourism, for instance: in development, in perception , in behavior , and so on. For other hand, the management process is presented like the vehicule to perform any activitie or program or project in this study-object. My atention for this book was determine by the "system-process of management" , structured by a set of administrative conceptual focus: overall RESILIENCY and sustainability, efficiency and equity too. And in the Management is very important understand in really dimension the Strategies Process. So on..

I believe that this book is very usefull to create an advanced VISION of the component of Tourism Industry and the Management Process towards Sustainable Development. The book require previous studies about Management, Administrative Science, System Theory, System Analysis and Game Theory.

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A very good overview, well-written and well structured book........2000-04-24

The cases studied are very updated and they analyze several situation at many countries(on unusual economics situations).

Read this book before arguing over tourism regulation........1999-10-20

This survey is an essential resource for tourism supporters, opponents, regulators, and anyone else wants to understand what can happen and what can be done when the rest of the world finds out what a nice place you have.

It's basically a casebook, with a sturdy analytical framework to help you compare the cases. The authors describe regulatory systems for managing community tourism resources to control quality, to control quantity, to enhance the market, or some combination of these. Examples are provided from about 30 communities in the U.S. and around the world.

The book includes a particularly valuable collection of notes that should help readers track down further resources and contacts.

I'm a local government staffer for a city of 30,000 that has seen its tourism traffic swell to 700,000 people per summer, with daily loads up to 10,000. This book provides some comfort in knowing that we are not alone in this remarkable experience, and we can learn from what others have tried.

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Understanding Urban Tourism applies methods and concepts that are currently transforming our understanding of society in other areas of social sciences and applying them to urban tourism. With an emphasis on image, culture and experience, the author draws upon the "cultural turn" to explain the human aspects of the urban tourism phenomenon. He emphasizes the significance of urban tourism within debates upon the contemporary city, postmodernity and the pursuit of social science. Clearly written, with case studies and further reading, Martin Selby's textbook reveals the rich potential of contemporary social science for urban tourism. It will be welcomed by students and lecturers in related disciplines.

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It reached me within the promised time. It looks the same as was promised. Everything is ok. I think this is a nice shopping experience.

Going deeper in urban tourism jungle.......2004-08-23

In this fascinating book Martin Selby takes the reader deeper into urban tourism jungle than any other writer on the subject. A must read for all aspiring and experienced urban tourism researchers.

An excellent resource.......2004-08-21

This book truly provides a more indepth understanding of the urban tourism experience and the various disciplinary perspectives from which it can be studied and measured. In addition to the highly informative nature of the content, the chapters are very well structured and the case studies extremely valuable, so that the book will be an excellent addition to teaching material for urban tourism and urban planning.

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Tourists and travelers in the early nineteenth century saw American cities as ugly spaces, lacking the art and history that attracted thousands to the great cities of Europe. By the turn of the century, however, city touring became popular in the United States, and the era saw the rise of elegant hotels, packaged tours, and train travel to cities for vacations that would entertain and edify. This fascinating cultural history, studded with vivid details bringing the experience of Victorian-era travel alive, explores the beginnings of urban tourism, and sets the phenomenon within a larger cultural transformation that encompassed fundamental changes in urban life and national identity.
Focusing mainly on New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, Catherine Cocks describes what it was like to ride on Pullman cars, stay in the grand hotels, and take in the sights of the cities. Her evocative narrative draws on innovative readings of sources such as guidebooks, travel accounts, tourist magazines, and the journalism of the era. Exploring the full cultural context in which city touring became popular, Cocks ties together many themes in urban and cultural history for the first time, such as the relationships among class, gender, leisure, and the uses and perceptions of urban space. Offering especially lively reading, Doing the Town provides a memorable journey into the experience of the new urban tourist at the same time as it makes a sophisticated contribution to our understanding of the urban and cultural development of the United States.

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