Meaning of urban exploration | Babel Free

Definitions

The exploration of man-made, particularly urban, environments; such exploration in places which are not normally accessible due to prohibited access or abandonment.

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Examples

“While there are people living beneath Manhattan — most of them addicts or mentally ill — many of Toth's claims of thousands of people living in quasi-tribes have been cast into doubt by the urban exploration community.”

“Urban exploration verges toward transgression without ever shattering it. Yet while urban exploration retains a purely inquisitive outlook, whereby exploration is conceived of in moralistic terms, its gradual reliance on a transgressive outlook is inevitable.”

“These counterpoints can't really be forced in an urban exploration setting, but keep your eye out for locations that offer them.”

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