Urbex
"Urbex" in a Sentence (3 examples)
Simon didn't need reminding about the dangers of urbex, but Matt was on a roll.[…]It had been Matt's blog that had got Simon into urbex.
For example, in Belgium, we have some great urbex (urban exploration) locations (old empty buildings) where you can go and shoot.
Ultimately, urbex remains a kind of cipher—occasionally, it catches media attention, and is grouped with other subcultures, like parkour, or even steampunk (Dawdy 2010), that are somehow "remixing" or renegotiating ways to relate to space, and how particular spaces are envisioned to exist within time.
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