Explore Everything - 9781781681299

It is assumed that the world has been explored and charted; that there is nowhere new to go. But perhaps it is the everyday places around us – the cities we live in – that need to be rediscovered. What does it feel like to find the city’s edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale high above the metropolis upon unfinished skyscrapers? Explore Everything reclaims the city, recasting it as a place for endless adventures.

Plotting expeditions from London, Paris, Berlin, Detroit, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Bradley L. Garrett has evaded urban security in order to experience the city in ways beyond the conventional boundaries of everyday life. He calls it ‘place hacking’: the recoding of closed, secret, hidden and forgotten urban spaces into realms of opportunity.

Explore Everything is an account of his escapades with the London Consolidation Crew, an urban exploration collective, as well as an urbanist manifesto on rights to the city that inspires new ways of belonging in and understanding the metropolis. It is a passionate declaration to “explore everything,” combining philosophy, politics and adventure.