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Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. He details the emergence of the vertical city in the imagination of 19th century Paris and London, a city whose ground level was replete with passages between above and below.David L. Pike is the author of 'Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001', published 2007 under ISBN 9780801444906 and ISBN 080144490X.
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