IDEAS Our underground future Buried nuclear plants? Subterranean stadiums? The next great frontier may just lie beneath our feet. (JESSE LEFKOWITZ FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE)

IDEAS

Our underground future

Buried nuclear plants? Subterranean stadiums? The next great frontier may just lie beneath our feet.

(JESSE LEFKOWITZ FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE)

Date June 25, 2012

Notes 4

Tags #underground    #engineering    #tunnels    #excavation    #Architecture    #subsurface    #urban planning   

Beneath Jerusalem, a city of the past - Underneath the crowded alleys and holy sites of old Jerusalem, hundreds of people are snaking at any given moment through tunnels, vaulted medieval chambers, and Roman sewers in a rapidly expanding subterranean city invisible from the streets above.

Beneath Jerusalem, a city of the past

- Underneath the crowded alleys and holy sites of old Jerusalem, hundreds of people are snaking at any given moment through tunnels, vaulted medieval chambers, and Roman sewers in a rapidly expanding subterranean city invisible from the streets above.

Date May 31, 2011

Notes 13

Tags #Archaeology    #Jerusalem    #Jewish rebels    #tunnels