Urban exploration for me is as much about the abandonments as it is about the inner exploration. The silence of the abandonments gives me time to reflect; urban exploration often becomes a meditative state. Seeing the decay of the past allows me to reflect on the possibilities of the future – Chris Luckhardt
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Other Names for Urban Exploration
Other names used for Urban exploration are draining, urban spelunking, urban caving, vadding, building hacking, reality hacking and roof and tunnel hacking.
via Urban Exploration and Abandoned Buildings. (My original source for this is gone.)
I hadn’t heard of all those. But, they make sense.
Destroyed and Abandoned
All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city’s monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.
– Nathan Reese Maher
HowStuffWorks “Urban Explorers’ Motivations”
This kind of observation isn’t too far removed from urban anthropology, in which people study society by examining its discarded past.
Whatever his or her motive, an urban explorer finds adventure in these abandoned sites. There’s a peacefulness in these empty, concrete caves that isn’t like the solitude found in the woods. It’s an experience opposite of nature; instead of finding reassurance in the renewal of the seasons, the urban explorer finds kinship with the past.
Old Buildings are not Ours
Lovely quote. I posted it to the Ontario Rural Ruins group on Flickr too.
Old buildings are not ours. They belong, partly to those who built them, and partly to the generations of Mankind who are to follow us. The dead still have their right in them: that which they labored for…we have no right to obliterate. What we ourselves have built, we are at liberty to throw down. But what other men gave their strength, and wealth, and life to accomplish, their right over it does not pass away with their death. – John Ruskin