Resources

You will find below a list of books and videos which have been helpful/useful to us over the years.  Look these over if you wish to learn more about exploration, infrastructure or industry. Most of what you need to know to get started is listed under the ‘How to’ section.

 

How to / Start Here

 

Access All Areas : A User Guide to Urban Exploration by Ninjalicious

 

Lost Rivers (Toronto)

 

Photo how to by Dsankt of Sleepycity

 

Predator’s Approach to Draining on Sleepycity

 

Infiltration

 

Urban Exploration Resource

 

Books

 

Abandoned Places I & II  by Henk van Rensbergen
Beneath the Metropolis: The secret lives of Cities by Alex Marshal

 

Corporate Wasteland : The Landscape and memory of Deindustrialization  by Steven High & David Lewis

 

Engineering the city: How infrastructure works  by Mathhys Levy & Richard Panchyk

 

HTO: Toronto’s water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low Flow Toilets  by Wayne Reeves & Christina Palassio

 

Infrastructure: A field guide to the industrial landscape  by Brian Hayes

 

Ontario’s Historic Mills  by George Fisher & Mark Harris

The works: Anatomy of the City  by Kate Ascher

 

 

Video/Media

 

Dark Days

 

Echoes of Forgotten Places

 

Urban Explorers : Into the Darkness