Urban exploration
The ‘Urbex’ phenomenon as a research site
Abstract
Urban Exploration (abbreviated as UrbEx) is an expression coined in 1996 by Jeff Chapman, founder of the magazine Infiltration: the zine about going places you're not supposed to go, to refer to visiting abandoned, forgotten sites hidden from the public, such as villas, churches, factories, hospitals, hotels, military facilities, tunnels, basements or entire countries, the ghost towns.
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