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Beyond the map : unruly enclaves, ghostly places, emerging lands and our search for new utopias / Alastair Bonnett.

by Bonnett, Alastair, 1964-

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The University of Chicago Press, c2018.

Geography -- Miscellanea.

Curiosities and wonders.

296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Unruly islands. Les minquiers ; The United States minor outlying islands and the united micronations multi-oceanic archipelago ; The new spratly islands ; Bothnia's rising islands ; The Philippines' 534 discoveries ; Wild strawberries: traffic island -- Enclaves and uncertain nations. The Ladin Valleys ; The eruv at Bondi Beach ; The Ferghana Valley ; The Saharan sand wall ; New Russia ; The sovereign military order of Malta ; The Stratford Republic -- Utopian places. The Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant ; Cybertopia ; The new nomads ; Nek Chand's rock garden ; Christiania ; Helsinki wild harvest ; City of helicopters ; City without ground -- Ghostly places. The phantom tunnel of Shinjuku station ; Skywalks ; The boys village ; British graveyard, Shimla ; Dau movie set ; Magical London ; Tsunami stones and nuclear markers -- Hidden places. Garbage city, Cairo ; Off street view: hidden hills and the slums of Wanathamulla ; Trap streets ; The uncharted Congo -- Flat 2, 18 Royston Mains street, Edinburgh ; Spikescape ; Yulin underground naval base, Hainan Island ; Under Jerusalem -- Doggerland -- The New Arctic -- Conshelf undersea station -- Epilogue.

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