Urbex a portmanteau of

Urbex a portmanteau of: Urbex a portmanteau of the word urban exploration is a growing recreational activity that thrives on exploring the abandoned ruins of places that have fallen into disuse. In the contemporary popular imagination, these sites are largely represented as dilapidated spaces of forgotten history. But this image is a misrepresentation of the process of how the physical world corrodes and decomposes from everyday use. In cities, development often comes from a process of planned obsolescence that advance