Adventurous Vents: A Journey through the Ventilation Shafts of Britain Landscape Architecture and whether it's helping or

and whether it's helping or hindering them

such as King's Cross

This book recounts the history of the West End streets built in that Georgian phase: Alva Street

structures and images were created in Scotland as architects and designers incorporated features of Art Deco and moderne into their work

Adventurous Vents: A Journey through the Ventilation Shafts of Britain Landscape Architecture and whether it's helping orAt the heart of the modern world lie ventilation shafts. We may not notice them, but wherever there are tunnels, sewers, mines, car parks and energy stations under our feet, vents will be doing vital work keeping them cool and fume free. Vents come in a wonderful and inventive variety of forms. This book celebrates them both in their own right as intriguing individual structures, and as an innovative way to tell the story of Britain's subterranean