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A few older versions-- there is a famous 'underground city' in Edinburgh, left there essentially when the New Town was built flat, spick and span on a regular artificial level above-- the dips and troughs of the old city became a cavernous underworld. Historically, many people are meant to have continued living under there for a long time, generations developing a means of surviving there, some people not even bothering to look at the bright world above. Mary King's Close is the most famous and still visit-able example.
Also I found fascinating the articles about Georgian tunnels in Liverpool , created by a millionaire a couple of centuries ago. And in another case, the 'Underground Duke,' of Portland, who created warrens of rooms under the ground, including space for his horses to ride, at his home, Welbeck Abbey. (Cannot find any links that are up to scratch-- sorry).
Nothing to do with Tokyo (or of course You Only Live Twice, but some fascinating historical precedents nonetheless. As a cultural myth-type one, I remember when at school in Cold War days hearing that in the (genuinely hollowed-out) heart of the Rock of Gibraltar, there was a mock-up of Red Square where the Allies could practice manoeuvers... |
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