Dubbed Dìxià Chéng, this underground city lies beneath Beijing's vibrant streets ... remain undiscovered by those unfamiliar with their locations. Most of the current residents, totaling ...

said they serve as an alternative solution to a problem faced by city dwellers everywhere. “Of course, no one would prefer to live underground, but there was a strong preference to location.

DEEP beneath Beijing lies an underground city once home to a million people ... but there was a strong preference for location. “What happens in most parts of the world is affordable-housing ...

In Beijing, anywhere between 100,000 to one ... For foreigners, it can be difficult to gain access to this underground shelter city. In 2015, the Italian photographer Antonio Faccilongo managed ...

“Let’s see it, not hear about it,” they pleaded. To get to the Beijing Underground City, visitors must descend steep concrete stairs 30 feet into the cold, damp bedrock to walk a small loop ...

Annette Kim, a professor at the University of Southern California, has mapped Beijing’s underground city by studying more than 7,000 online rental ads. She found the median size was 9.75 square ...

For more than 20 years, Beijing’s Underground City, a bomb shelter just beneath the ancient capital’s downtown area, has been virtually forgotten by local citizens, despite being well-known ...

Now when night falls, more than a million people—mostly migrant workers and students from rural areas—vanish from Beijing’s bustling streets into the underground universe, little known to ...

The Beijing underground system was established in 1971 and has grown significantly since then. It now connects many different areas of the city with a vast network. With around 27 lines ...

Annette Kim, a professor at the University of Southern California, has mapped Beijing’s underground city by studying more than 7,000 online rental ads. She found the median size was 9.75 square ...