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Author Brook, Richard

Title Cold War Cities Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945-1965
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (333 p.)
Series Routledge Research in Historical Geography Ser
Routledge Research in Historical Geography Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Cold War Cities: Spatial Planning, Social and Political Processes, and Cultural Practices in The Age of Atomic Urbanism, 1945-1965 -- Part I: Planning The Cold War City -- 1 Properties of Science: How Industrial Research and The Suburbs Reshaped Each Other in Cold War Pittsburgh -- 2 The City of Bristol: Ground Zero in The Making -- 3 Towards A Prosperous Future Through Cold War Planning: Stalinist Urban Design in The Industrial Towns of Sillamäe and Kohtla-Järve, Estonia
4 Nuclear Anxiety in Postwar Japan's City of The Future -- Visual Essay: Urbanism of Fear: A Tale of Two Chinese Cold War Cities -- Part II: Building The Cold War City -- 5 The Warsaw Metro and The Warsaw Pact: From Deep Cover To Cut-And-Cover -- 6 Competing Militarisation and Urban Development During The Cold War: How A Soviet Air Base Came To Dominate Tartu, Estonia -- 7 In-Between The East and The West: Architecture and Urban Planning in 'Non-Aligned' Skopje -- 8 Atomic Urbanism Under Greenland'S Ice Cap: Camp Century and Cold War Architectural Imagination
Visual Essay: Welfare Or Warfare? Civil Defence in Danish Urban Welfare Architecture -- Part III: Culture and Politics in The Cold War City -- 9 Urban Space, Public Protest, and Nuclear Weapons in Early Cold War Sydney -- 10 in The Middle of The Atomic Arena: Visible and Invisible NATO Sites in Verona During The Fifties -- 11 Conceiving The Atomic Bomb Threat Between West and East: Mobilisation, Representation and Perception Against The A-Bomb in 1950S Red Bologna -- 12 Making A 'Free World' City: Urban Space and Social Order in Cold War Bangkok
Visual Essay: Cold War Telecommunication and Urban Vulnerability: Underground Exchange and Microwave Tower In Manchester -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
Author Dodge, Martin
Hogg, Jonathan
ISBN 9781351330657
1351330659