1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Contents
Front matter; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; In the next war: the future of cities and the future of war; Planning a 'militant peace': air raid precautions for peace and for war; Cities under fire: the 'new blitz reality'; Seeing cities through bombsights: urban geographies of war after 1945; A 'peace that is no peace': reconstruction, defence and development in town and country; Conclusion: war without limits; Select bibliography; Index
Summary
Architectures of survival investigates how airpower influenced urbanism and debates about the future of cities in modern Britain. It traces the targeting of cities and militarisation of urban space from interwar to Cold War and highlights how air raids became incorporated into civilian planning debates about cities and infrastructure
Notes
Introduction1 In the next war: the future of cities and the future of war2 Planning a 'militant peace': air raid precautions for peace and for war3 Cities under fire: the 'new blitz reality'4 Seeing cities through bombsights: urban geographies of war after 19455 A peace that is no peace: reconstruction, defence and development in town and countryConclusion: the ordinariness of air raids?Index
