Cold War cities : politics, culture and atomic urbanism, 1945-1965 /: politics, culture and atomic urbanism, 1945-1965. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Richard Brook, Martin Dodge, Jonathan Hogg.
• Editors: Brook, Richard, 1975-; Dodge, Martin, 1971-; Hogg, Jonathan, 1979-
• Contents: Cold War Cities: Spatial Planning, Social and Political Processes, and Cultural Practices in the Age of Atomic Urbanism, 1945-1965; Richard Brook, Martin Dodge and Jonathan Hogg Part 1: Planning the Cold War City 1. Properties of Science: How Industrial Research and the Suburbs Reshaped Each Other in Cold-War Pittsburgh; Patrick Vitale 2. The City of Bristol: Ground Zero in the Making; Bob Clarke 3. Towards a Prosperous Future Through Cold War Planning: Stalinist Urban Design in the Industrial Towns of Sillamäe and Kohtla-Järve, Estonia; Siim Sultson 4. Nuclear Anxiety in Postwar Japan’s City of the Future; Sebastian Schmidt Visual Essay: Urbanism of Fear: A Tale of Two Chinese Cold War Cities; Tong Lam Part 2: Building the Cold War City 5. The Warsaw Metro and the Warsaw Pact: From Deep Cover to Cut-and-Cover; Alex Lawrey 6. Competing Militarisation and Urban Development During the Cold War: How a Soviet Air Base Came to Dominate Tartu, Estonia; Daniel B. Hess and Taavi Pae 7. In-Between the East and the West: Architecture and Urban Planning in ‘Non-Aligned’ Skopje; Jasna Mariotti 8. Atomic Urbanism Under Greenland’s Ice Cap: Camp Century and Cold War Architectural Imagination; Kristian H. Nielsen Visual Essay: Warfare or Welfare? Civil Defence and Emergency Planning in Danish Urban Welfare Architecture; Rosanna Farbøl Part 3: Culture and Politics in the Cold War City 9. Urban Space, Public Protest, and Nuclear Weapons in Early Cold War Sydney; Kyle Harvey 10. In the Middle of the Atomic Arena: Visible and Invisible NATO Sites in Verona During the Nineteen Fifties; Michela Morgante 11. Conceiving the Atomic Bomb Threat Between West and East: Mobilisation, Representation and Perception Against the A-bomb in 1950s Red Bologna; Eloisa Betti 12. Making a ‘Free World’ City: Urban Space and Social Order in Cold War Bangkok; Matthew Phillips Visual Essay: Cold War Telecommunication and Urban Vulnerability – Underground Exchange and Microwave Tower in Manchester; Martin Dodge and Richard Brook
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 307.121609045; City planning -- History -- 20th century; Cold War -- Influence; Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351330640; 9781351330657; 9781351330633; 9780203701478
• Related ISBNs: 9781138573611
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