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Cold War cities [electronic resource] : politics, culture and atomic urbanism, 1945-1965 / edited by Richard Brook, Martin Dodge and Jonathan Hogg

Contributor(s): Brook, Richard, 1975- | Dodge, Martin, 1971- | Hogg, Jonathan, 1979-Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781351330657; 1351330659; 9780203701478; 020370147X; 9781351330640; 1351330640; 9781351330633; 1351330632Subject(s): City planning -- History -- 20th century | Cold War -- Influence | Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects | SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human GeographyDDC classification: 307.121609045 LOC classification: HT166Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement

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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 City1. Properties of Science: How Industrial Research and the Suburbs Reshaped Each Other in Cold-War Pittsburgh Patrick Vitale2. 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 Sultson4. Nuclear Anxiety in Postwar Japan's City of the Future Sebastian SchmidtVisual Essay: Urbanism of Fear: A Tale of Two Chinese Cold War Cities Tong LamPart 2: Building the Cold War City5. 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 Pae7. 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. NielsenVisual Essay: Warfare or Welfare? Civil Defence and Emergency Planning in Danish Urban Welfare Architecture Rosanna FarbølPart 3: Culture and Politics in the Cold War City9. Urban Space, Public Protest, and Nuclear Weapons in Early Cold War Sydney Kyle Harvey10. 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

Summary: This book examines the impact of the Cold War in a global context and focuses on city-scale reactions to the atomic warfare. It explores urbanism as a weapon to combat the dangers of the communist intrusion into the American territories and promote living standards for the urban poor in the US cities. The Cold War saw the birth of atomic urbanisation', central to which were planning, politics and cultural practices of the newly emerged cities. This book examines cities in the Arctic, Europe, Asia and Australasia in detail to reveal how military, political, resistance and cultural practices impacted on the spaces of everyday life. It probes questions of city planning and development, such as: How did the threat of nuclear war affect planning at a range of geographic scales? What were the patterns of the built environment, architectural forms and material aesthetics of atomic urbanism in difference places? And, how did the Bomb' manifest itself in civic governance, popular media, arts and academia? Understanding the age of atomic urbanism can help meet the contemporary challenges that cities are facing. The book delivers a new dimension to the existing debates of the ideologically opposed superpowers and their allies, their hemispherical geopolitical struggles, and helps to understand decades of growth post-Second World Warby foregrounding the Cold War.

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This book examines the impact of the Cold War in a global context and focuses on city-scale reactions to the atomic warfare. It explores urbanism as a weapon to combat the dangers of the communist intrusion into the American territories and promote living standards for the urban poor in the US cities. The Cold War saw the birth of atomic urbanisation', central to which were planning, politics and cultural practices of the newly emerged cities. This book examines cities in the Arctic, Europe, Asia and Australasia in detail to reveal how military, political, resistance and cultural practices impacted on the spaces of everyday life. It probes questions of city planning and development, such as: How did the threat of nuclear war affect planning at a range of geographic scales? What were the patterns of the built environment, architectural forms and material aesthetics of atomic urbanism in difference places? And, how did the Bomb' manifest itself in civic governance, popular media, arts and academia? Understanding the age of atomic urbanism can help meet the contemporary challenges that cities are facing. The book delivers a new dimension to the existing debates of the ideologically opposed superpowers and their allies, their hemispherical geopolitical struggles, and helps to understand decades of growth post-Second World Warby foregrounding the Cold War.

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