Cold War Cities:Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945–1965
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 citie...
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ftumanchesterpub:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/f933f286-ce92-49b6-b7fa-18dbfb617b83 2023-11-12T04:13:17+01:00 Cold War Cities:Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945–1965 Brook, Richard Dodge, Martin Hogg, Jonathan 2020-12-21 https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/f933f286-ce92-49b6-b7fa-18dbfb617b83 https://www.routledge.com/Cold-War-Cities-Politics-Culture-and-Atomic-Urbanism-19451965/Brook-Dodge-Hogg/p/book/9781138573611 eng eng Routledge info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Brook , R , Dodge , M & Hogg , J (ed.) 2020 , Cold War Cities : Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945–1965 . Routledge Research in Historical Geography , 1st edn , Routledge , London . < https://www.routledge.com/Cold-War-Cities-Politics-Culture-and-Atomic-Urbanism-19451965/Brook-Dodge-Hogg/p/book/9781138573611 > book 2020 ftumanchesterpub 2023-10-30T09:14:47Z 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 War by foregrounding the Cold War. Book Arctic The University of Manchester: Research Explorer |
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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 War by foregrounding the Cold War. |
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Brook , R , Dodge , M & Hogg , J (ed.) 2020 , Cold War Cities : Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945–1965 . Routledge Research in Historical Geography , 1st edn , Routledge , London . < https://www.routledge.com/Cold-War-Cities-Politics-Culture-and-Atomic-Urbanism-19451965/Brook-Dodge-Hogg/p/book/9781138573611 > |
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