Adam Page

Architectures of survival

Air war and urbanism in Britain, 1935-52

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781526122582
• ISBN-10: 1526122588
• Artikelnr.: 53564183

Autorenporträt

Adam Page is Lecturer in History at the University of Lincoln

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 In the next war: the future of cities and the future of war
2 Planning a 'militant peace': air raid precautions for peace and for war 3
Cities under fire: the 'new blitz reality' 4 Seeing cities through
bombsights: urban geographies of war after 1945 5 A peace that is no peace:
reconstruction, defence and development in town and country Conclusion: the
ordinariness of air raids? Index