The Blitz and Its Legacy is a fascinating volume which includes war experiences of destruction, architecture, urban design, the political process of planning and reconstruction, and also popular perceptions of rebuilding. Its findings provide very timely lessons which highlight the value of learning from historical precedent. Drawing together leading scholars and new researchers from across the fields of planning, history, architecture and geography, this volume presents an historical and cultural commentary on the immediate and longer-term impacts of wartime destruction.
The Blitz and Its Legacy is a fascinating volume which includes war experiences of destruction, architecture, urban design, the political process of planning and reconstruction, and also popular perceptions of rebuilding. Its findings provide very timely lessons which highlight the value of learning from historical precedent. Drawing together leading scholars and new researchers from across the fields of planning, history, architecture and geography, this volume presents an historical and cultural commentary on the immediate and longer-term impacts of wartime destruction.
Contents: The Blitz its experiences its consequences Mark Clapson and Peter J. Larkham; La ville éventrée: or how bombing turned the city inside out Lindsey Dodd; Holiday camps castles and stately homes: the residential option for the evacuation of disabled children during World War II Sue Wheatcroft; A service forged in the flames: the Blitz wartime fire-fighting and the National Fire Service Shane Ewen; Between destruction and reconstruction: London's Debris Clearance and Repair Organisation 1939-1945 Robin Woolven; The people's peace: the myth of wartime unity and public consent for town planning Susanne Cowan; Reconstruction constraints: political and economic realities Catherine Flinn; Destruction and dispersal: the Blitz and the 'break-up' of working-class London Mark Clapson; Tradition and modernity: architecture in Japan after Hiroshima Neil Jackson; Reconstruction civic authority in post-war Germany Jeffry M. Diefendorf; Bold planning mixed experiences: the diverse fortunes of post-war Birmingham David Adams and Peter J. Larkham; Planning the reconstruction of war-damaged Plymouth 1941-1961: devising and defending a modernisation agenda Stephen Essex and Mark Brayshay; Destruction revival and reconstruction across Alsace and Lorraine 1939-1960 Hugh Clout; Problems of blitz reconstruction in Japan: the case of Sendai Junichi Hasegawa; Index.
Contents: The Blitz its experiences its consequences Mark Clapson and Peter J. Larkham; La ville éventrée: or how bombing turned the city inside out Lindsey Dodd; Holiday camps castles and stately homes: the residential option for the evacuation of disabled children during World War II Sue Wheatcroft; A service forged in the flames: the Blitz wartime fire-fighting and the National Fire Service Shane Ewen; Between destruction and reconstruction: London's Debris Clearance and Repair Organisation 1939-1945 Robin Woolven; The people's peace: the myth of wartime unity and public consent for town planning Susanne Cowan; Reconstruction constraints: political and economic realities Catherine Flinn; Destruction and dispersal: the Blitz and the 'break-up' of working-class London Mark Clapson; Tradition and modernity: architecture in Japan after Hiroshima Neil Jackson; Reconstruction civic authority in post-war Germany Jeffry M. Diefendorf; Bold planning mixed experiences: the diverse fortunes of post-war Birmingham David Adams and Peter J. Larkham; Planning the reconstruction of war-damaged Plymouth 1941-1961: devising and defending a modernisation agenda Stephen Essex and Mark Brayshay; Destruction revival and reconstruction across Alsace and Lorraine 1939-1960 Hugh Clout; Problems of blitz reconstruction in Japan: the case of Sendai Junichi Hasegawa; Index.
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