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Cold War Cities - Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945-1965 (Hardcover)
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Cold War Cities - Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945-1965 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Historical Geography
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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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