Cold War Cities : Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945–1965 (Hardcover)

Cold War Cities: Spatial Planning, Social and Political Processes, and Cultural Practices in the Age of Atomic Urbanism, 1945-1965Richard Brook, Martin Dodge and Jonathan Hogg Part 1: Planning the Cold War City 1. Properties of Science: How Industrial Research and the Suburbs Reshaped Each Other in Cold-War PittsburghPatrick Vitale 2. The City of Bristol: Ground Zero in the MakingBob Clarke 3. Towards a Prosperous Future Through Cold War Planning: Stalinist Urban Design in the Industrial Towns of Sillamae and Kohtla-Jarve, EstoniaSiim Sultson 4. Nuclear Anxiety in Postwar Japan’s City of the FutureSebastian Schmidt Visual Essay: Urbanism of Fear: A Tale of Two Chinese Cold War CitiesTong Lam Part 2: Building the Cold War City 5. The Warsaw Metro and the Warsaw Pact: From Deep Cover to Cut-and-CoverAlex Lawrey 6. Competing Militarisation and Urban Development During the Cold War: How a Soviet Air Base Came to Dominate Tartu, EstoniaDaniel B. Hess and Taavi Pae 7. In-Between the East and the West: Architecture and Urban Planning in ‘Non-Aligned’ SkopjeJasna Mariotti 8. Atomic Urbanism Under Greenland’s Ice Cap: Camp Century and Cold War Architectural ImaginationKristian H. Nielsen Visual Essay: Warfare or Welfare? Civil Defence and Emergency Planning in Danish Urban Welfare ArchitectureRosanna Farbøl Part 3: Culture and Politics in the Cold War City 9. Urban Space, Public Protest, and Nuclear Weapons in Early Cold War SydneyKyle Harvey 10. In the Middle of the Atomic Arena: Visible and Invisible NATO Sites in Verona During the Nineteen FiftiesMichela Morgante 11. Conceiving the Atomic Bomb Threat Between West and East: Mobilisation, Representation and Perception Against the A-bomb in 1950s Red BolognaEloisa Betti 12. Making a ‘Free World’ City: Urban Space and Social Order in Cold War BangkokMatthew Phillips Visual Essay: Cold War Telecommunication and Urban Vulnerability ? Underground Exchange and Microwave Tower in ManchesterMartin Dodge and Richard Brook