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

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ISBN 10: 0367619903 ISBN 13: 9780367619909

Verlag: Routledge, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Richard Brook is an architect and Reader at Manchester School of Architecture, UK. He is author of Manchester Modern (2017). He has talked, written, curated and published extensively on post-war British architecture. He researches the policies of planning and regulation and their impact on urban form.

Martin Dodge is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UK. His major research interests are currently visual culture and the politics of mapping, and infrastructural geographies read through historical and archival perspectives.

Jonathan Hogg is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has conducted extensive research on the cultural and social history of the British nuclear state. His recent publications offer a new interpretation of nuclear culture and the Cold War by tracing the tensions between 'official' and 'unofficial' nuclear narratives.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367619903
• ISBN 13: 9780367619909
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332
• Herausgeber: Brook Richard, Dodge Martin, Hogg Jonathan
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