Fallout shelter [electronic resource] : designing for civil defense in the Cold War / David Monteyne.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Architecture, landscape, and American culture seriesPublication details: Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.Description: xxi, 348 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.)Other title:
  • Designing for civil defense in the Cold War
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 725/.9 22
LOC classification:
  • NA2543.S6 M66 2011eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- Hypothetical Hiroshimas : city, suburb, and shelter in 1950s civil defense -- Surveying the Cold War landscape : the national fallout shelter program fallout protection -- Sheltering communities : city and social planning for civil defense -- Design intellectuals : professional architects and civil defense -- Performing architectural expertise : designs for fallout shelter fallout shelter design -- Cold War constructions : fallout shelter in new buildings -- Bunker architecture for the Cold War : Boston City Hall -- Epilogue.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Hypothetical Hiroshimas : city, suburb, and shelter in 1950s civil defense -- Surveying the Cold War landscape : the national fallout shelter program fallout protection -- Sheltering communities : city and social planning for civil defense -- Design intellectuals : professional architects and civil defense -- Performing architectural expertise : designs for fallout shelter fallout shelter design -- Cold War constructions : fallout shelter in new buildings -- Bunker architecture for the Cold War : Boston City Hall -- Epilogue.

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