Fallout shelter designing for civil defense in the Cold War / [electronic resource] :
Designing for civil defense in the Cold War
David Monteyne.
- Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
- xxi, 348 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.).
- Architecture, landscape, and American culture series .
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Architecture and society--History--United States--20th century. Architecture and state--History--United States--20th century. Architects in government--History--United States--20th century. Fallout shelters--Social aspects--United States. Cold War--Social aspects--United States.