Monteyne, David.

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.


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2011.
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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.


Electronic books.

NA2543.S6 / M66 2011eb

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