Survival City
Subtitle: adventures among the ruins of atomic America
By: Tom Vanderbilt.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Vanderbilt, Tom -- Travel -- West (U.S.); Cold War -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.); Nuclear weapons -- West (U.S.) -- Testing -- History -- 20th century; Landscape -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.); Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States; National characteristics, American; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; West (U.S.) -- History, Local; West (U.S.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Looking for Dr. Strangelove : the Cold War as archaeology; title: Dead city : the metropolis targeted; title: Survival City : this is only a test; title: The domestication of doomsday : new buildings for the perilous atomic age; title: The underground city: the architecture of disappearance; title: Twentieth-century castles : missile silos in the heartland; title: The secret landscape : some Cold War traces; title: Postscript: September 11, 2001.