Fallout shelter
Subtitle: designing for civil defense in the Cold War
By: David Monteyne
Series: Architecture, landscape, and American culture series
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780816669752; 9780816669769
Subjects: Cold War; Architects in government; Architecture and state; Architecture and society; Fallout shelters; History
Other titles: Designing for civil defense in the Cold War
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Hypothetical Hiroshimas : city, suburb, and shelter in 1950s civil defense; title: Surveying the Cold War landscape : the national fallout shelter program fallout protection; title: Sheltering communities : city and social planning for civil defense; title: Design intellectuals : professional architects and civil defense; title: Performing architectural expertise : designs for fallout shelter fallout shelter design; title: Cold War constructions : fallout shelter in new buildings; title: Bunker architecture for the Cold War : Boston City Hall; title: Epilogue.