Survival City : adventures among the ruins of atomic America

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Title:

Survival City : adventures among the ruins of atomic America

Author:

Vanderbilt, Tom.

Personal Author:

Vanderbilt, Tom.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2002]

Physical Description:

228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

Introduction: Looking for Dr. Strangelove : the Cold War as archaeology -- Dead city : the metropolis targeted -- Survival City : this is only a test -- The domestication of doomsday : new buildings for the perilous atomic age -- The underground city : the architecture of disappearance -- Twentieth-century castles : missile silos in the heartland -- The secret landscape : some Cold War traces -- Postscript : September 11, 2001.

Personal Subject:

Vanderbilt, Tom-Travel-West (U. S.)

Subject Term:

Cold War -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.)

Nuclear weapons -- West (U.S.) -- Testing -- History -- 20th century.

Landscapes -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.)

Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States.

National characteristics, American.

Geographic Term:

West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.

West (U.S.) -- History, Local.

West (U.S.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.