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Book Fallout Shelter

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Monteyne
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2013-11-30
  • ISBN : 1452925437
  • Pages : 511 pages

Download or read book Fallout Shelter written by David Monteyne and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961, reacting to U.S. government plans to survey, design, and build fallout shelters, the president of the American Institute of Architects, Philip Will, told the organization’s members that “all practicing architects should prepare themselves to render this vital service to the nation and to their clients.” In an era of nuclear weapons, he argued, architectural expertise could “preserve us from decimation.” In Fallout Shelter, David Monteyne traces the partnership that developed between architects and civil defense authorities during the 1950s and 1960s. Officials in the federal government tasked with protecting American citizens and communities in the event of a nuclear attack relied on architects and urban planners to demonstrate the importance and efficacy of both purpose-built and ad hoc fallout shelters. For architects who participated in this federal effort, their involvement in the national security apparatus granted them expert status in the Cold War. Neither the civil defense bureaucracy nor the architectural profession was monolithic, however, and Monteyne shows that architecture for civil defense was a contested and often inconsistent project, reflecting specific assumptions about race, gender, class, and power. Despite official rhetoric, civil defense planning in the United States was, ultimately, a failure due to a lack of federal funding, contradictions and ambiguities in fallout shelter design, and growing resistance to its political and cultural implications. Yet the partnership between architecture and civil defense, Monteyne argues, helped guide professional design practice and influenced the perception and use of urban and suburban spaces. One result was a much-maligned bunker architecture, which was not so much a particular style as a philosophy of building and urbanism that shifted focus from nuclear annihilation to urban unrest.

Book Metropolitan Surveys

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  • Author : State University of New York at Albany. Graduate School of Public Affairs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Metropolitan Surveys written by State University of New York at Albany. Graduate School of Public Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Homeless Situation in Michigan

Download or read book The Homeless Situation in Michigan written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Michigan Society of Architects
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Michigan Society of Architects and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including National architect.

Book Rural Sociology Report

Download or read book Rural Sociology Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publication

Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Housing and Planning References

Download or read book Housing and Planning References written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ASPO Newsletter

Download or read book ASPO Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Housing and Planning References

Download or read book Housing and Planning References written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book VISTA Seeks Summer Associates

Download or read book VISTA Seeks Summer Associates written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indexes to HUD Sponsored Comprehensive Planning Reports

Download or read book Indexes to HUD Sponsored Comprehensive Planning Reports written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and Information Division and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Review the Federal Food Stamp Program and Its Impact on Children s Health

Download or read book Review the Federal Food Stamp Program and Its Impact on Children s Health written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Operating Grants for Nonprofit Organizations 2005

Download or read book Operating Grants for Nonprofit Organizations 2005 written by Grants Program and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few needs are more important to a nonprofit organization than funding for operating costs. In this new directory, nonprofits and other organizations seeking grants and funding opportunities to support general operating expenses will find over 1,300 current operating grants—organized by state—with contact and requirement information for each. Three user-friendly indexes (subject, sponsor, and geographic restriction) help grantseekers quickly find the ideal funding opportunity.

Book The Foundation 1000

Download or read book The Foundation 1000 written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 3148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170  c  of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954

Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 c of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: