Architecture in uniform:designing and building for the Second World War
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Canadian Centre for Architecture Hazan Distributed by Yale University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Montreal Paris New Haven [Conn.] |
Publication Dates: | c2011. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | 447 p.: ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
9782754105309 (cloth : alk. paper) 2754105301 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780920785928 0920785921 |
Index Number: | TU |
CLC: | TU-091.15 |
Call Number: | TU-091.15/C678 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Overture: the test of war -- Architects and cities go off to war -- Total mobilisation, from the factory to the kitchen -- Producing production and workers' housing -- The menace from the air -- Camouflage, or The temptation of the invisible -- Architects and bombs, from bunkers to napalm -- Mobility and prefabrication -- Macro and micro or the issue of scale -- On the information front -- Alternative futures: occupation and reconstruction -- Recycling, recalling, forgetting. |