Architecture in uniform:designing and building for the Second World War

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cohen Jean-Louis
Published: Canadian Centre for Architecture Hazan Distributed by Yale University Press,
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.