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Shelter City: Protecting Citizens Against Air Raids (Landscape and Heritage Research)
Koos Bosma
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Description for Shelter City: Protecting Citizens Against Air Raids (Landscape and Heritage Research)
Paperback. Air Raid Protection represented an era: a mode of thought, a political and administrative concept, and a collection of technical and organisational measurements to protect citizens against attacks from the air. This book offers an interpretation of the Dutch, English and German air raid protection systems, and the construction of a Shelter City, pa Series: Landscape & Heritage Studies. Num Pages: 416 pages, 200 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 172 x 22. Weight in Grams: 952.
Air Raid Protection represented an era: a mode of thought, a political and administrative concept, and a collection of technical and organisational measurements to protect citizens against attacks from the air. This book offers an interpretation of the Dutch, English and German air raid protection systems, and the construction of a Shelter City, parallel to the existing city. The reconstruction of Shelter City, of which some remnants still present themselves as theatrical memories or enjoy a fragmented existence in deeper layers of the earth, could be characterised with a medical metaphor: the historian must scan the urban body in order ... Read more
Air Raid Protection represented an era: a mode of thought, a political and administrative concept, and a collection of technical and organisational measurements to protect citizens against attacks from the air. This book offers an interpretation of the Dutch, English and German air raid protection systems, and the construction of a Shelter City, parallel to the existing city. The reconstruction of Shelter City, of which some remnants still present themselves as theatrical memories or enjoy a fragmented existence in deeper layers of the earth, could be characterised with a medical metaphor: the historian must scan the urban body in order ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Landscape & Heritage Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789089642110
SKU
V9789089642110
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Ref
99-25
About Koos Bosma
Koos Bosma holds the Chair of the History of Architecture and Heritage Studies at the VU University Amsterdam.
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