Architectures of Survival : Air War and Urbanism in Britain, 1935-52 留存建筑 英国空战与城市规划

生存建筑是历史的原创和创新工作，研究现代英国空战与都市主义之间的关系。 它询问空中力量的发展和城市的目标如何影响城市空间的感知和从两次世界大战之间到冷战的城市未来的愿景，突出了战争的重要性和现代城市历史中的战争预期。 空中力量对城市和平民构成了永久性的威胁，本书考虑了建筑师，规划者和政府官员如何将轰炸重新定义为一个持续的城市问题，而不是一个特定的冲突。 它借鉴了地方和国家政府的档案资料，建筑和城市规划期刊和文化文本，展示了城市如何重新定位为目标，防御和规划发展的计划变得越来越纠结。
Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain. It asks how the development of airpower and the targeting of cities influenced perceptions of urban spaces and visions of urban futures from the interwar period into the Cold War, highlighting the importance of war and the anticipation of war in modern urban history. Airpower created a permanent threat to cities and civilians, and this book considers how architects, planners and government officials reframed bombing as an ongoing urban problem, rather than one contingent to a particular conflict. It draws on archival material from local and national government, architectural and town planning journals and cultural texts, to demonstrate how cities were recast as targets, and planning for defence and planning for development became increasingly entangled.