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Cold War Cities: Spatial Planning, Social And Political Processes, And Cultural Practices In The Age Of Atomic Urbanism, 1945-1965 / Richard Brook, Martin Dodge And Jonathan Hogg -- Part I. Planning The Cold War City -- Properties Of Science: How Industrial Research And The Suburbs Reshaped Each Other In Cold-war Pittsburgh / Patrick Vitale -- The City Of Bristol: Ground Zero In The Making / Bob Clarke -- Towards A Prosperous Future Through Cold War Planning: Stalinist Urban Design In The Industrial Towns Of Sillamäe And Kohtla-järve, Estonia / Siim Sultson -- Nuclear Anxiety In Postwar Japan's City Of The Future / Sebastian Schmidt -- Visual Essay: Urbanism Of Fear: A Tale Of Two Chinese Cold War Cities / Tong Lam -- Part Ii. Building The Cold War City. The Warsaw Metro And The Warsaw Pact: From Deep Cover To Cut-and-cover / Alex Lawrey -- Competing Militarisation And Urban Development During The Cold War: How A Soviet Air Base Came To Dominate Tartu, Estonia / Daniel Baldwin Hess And Taavi Pae -- In-between The East And The West: Architecture And Urban Planning In 'non-aligned' Skopje / Jasna Mariotti -- Atomic Urbanism Under Greenland's Ice Cap: Camp Century And Cold War Architectural Imagination / Kristian H. Nielsen -- Visual Essay: Welfare Or Warfare? Civil Defence In Danish Urban Welfare Architecture / Rosanna Farbøl -- Part Iii. Culture And Politics In The Cold War City. Urban Space, Public Protest, And Nuclear Weapons In Early Cold War Sydney / Kyle Harvey -- In The Middle Of The Atomic Arena: Visible And Invisible Nato Sites In Verona During The Fifties / Michela Morgante -- Conceiving The Atomic Bomb Threat Between West And East: Mobilisation, Representation And Perception Against The A-bomb In 1950s Red Bologna / Eloisa Betti -- Making A 'free World' City: Urban Space And Social Order In Cold War Bangkok / Matthew Phillips -- Visual Essay: Cold War Telecommunication And Urban Vulnerability: Underground Exchange And Microwave Tower In Manchester / Martin Dodge And Richard Brook. Edited By Richard Brook, Martin Dodge And Jonathan Hogg Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. London Available Via World Wide Web. Richard Brook Is An Architect And Reader At Manchester School Of Architecture, Uk. He Is Author Of Manchester Modern (2017). He Has Talked, Written, Curated And Published Extensively On Post-war British Architecture. He Researches The Policies Of Planning And Regulation And Their Impact On Urban Form. Martin Dodge Is A Senior Lecturer In Human Geography At The University Of Manchester, Uk. His Major Research Interests Are Currently Visual Culture And The Politics Of Mapping, And Infrastructural Geographies Read Through Historical And Archival Perspectives. Jonathan Hogg Is A Senior Lecturer In History At The University Of Liverpool, Uk. He Has Conducted Extensive Research On The Cultural And Social History Of The British Nuclear State. His Recent Publications Offer A New Interpretation Of Nuclear Culture And The Cold War By Tracing The Tensions Between 'official' And 'unofficial' Nuclear Narratives.