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Author Vanderbilt, Tom.

Title Survival City : adventures among the ruins of atomic America / Tom Vanderbilt.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Princeton Architectural Press, [2002]
©2002

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  F595.3 .V36 2002    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 228 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Looking for Dr. Strangelove : the Cold War as archaeology -- Dead city : the metropolis targeted -- Survival City : this is only a test -- The domestication of doomsday : new buildings for the perilous atomic age -- The underground city: the architecture of disappearance -- Twentieth-century castles : missile silos in the heartland -- The secret landscape : some Cold War traces -- Postscript: September 11, 2001.
Subject West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
West (U.S.) -- History, Local.
Vanderbilt, Tom -- Travel -- West (U.S.)
Vanderbilt, Tom.
Travel.
West (U.S.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Cold War -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.)
Cold War (1945-1989)
Social aspects.
Nuclear weapons -- West (U.S.) -- Testing -- History -- 20th century.
Nuclear weapons.
Testing.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Landscapes -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.)
Landscapes -- Social aspects.
Landscapes.
Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States.
United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1945-
Subject National characteristics, American.
National characteristics, American.
ISBN 1568983050 alkaline paper