The Resilient City in World War II

Urban Environmental Histories

Simo Laakkonen, J. R. McNeill, Richard P. Tucker, Timo Vuorisalo (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XX, 317 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-17438-5 (ISBN)

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The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. Broad swaths of cityscapes were destroyed by the bombing of targets such as transport hubs, electrical grids, and industrial districts, and across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, urban environments were transformed by the massive mobilization of human and natural resources to support the conflict. But at the same time, the war saw remarkable resilience among the human and non-human residents of cities. Foregrounding the concept of urban resilience, this collection uncovers the creative survival strategies that city-dwellers of all kinds turned to in the midst of environmental devastation. As the first major study at the intersection of environmental, urban, and military history, The Resilient City in World War II lays the groundwork for an improved understanding of rapid change in urban environments, and how societies may adapt.

Simo Laakkonen is Senior Lecturer of Landscape Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. J. R. McNeill is Professor of History at Georgetown University, USA. Richard P. Tucker is Adjunct Professor of Environmental History at the University of Michigan, USA. Timo Vuorisalo is Senior Lecturer of Environmental Science at the University of Turku, Finland.

I. Introduction.- 1. Environmental History, the Second World War, and Urban Resilience.- II. Urban Environment.- 2. Critical Networks.- 3. Fortress City: The Militarized Landscape of Seattle.- 4. War and Urban-Industrial Air Pollution in the UK and US.- 5. Imagined Resilience.- III. Urban Nature.- 6. Guerrilla Gardening? Urban Agriculture and the Environment.- 7. Gaining Strength from Nature.- 8. Resilience behind Bars.- 9. Where Have all the Pigeons Gone.- IV. Urban Society.- 10. Partial Resilience in Nationalist China's Wartime Capital.- 11. Japanese-Occupied Hanoi.- 12. The Esteros and Manila's Postwar Remaking.- 13. Apocalyptic Urban Future.- V. Conclusions.- 14. Epilogue: What Makes a City Resilient?

Erscheinungsdatum	09.06.2019
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
Zusatzinfo	XX, 317 p. 31 illus., 12 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
Schlagworte	Air Pollution • animals in World War II • atomic bomb in science fiction • climate change • Destruction • Eco-horror • ecosystem • Europe, America, Asia, Africa • industrial warfare • military history • Military-Industrial Complex • Peace • postwar recovery • Second World War • Shock cities • socio-environmental stress • Spanish Civil War • Towns • Twentieth century • urban planning • wartime conservation • wartime urban argiculture • water supply
ISBN-10	3-030-17438-7 / 3030174387
ISBN-13	978-3-030-17438-5 / 9783030174385
Zustand	Neuware