The Blitz and its legacy : wartime destruction to post-war reconstruction /

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Other Authors: Clapson, Mark, Larkham, P. J (Peter J.), 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2016
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Blitz, its experiences, its consequences / Mark Clapson and Peter J. Larkham
  • 2. La ville éventrée : or, how bombing turned the city inside out / Lindsey Dodd
  • 3. Holiday camps, castles and stately homes : the residential option for the evacuation of disabled children during World War II / Sue Wheatcroft
  • 4. A service forged in the flames : the Blitz, wartime fire-fighting and the National Fire Service / Shane Ewen
  • 5. Between destruction and reconstruction : London's debris clearance and repair organisation, 1939-1945 / Robin Woolven
  • 6. The people's peace : the myth of wartime unity and public consent for town planning / Susanne Cowan
  • 7. Reconstruction constraints : political and economic realities / Catherine Flinn
  • 8. Destruction and dispersal : the Blitz and the 'break-up' of working-class London / Mark Clapson
  • 9. Tradition and modernity : architecture in Japan after Hiroshima / Neil Jackson
  • 10. Reconstruction civic authority in post-war Germany / Jeff M. Diefendorf
  • 11. Bold planning, mixed experiences : the diverse fortunes of post-war Birmingham / David Adams and Peter J. Larkham
  • 12. Planning the reconstruction of war-damaged Plymouth, 1941-1961 : devising and defending a modernisation agenda / Stephen Essex and Mark Brayshay
  • 13. Destruction, revival and reconstruction across Alsace and Lorraine, 1939-1960 / Hugh Clout
  • 14. Problems of blitz reconstruction in Japan : the case of Sendai / Junichi Hasagawa