The Resilient City in World War II Urban Environmental Histories /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Laakkonen, Simo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), McNeill, J. R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Tucker, Richard P. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Vuorisalo, Timo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
• Subjects: World War, 1939-1945.; Environment.; Cities and towns-History.; World history.; Military history.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Environment Studies.; Urban History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; History of Military.

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 t...

Table of Contents:

• 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?