European University Institute Library

The Blitz and its legacy, wartime destruction to post-war reconstruction, edited by Mark Clapson, University of Westminster, UK, Peter J. Larkham, Birmingham City University, UK

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Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The Blitz and its legacy

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edited by Mark Clapson, University of Westminster, UK, Peter J. Larkham, Birmingham City University, UK

wartime destruction to post-war reconstruction

The Blitz, its experiences, its consequences / Mark Clapson and Peter J. Larkham -- La ville éventrée : or, how bombing turned the city inside out / Lindsey Dodd -- Holiday camps, castles and stately homes : the residential option for the evacuation of disabled children during World War II / Sue Wheatcroft -- A Service Forged in the Flames : The Blitz, Wartime Fire-fighting and the National Fire Service / Shane Ewen -- Between destruction and reconstruction : London's Debris Clearance and Repair Organisation, 1939-1945 / Robin Woolven -- The people's peace : the myth of wartime unity and public consent for town planning / Susanne Cowan -- Reconstruction constraints : political and economic realities / Catherine Flinn -- Destruction and dispersal : the Blitz and the "break up" of working-class London / Mark Clapson -- Tradition and modernity : architecture in Japan after Hiroshima / Neil Jackson -- Reconstruction civic authority in postwar Germany / Jeff Diefendorf -- Bold planning, mixed experiences : the diverse fortunes of post-war Birmingham / David Adams, Peter J. Larkham -- Planning the reconstruction of war-damaged Plymouth, 1941-1961 : devising and defending a modernization agenda / Stephen Essex, Mark Brayshay -- Destruction, revival and reconstruction across Alsace and Lorraine, 1939-1960 / Hugh Clout -- Problems of blitz reconstruction in Japan : the case of Sendai / Junichi Hasagawa