TY - JOUR

T1 - Planning permanent air raid precautions

T2 - architecture, air war and the changing perceptions of British cities in the late 1930s

AU - Page, Adam

PY - 2016/2/1

Y1 - 2016/2/1

N2 - This article considers how the imagination and expectation of future air raids impacted upon the perception of the built environment, and asks how the boundaries between peace and war, and thus military and civilian, began to be dissolved in this context. It examines the interactions between architects, planners and government officials about how the design of cities and buildings might change in an age of air power. By looking at changes and continuities either side of the 1938 Munich crisis, it examines how the civilian space of cities was recast in anticipation of war.

AB - This article considers how the imagination and expectation of future air raids impacted upon the perception of the built environment, and asks how the boundaries between peace and war, and thus military and civilian, began to be dissolved in this context. It examines the interactions between architects, planners and government officials about how the design of cities and buildings might change in an age of air power. By looking at changes and continuities either side of the 1938 Munich crisis, it examines how the civilian space of cities was recast in anticipation of war.

KW - Literature studies

KW - Digital media

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84955359622&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1017/S0963926815000164

DO - 10.1017/S0963926815000164

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 43

SP - 117

EP - 134

JO - Urban History

JF - Urban History

SN - 0963-9268

IS - 1

ER -