States of Emergency: Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War

States of Emergency: Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War
ISBN-10
9462703086
ISBN-13
9789462703087
Series
States of Emergency
Category
Architecture
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2022-04-28
Publisher
Leuven University Press
Authors
Erin Eckhold Sassin, Sophie Hochhäusl

Description

What World War I meant for architecture and urbanism writ large More than one hundred years after the conclusion of the First World War, the edited collection States of Emergency. Architecture, Urbanism, and the First World War reassesses what that cataclysmic global conflict meant for architecture and urbanism from a human, social, economic, and cultural perspective. Chapters probe how underdevelopment and economic collapse manifested spatially, how military technologies were repurposed by civilians, and how cultures of education, care, and memory emerged from battle. The collection places an emphasis on the various states of emergency as experienced by combatants and civilians across five continents—from refugee camps to military installations, villages to capital cities—thus uncovering the role architecture played in mitigating and exacerbating the everyday tragedy of war.

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