The Dispersal of Cities as a Defense Measure

Augur, Tracy B.

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“…What Augur (1948) was proposing instead of a large urban mass was a roughly circular cluster containing twenty small units two miles across with an area of 3 square miles each. The entire cluster would contain 886 square miles.…”

Section: ᭤ the Response Of The City Planning Profession: Defensive Dispersalmentioning

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Sprawl as Strategy

udley¹

2001

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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The extent to which the nuclear arms race may have played a role in the development of postwar urban form in the United States is explored through an examination of planning literature and government documents from the 1940s and 1950s. The project to disperse the urban form for civil defense reasons is followed from its emergence in the literature to the adoption of these principles by both the American Institute of Planners and the U.S. federal government. The ramifications of this movement, and the role it played in the social history of the cold war, are discussed.

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Section: ᭤ the Response Of The City Planning Profession: Defensive Dispersalmentioning

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Sprawl as Strategy

udley¹

2001

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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Urban Geography

Schneider-Sliwa¹

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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Urban development processes are greatly affected by structural transformation of societies. Over the past decade, societies have witnessed changes that were unprecedented in recent history: the collapse of political and economic systems, new integration policies, globalization of the economy and the decline of the nation-state, mass migration, governmental retrenchment, and social restructuring. Structural changes in societies manifest themselves distinctly in urban areas and every generation needs to engage in the discourse on a country's built politics, the sustainability of urban form and design, and the ecological footprint of major cities and suburban areas. Urban geography deals with the analysis of the complex dimensions of urban social, economic, cultural, and political processes, patterns, and structures and urban planning processes to build up or retain local comparative advantages, while retaining cities as livable urban places and securing their sound social and environmental development for future generations. This article describes the conceptual and methodological approaches and the long-term prospects of urban geography.

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Urban Planning and Defense Planning, Past and Future

Light¹

2004

Journal of the American Planning Association

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The Dispersal of Cities as a Defense Measure

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