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 (2022)

Wartime Nightscapes: Zeppelin Night Bombings as Mass Spectacles, 1914–1929

David Caralt; Erin Eckhold Sassin; Sophie Hochhäusl

Keywords: war, spectacle, night, bombing, zeppelin

Abstract

In February 1909, the science magazine Popular Mechanics published the image of an airship on its cover. The airship was flying over a city and the caption for the image read: “First (Tactical) Destruction of a Great City.” The accompanying article explained: “To demonstrate how easily a fortified city could be destroyed by bombs dropped from airships at night, Roy Knabenshue sailed over Los Angeles on the night of December 18 [1908], and dropped confetti bombs onto the heads of the thousands of people” for an hour and a half.¹ This illustration accurately foreshadowed one of the most surprising and...

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Editorial: Leuven University Press
Fecha de publicación: 2022
Página de inicio: 155
Página final: 175
URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1vz0cd5.9
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1vz0cd5.9
Notas: 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. Contributors: Aubrey Knox (The Graduate Center of The City University of New York), Deborah Ascher Barnstone (University of Technology Sydney), Emma Thomas (Boston University), Da Hyung Jeong (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), Julie Willis (The University of Melbourne), Katti Williams (The University of Melbourne), David Caralt (Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción, Chile), Etien Santiago (Indiana University Bloomington), Theodossis Issaias (Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh), Min Kyung Lee (Bryn Mawr College), Massimiliano Savorra (Università degli studi di Pavia), Antje Senarclens de Grancy (Graz University of Technology) This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).