{"id":284,"date":"2021-03-16T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2021-03-16T22:06:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:06:48","slug":"new-book-chapter-about-city-planning-during-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"New book chapter about city planning during the Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-18.04.17.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"386\" data-attachment-id=\"285\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?attachment_id=285\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-18.04.17.png?fit=1094%2C891&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1094,891\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-18.04.17\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-18.04.17.png?fit=474%2C386&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-18.04.17.png?resize=474%2C386&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-18.04.17.png?resize=1024%2C834&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-18.04.17.png?resize=300%2C244&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-18.04.17.png?resize=768%2C625&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-18.04.17.png?w=1094&amp;ssl=1 1094w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hesstonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-03-13-at-18.04.17.png?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This research traces the demilitarisation of Raadi airbase in Tartu, Esto- nia, where an early twentieth century aviation facility was transformed, during the Soviet occupation of Estonia, into a Cold War military power centre. Using archival documents and images, the contested urban space that contained this transformation is explored in this chapter through several lenses: the shifting ownership and uses of a key urban site, ad- ministrative restraints that limited urban growth and physical barriers that controlled security. The sheer size of the airfield, and the need to \u2018close\u2019 the section of the city in which it was situated, has strongly shaped urban growth throughout the twentieth century. Cultural space and mil- itary demands have competed throughout history to dominate this im- portant urban site, formerly a prestigious manor house, occupied by the \u2018secret\u2019 airfield, where a new national museum was recently dedicated on a former runway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hess, Daniel Baldwin&nbsp;and Taavi Pae. 2020. Competing militarisation and urban development during the Cold War: how a large Soviet air base came to dominate Tartu, Estonia in&nbsp;<em>Cold War Cities: Politics, Culture and Atomic Urbanism, 1945\u201065<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;(Richard Brook, Martin Dodge, and Jonathan Hogg, eds.) pp. 148-166. London, UK: Routledge.&nbsp;ISBN 9781138573611<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Cold-War-Cities-Politics-Culture-and-Atomic-Urbanism-19451965\/Brook-Dodge-Hogg\/p\/book\/9781138573611\">Click here to view the book <em>Cold War Cities<\/em> on the Routledge webpage.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This research traces the demilitarisation of Raadi airbase in Tartu, Esto- nia, where an early twentieth century aviation facility was transformed, during the Soviet occupation of Estonia, into a Cold War military power centre. Using archival documents and images, the contested urban space that contained this transformation is explored in this chapter through several lenses: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=284\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New book chapter about city planning during the Cold War<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71bvo-4A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":318,"url":"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=318","url_meta":{"origin":284,"position":0},"title":"New book chapter about city planning during state socialism","author":"dbhess","date":"October 19, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The influence of nuclear deterrence during the Cold War on the growth and decline of the peripheral town of Valga\/Valka Estonia\u2019s location in the geopolitically turbulent frontier area between the Russian and Western worlds has always affected the spatial development of Estonian cities and regions. 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