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• Student Works: Suburban Defense

  [Tom Vigar's (very) defensible suburban enclaves complete with bunkers and missile silos. All images by Tom Vigar.]

  Caught somewhere between No-Stop City and an Everyday Virilio-ism, Tom Vigar's Master of Architecture thesis "Subtopian Dreams" at Sheffield University posits a shared economy (and landscape) of suburbia and military sites. Arguing the inevitable links and interdependence of one [...]

  Posted on Jan 14.09 to Infrastructures, Networks, military, student work, suburbs   

• Terror Town®, Disaster City®, and now MoD City

  [An aerial of what is called Disaster City, near College Station, TX]

  A playground for military and urban search-and-rescue teams called Disaster City® is located in College Station, Texas. At 52 acres, the mock community contains full-scale, collapsible structures designed to simulate various levels of disaster and wreckage which can be customized for specific training needs.
  It [...]

  Posted on Apr 29.08 to Infrastructures, military