{"product_id":"nuclear-suburbs","title":"Nuclear Suburbs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the early Cold War, research facilities became ubiquitous features of suburbs across the United States. Pittsburgh’s eastern and southern suburbs hosted a constellation of such facilities that became the world’s leading center for the development of nuclear reactors for naval vessels and power plants. The segregated communities that surrounded these laboratories housed one of the largest concentrations of nuclear engineers and scientists on earth. In \u003ci\u003eNuclear Suburbs\u003c\/i\u003e, Patrick Vitale uncovers how the suburbs shaped the everyday lives of these technology workers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing oral histories, Vitale follows nuclear engineers and scientists throughout and beyond the Pittsburgh region to understand how the politics of technoscience and the Cold War were embedded in daily life. At the same time that research facilities moved to Pittsburgh’s suburbs, a coalition of business and political elites began an aggressive effort, called the Pittsburgh Renaissance, to renew the region. For Pittsburgh’s elite, laboratories and researchers became important symbols of the new Pittsburgh and its postindustrial economy. \u003ci\u003eNuclear Suburbs\u003c\/i\u003e exposes how this coalition enrolled technology workers as allies in their remaking of the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering lessons for the present day, \u003ci\u003eNuclear Suburbs\u003c\/i\u003e shows how race, class, gender, and the production of urban and suburban space are fundamental to technoscientific networks, and explains how the “renewal” of industrial regions into centers of the tech economy is rooted in violence and injustice. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54220721783128,"sku":"9781517900298","price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/nuclear-suburbs","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}