During the Cold War, cities were seen as likely targets of modern total warfare and systems of civil defence were created to protect cities and their inhabitants. Yet existing civil defence histories have focused little on the specifically urban aspect, and urban historians likewise have paid civil defence little attention. Using Aarhus, Denmark, as a case-study, this article examines civil defence through planning, practices and materiality in a specific urban landscape. By analysing how civil defence was organized, performed and built in Denmark, the article sheds light on the mutual imbrication of urban planning, geography and materiality and local civil defence. I argue that through biopolitics, local civil defence authorities imagineered an idealized survivalist community of city dwellers who would pull together to protect and save their city and that this contributed to taming an incomprehensible, global, nuclear catastrophe into a manageable, localized, urban calamity.

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城市民防：在奥胡斯想象、建造和执行核战争

在冷战期间，城市被视为现代全面战争的可能目标，并建立了民防系统来保护城市及其居民。然而，现有的民防历史很少关注具体的城市方面，城市历史学家同样也很少关注民防。本文以丹麦奥胡斯为案例研究，通过特定城市景观中的规划、实践和重要性来检验民防。通过分析丹麦民防是如何组织、执行和建设的，本文阐明了城市规划、地理和物质性以及地方民防的相互影响。我认为通过生命政治，