Beyond Survival: Integrating Subterranean Bunker Infrastructure into Urban Planning for Reclaiming Civic Resilience
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https://doi.org/10.63468/sshrr.073Keywords:
Participatory Design, Geotechnical Resilience, Survivalist Urbanism, Embedded Intelligence, Subterranean Shelters, Subterranean Urbanism, Urban resilience. Post Covid New Normal.Abstract
At a time of geopolitical uncertainty, pandemics, and climate danger, underground bunkers have resurfaced not as Cold War artifacts but as vital civic infrastructure. This paper draws together lessons from the Vita-Subterra project in Pakistan, cultural theory in "Becoming Atomic," and technological vision in "Hidden Metropolis" to rethink the urban bunker. It advocates for the integration of self-reliant, inclusive, and peripherally linked bunkers within city master plans. Bunkers need to change from places of upper-class safe haven to an infrastructural safe and inclusive place accessible for all social classes, re-defining urban spaces.
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