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Beyond Survival: Integrating Subterranean Bunker Infrastructure into Urban Planning for Reclaiming Civic Resilience

Year: 2025

Type: article

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.

Source: Social Sciences & Humanity Research Review

DOI: 10.63468/sshrr.073

Authors: Muhammad Taimur Sarwar, Muhammad Zeeshan Zaheer, Bilal Haider

Institution: COMSATS University Islamabad

Language: English

Topic: Underground infrastructure and sustainability

Subfield: Building and Construction

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4413305489

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