Soviet New Towns
Author | : Jack A. Underhill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jack A. Underhill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
Author | : U.S./U.S.S.R. New Towns Working Group |
Publisher | : Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of International Affairs |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arseniy Kotov |
Publisher | : Fuel |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781916218413 |
The Soviet dream of modernist architecture for all, portrayed on the brink of its erasure In recent years Russian cities have visibly changed. The architectural heritage of the Soviet period has not been fully acknowledged. As a result many unique modernist buildings have been destroyed or changed beyond recognition. Russian photographer Arseniy Kotov intends to document these buildings and their surroundings before they are lost forever. He likes to take pictures in winter, during the "blue hour," which occurs immediately after sunset or just before sunrise. At this time, the warm yellow colors inside apartment-block windows contrast with the twilight gloom outside. To Kotov, this atmosphere reflects the Soviet period of his imagination. His impression of this time is unashamedly idealistic: he envisages a great civilization, built on a fair society, which hopes to explore nature and conquer space. From the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the desert steppes of Kazakhstan to the grim monolithic high-rise dormitory blocks of inner-city Volgograd, Kotov captures the essence of the post-Soviet world. "The USSR no longer exists and in these photographs we can see what remains--the most outstanding buildings and constructions, where Soviet people lived and how Soviet cities once looked: no decoration, no bright colors and no luxury, only bare concrete and powerful forms." This superbly designed volume is the latest in Fuel's revelatory and inspiring series on Soviet-era architecture.
Author | : Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Soviet Union |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Steven A. Grant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Construction industry |
ISBN | : |
Recent reforms in the Soviet housing construction process--Soviet building design and construction--Urban forms and infrastructure in the Soviet Union--U.S.S.R. practices in heat and power supply--Micro aspects of housing demand in Soviet cities--Building materials and components--Housing in Central Asia: the Uzbeck example--Construction in seismic areas--Soviet construction under difficult climatic conditions--The political economy of Soviet new towns--Reflections on the planning of old and new cities in the U.S.S.R.
Author | : Rosemary Wakeman |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2016-04 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 022634603X |
Rosemary Wakeman provides a sweeping history of "new towns"--those created by fiat rather than out of geographic or economic logic and often intended to break with the tendencies of past development. Heralded throughout the twentieth century as solutions to congestion, environmental threats, architectural malaise, and cultural anomie, today they are often seen as sad, pernicious, or merely suburban. Wakeman shows that hundreds of such towns sprang from templates and designs not only in North America and across Europe but around the world, revealing how different cultures dreamed of (re)organizing themselves. Wakeman also illuminates the missteps and unanticipated results of the initial optimistic choices and impulses.
Author | : James H. Bater |
Publisher | : Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : I. Golossov |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Institute of Town Planning USSR |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2004-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781410213105 |
The second volume is dedicated to a detailed analysis of questions connected with the development of separate parts or regions of a town. It deals with such questions as planning and building-up of industrial and residential schemes as the organization of cultural and welfare facilities for a town as a whole and for its individual regions. Great attention is paid to the question of planting. The section "Planning and Development of Town Industrial Regions" deals with problems concerning the planning organization of such regions. This section includes requirements concerning the planning and the development of industrial estates in new as well as in existing towns. The section "Planning and Development of Residential Areas" considers questions concerning the progress of housing at different stages of our country's development. The section "Network of Cultural and Welfare Facilities" generalizes the experience obtained in the location of cultural and welfare establishments, gives an account of objective natural phenomena acting in the field of population servicing, determines the basic principles for locating service establishments both in the town itself and in the suburban zone, and outlines the way for the development of service facilities in the first period of building as well as in long-term planning. The section "System of Planting" deals with the part played by plants and greenery in the improvement of the town microclimate and of the sanitary conditions.