The Soviet City
Author | : James H. Bater |
Publisher | : Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James H. Bater |
Publisher | : Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
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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 | : Joseph Garelik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry W. Morton |
Publisher | : M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780873322485 |
This anthology of short stories reflects the writers' shared core experience of Korea's trajectory from an inward-looking feudal state, through Japanese colony and battle-ground for the Korean War, to a modernizing society. Three stories have been added to the original edition.
Author | : Martin Davis |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2021-09-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030840174 |
The collapse of the Soviet Union has seen the emergence of its unprecedentedly comprehensive global secret military mapping project and the commercial availability of a vast number of detailed topographic maps and city plans at several scales. This thesis provides an in-depth examination of the series of over 2,000 large-scale city plans produced in secret by the Military Topographic Directorate (Военное топографическое управление) of the General Staff between the end of the Second World War and the collapse of the USSR in 1991. After positioning the series in its historical context, the nature and content of the plans are examined in detail. A poststructuralist perspective introduces possibilities to utilise and apply the maps in new contexts, which this thesis facilitates by providing a systematic, empirical analysis of the Soviet map symbology at 1:10,000 and 1:25,000, using new translations of production manuals and a sample of the city plans. A comparative analysis with the current OpenStreetMap symbology indicates scope for Soviet mapping to be used as a valuable supplementary topographic resource in a variety of existing and future global mapping initiatives, including humanitarian crisis mapping. This leads to a conclusion that the relevance and value of Soviet military maps endure in modern applications, both as a source of data and as a means of overcoming contemporary cartographic challenges relating to symbology, design and the handling of large datasets.
Author | : Chauncy Dennison Harris |
Publisher | : Chicago : Published for Association of American Geographers by Rand McNally |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James H. Bater |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maurice Frank Parkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael F. Hamm |
Publisher | : Lexington : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Michael Stronski |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2010-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822973898 |
Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reimagining of urban centers in Central Asia. Based on extensive research in Russian and Uzbek archives, Stronski shows us how Soviet officials, planners, and architects strived to integrate local ethnic traditions and socialist ideology into a newly constructed urban space and propaganda showcase. The Soviets planned to transform Tashkent from a "feudal city" of the tsarist era into a "flourishing garden," replete with fountains, a lakeside resort, modern roadways, schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, and of course, factories. The city was intended to be a shining example to the world of the successful assimilation of a distinctly non-Russian city and its citizens through the catalyst of socialism. As Stronski reveals, the physical building of this Soviet city was not an end in itself, but rather a means to change the people and their society. Stronski analyzes how the local population of Tashkent reacted to, resisted, and eventually acquiesced to the city's socialist transformation. He records their experiences of the Great Terror, World War II, Stalin's death, and the developments of the Krushchev and Brezhnev eras up until the earthquake of 1966, which leveled large parts of the city. Stronski finds that the Soviets established a legitimacy that transformed Tashkent and its people into one of the more stalwart supporters of the regime through years of political and cultural changes and finally during the upheavals of glasnost.