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Spatial revolution : architecture and planning in the early Soviet Union /

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"This book explores the foundations of early Soviet architecture and planning in a narrative arc across vast geography. The book binds together three industrial-residential projects in Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv, built during the first fifteen years of the Soviet Union, that became living...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crawford, Christina E. (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Architecture > Soviet Union > History.
Communism and architecture > Soviet Union.
Space (Architecture) > Soviet Union.
Spatial behavior > Soviet Union.
Architecture > URSS > Histoire.
Communisme et architecture > URSS.
Espace (Architecture) > URSS.
HISTORY > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Soviet Union
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
early Soviet architecture and urbanism, transnational architectural exchange, architecture of the Soviet first Five-Year Plan, socialist space, Baku, Magnitogorsk, Kharkiv.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Socialism means housing
  • From garden cites to urban superblocks
  • A plan for the proletariat
  • The great debate
  • Competition and visions
  • Frankfurt on the steppe
  • From tractors to territory
  • Socialist urbanization through standardization.