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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552757403321

Autore

Crawford Christina E.

Titolo

Spatial Revolution : Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union / / Christina E. Crawford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2022

Cornell University Press, , 2022

Ithaca [New York]

ISBN

1-5017-5921-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

720.947084

Soggetti

Spatial behavior - Soviet Union

Space (Architecture) - Soviet Union

Communism and architecture - Soviet Union

Architecture - Soviet Union - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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 laboratories to test socialist spatial models"--