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Author Crawford, Christina E., author.

Title Spatial revolution : architecture and planning in the early Soviet Union / Christina E. Crawford
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (424 pages) : 70 black and white halftones, 21 black and white line drawings, 40 maps, 2 charts, 28 color plates
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
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Spatial Revolution is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning to create a narrative arc across a vast geography. The narrative binds together three critical industrial-residential projects in Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv, built during the first fifteen years of the Soviet project and followed attentively worldwide after the collapse of capitalist markets in 1929. Among the revelations provided by Christina E. Crawford is the degree to which outside experts participated in the construction of the Soviet industrial complex, while facing difficult topographies, near-impossible deadlines, and inchoate theories of socialist space-making. Crawford describes how early Soviet architecture and planning activities were kinetic and negotiated and how questions about the proper distribution of people and industry under socialism were posed and refined through the construction of brick and mortar, steel and concrete projects, living laboratories that tested alternative spatial models. As a result, Spatial Revolution answers important questions of how the first Soviet industrialization drive was a catalyst for construction of thousands of new enterprises on remote sites across the Eurasian continent, an effort that spread to far-flung sites in other socialist states-and capitalist welfare states-for decades to follow
Analysis early Soviet architecture and urbanism, transnational architectural exchange, architecture of the Soviet first Five-Year Plan, socialist space, Baku, Magnitogorsk, Kharkiv
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (books.openmonographs.org, viewed September 9, 2022)
Subject Architecture -- Soviet Union -- History
Communism and architecture -- Soviet Union
Space (Architecture) -- Soviet Union
Spatial behavior -- Soviet Union
HISTORY -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Spatial behavior
Space (Architecture)
Communism and architecture
Architecture
Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cornell University Press, publisher.
LC no. 2020052688
ISBN 9781501759208
1501759205
9781501759215
1501759213