New Socialist Cities: Foreign Architects in the USSR 1920-1940

J.E. Bosma

doi:10.1080/02665433.2013.825994

New Socialist Cities: Foreign Architects in the USSR 1920-1940

J.E. Bosma

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The creation of a Communist society between 1917 and 1939 implied the concomitant establishment of a non-capitalist economy and a non-bourgeois culture and lifestyle. In terms of the rhetoric used at the time, the Communist utopia was based on confidence in the beneficial impact of science, technology, planning and management. This necessarily presupposed alternative (new) town planning concepts, a reformed building industry, a new housing typology, and new management styles. Solutions for this mission were expected to come from foreign (mostly German) engineers, architects, and town planners who were invited to the USSR to realize the Communist utopia during the first Five-Year Plan (1928-1933). © 2013 Taylor & Francis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-28
Number of pages	28
Journal	Planning Perspectives
Volume	2013
Issue number	4
Early online date	23 Sept 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2013.825994
Publication status	Published - 2013

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