Moscow in the Making

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Routledge, Aug 7, 2014 - Architecture - 298 pages

This book, published in 1937, reported on a four week visit to Moscow in 1936 to study the making of Moscow as a showpiece Soviet capital. At its core was the 1935 General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow but the book was a study of planning in the Soviet rather than the Western sense. Thus it covered many aspects of the city’s social and economic life including industry and finance, education and housing production as well as governance and town planning. Much first hand detail is included, based on the visit and the authors’ meetings with Soviet officials and citizens that illustrate various points, usually in praise.

The book made a significant contribution towards the growing arguments in 1930s Britain and other parts of the Anglophone world for a bolder, more comprehensive and more state-led approach to planning. In turn these arguments had an important impact in shaping the policies adopted in the 1940s.

 

Contents

THE MOSCOW CITY SOVIET MOSSOVIET
A GENERAL VIEWOF THE ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE
ISPOLKOM
II
MINOR AUTHORITIES
POWERS ANDDUTIES
PERSONNEL POLICY
LEGAL LIABILITY
IV
INDEX

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Professor Stephen V Ward, Oxford Brookes University, UK