Spatial revolution : architecture and planning in the early Soviet Union / Christina E. Crawford.

Main entry:

Crawford, Christina E., author.

Title & Author:

Spatial revolution : architecture and planning in the early Soviet Union / Christina E. Crawford.

Publication:

Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
©2022

Description:

xv, 385 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

ISBN:

9781501759192 hardcover
1501759191 hardcover
electronic book
9781501759208
9781501759215

Subject:

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.
ARCHITECTURE / General.
Architecture.
Communism and architecture.
Space (Architecture)
Spatial behavior.
Soviet Union.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315501
Call No.: 315501
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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