Book ID: CBB502789446

Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union (2022)

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Christina E. Crawford (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 432
Language: English

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.Thanks to generous funding from Emory University and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other repositories.

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Authors & Contributors
Mespoulet, Martine
Gatejel, Luminita
Daniela Waldburger
Luis Santos y Ganges
Michael Truscello
Elvira Khairullina
Concepts
Socialism
Urban planning
Technology and society
Architecture
Technology and politics
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
Modern
19th century
Places
Soviet Union
Russia
Arctic regions
Eastern Europe
Africa
Magdeburg, Germany
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