PLAN349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Finland Station, Counterpoint, Natural Resource
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Week6: cities of russia; housing and community development. Three distininct eras: tsarist, soviet (communist), post-soviet. Two reconstruction phases in 20th c: 1) after creation of su 1917, 2) when su collapsed in 91. Since 1991, the advent of commercial retailers, private transportation, and new housing construction is changing russian urban landscape. Russian cities were originally constructed around modernist urban principles (for pedestrians and mass transit) and were neither built nor developed to accommodate the now increasing number of commercial and private vehicles. No longer do central planners choose a site for a new factory and then build a city around it, as was the case in the soviet union. The soviet planning system resulted in the construction of cities in unexpected, potentially hazardous, and ultimately unsustainable sites, such as the remote reaches of. Cities were often sited near natural resources, regardless of the location of those resources.
