Особенности репрезентации проблем градостроительства в CCCР и Великобритании. 1950–1970-е гг.
Some Features of the Representation of the Problems of Urban Development in the USSR and the United Kingdom, 1950–1970

Summary/Abstract: The problem of improving the housing stock after the Second World War, both in the USSR and the UK has been associated with ensuring the stability of the political system. Despite of similar aims these countries used different socio-economic strategy and it had an impact on the characteristics of conceptual representation of urban issues in periodicals. A number of problematic articles in the journal “Architecture of the USSR” and major architectural journals in the UK 1950–70-s allow us to compare the features of the formation of urban space and confirm the thesis about the relationship of the architectural community practices in countries with different political and socio-economic systems. Despite of the differences in the ideology of architectural publications, western and soviet journals had similar goals — publications aimed to help professionals to understand on what basis they should make certain decisions, to create the general vector of development of architecture in different regions. In both countries, typical construction became the solution of the housing problem. In the process of overcoming, the housing crisis planners faced with challenges such as the registration of industrial zones, creating original solutions of planning residential areas and the formation of a comfortable urban space in the conditions of industrialization of construction. Publications in specialized journals reflected all these topics.

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