Spatial Revolution Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union

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 th...

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Main Author: Crawford, Christina E. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2022
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