Week 18 Socialist Cities by Veda Chou https://padlet.com/nanga1141/geography Sharing your ideas with others! en-us 2020-02-27 14:52:30 UTC 2020-02-27 14:58:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f601.png Questions: nanga1141 https://padlet.com/nanga1141/geography/wish/451397092 1.    What are some of the characteristics that modernist and socialist urbanism have in common? Did socialist urbanism offer any different solutions to high modernism in the West?
2.    Why was housing a central concern of socialist urbanism?
3.    Compile a list of similarities and differences between modernist housing estates in capitalist countries and socialist countries. How would everyday life differ in a ‘socialist’ and ‘capitalist’ housing estate? What different approaches do they show to solving urban problems?
4.    Outline the main features of the socialist microdistrict (microrayon), with a focus on how it relates to other modernist urban plans that you have encountered in the course, e.g. Howard’s Garden City, Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse.
5.    How far was socialist urbanism concerned with expressing political and ideological visions, and how far was it concerned with solving problems of everyday urban life?
6.    Discuss some of the problems and failures associated with the socialist implementation of urban plans.
7.    Discuss how the image you have brought in can be interpreted as reflecting both socialist and modernist principles.
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  • Bater, J. 1984. The Soviet city: continuity and change in privilege and place. In J. Agnew, J. Mercer, D. Sopher. The City in Cultural Context London: Allen & Unwin. [on Minerva]. 
  • Monclús, J. and Díez Medina, C., 2016. Modernist housing estates in European cities of the Western and Eastern Blocs. Planning Perspectives, 31(4), pp.533-562. 
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