Academy of Municipal Engineering in the 1930s: The Failed Scientific Center of Urban Planning

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200923.063How to use a DOI?

Keywords

architecture and urban planning of the Soviet period, urban planning of socialist cities, design of residential areas, usage of cultural heritage, urban economy

Abstract

The article focuses on the creation of the Academy of Municipal Engineering, its structural organization and activities in the 1930s - early 1940s in the field of urban planning of socialist cities. It is shown that during this period the Academy was considered to be of great importance not only as the leading center of scientific urban planning but also as the coordinator of all research work in the country in the field of urban planning, urban sanitation and hygiene as well as landscaping of cities. The article analyzes to what extent the real structure of the Academy’s activity and its scientific results corresponded with these expectations. The work of the Academy in the field of urban planning of socialist cities is revealed in the context of the general development of urban planning in the country during this period. It is shown that while the urban planning segregated from the general field of urban development problems and was imbued with specific Soviet, ideologically loaded features, the Academy’s activity has been increasingly focusing on technical issues of urban economy, and urban planning problems have occupied less and less space in its work. The collisions of the Academy’s scientific work over the basic governmental task — the project of urban planning norms — are shown. The negative impact of political trialson the working conditions of the Academy in the 1930s is also revealed.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yulia Kosenkova
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/23
TI  - Academy of Municipal Engineering in the 1930s: The Failed Scientific Center of Urban Planning
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Architecture: Heritage, Traditions and Innovations (AHTI 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 368
EP  - 372
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200923.063
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200923.063
ID  - Kosenkova2020
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