Commie blocks are awesome, actually (a reply to Living Ironically in Europe & NFKRZ)

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► Sources (cited)

Owen Heatherly, The Architectural Review, Housing in the Eastern Bloc (2015)

Edmunds V Bunkse, The Role of a Humane Environment in Soviet Urban Planning (1979)

Jack C. Fisher, Planning the city of socialist man (1963)

Henry W. Morton, Housing in the Soviet Union (1984)

Jiri Musil, Urbanization in Socialist Countries (1980)

Peter Lizon, East Central Europe: The Unhappy Heritage of Communist Mass Housing (1996)

Gyorgy Enyedi, Urbanisation in East Central Europe: Social Processes and Societal Responses in the State Socialist Systems (1992)

Owen Heatherly - Housing in the eastern block. The architectural review (2015)


► Sources (for further reading)

Herny W. Morton, Who Gets What, When and How? Housing in the Soviet Union (1980)

Alexander Block, Soviet Housing. The Historical Aspect (1954)

M. F. Parkins, City planning in Soviet Russia, Harvard University, Russian Research Center, (1949)

Anna Schpuntova, Soviet mass housing. Making a modernist dream a reality, Architectural Association School of Architecture, 2021

William Richardson, Architecture, Urban Planning and Housing During the First Five Year Plans: Hannes Meyer in the USSR, 1930-1936

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