3. Introduction to the System of Soviet Mass Housing. Type Design, Typification and Typology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction
4. 1. The Future of Modernist Housing 11
5. International Experiences and Practices on Prefabricated Panel Buildings and Their Urban Environments
6. Introduction 19
7. Housing Typologies and Urban Environment
8. Introduction 21
9. 2. Understanding the Origin, Trajectories of Change, and Future Prospects for Large Housing Estates in Europe 25
10. 3. Introduction to the System of Soviet Mass Housing. Type Design, Typification and Typology 49
11. 4. Maintaining Mass Housing: Methodology of Research and Comparative Perspective 75
12. 5. Non-Capital Renovation—Urban Tissue Morphotypes and Evaluation of Potential of Intensive Development: Saint Petersburg as Case Study 91
13. Citizens and Neighborhood
14. Introduction 119
15. 6. Large Housing Estates: A Place to Call “Home” 121
16. 7. Images and Identities of the Post-Socialist Housing Estates in Ukraine vs. Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities 141
17. 8. Perceptions and Constructed Marginality in Soviet and Post-Soviet Large Housing Estates: The Case of Saint Petersburg, Russia 157
18. 9. Collective Housing Complexes of Socialist Yugoslavia: The Development of Living Standards and the Strengthening of Communities 169
19. 10. Challenge of Demographic Change — Recognizing General and Site-Specific Aspects in Large Housing Estates 185
20. Economy and Policies
21. Introduction 199
22. 11. Innovation in Housing: Decarbonization in Latvia 201
23. 12. Property Relationships and Post-Soviet Urban Planning: Three Critical Cases 217
24. 13. Strategies for Complex Transformation in Vilnius 233
25. 14. Reimagining Housing Estates and the Nexus of Planning and Policy 243
26. Transformation of Large Housing Settlements in Russia and Ukraine
27. Introduction 261
28. 15. Irkutsk Akademgorodok District—Principles for the Development of Spatial Qualities 263
29. 16. The Future of the New Past: Changes in Public Spaces in the Novo-melnikovo District in Irkutsk 281
30. 17. The Present State and Perspectives of Development of Cheryomushki in Krasnoyarsk 297
31. 18. Development of Mass Housing Districts in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Cheryomushki and Tairovo in Odessa 305
32. Contributors 323