Back to Utopia? The Soviet New Town of Togliatti
2017; Société française d'histoire urbaine; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2101-003X
Autores Tópico(s)Urbanization and City Planning
ResumoAs early as 1930, the objectives of the Soviet Five-Year Plan required new industrial centres to be created, along with urban facilities on an appropriate scale. Thus, in 1967, the construction of the AvtoVAZ plant required the construction of a new urban centre in Togliatti. This project was carried out under the supervision of Boris Rubanenko as a genuine pilot experiment. Despite using prefabricated materials on a massive scale and heavy budget cuts, the architects persevered in their determination to create an almost ideal city, not without also working around the expectations of the Brezhnev regime. Hence the objective was indeed to finally create the exemplary city of a renewed vision of socialism. The result was the production of a schizophrenic Trojan Horse city that served both the regime’s propaganda and claimed to be the rightful heir for the most utopic urban conceptions of the USSR.
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