Urban Planning in the Soviet Union and China

Abstract

Urban planning in the Soviet Union during the first decades after the revolution was characterized by daring new proposals, creative re-evaluation of existing plans, and vigorous debate. But the early experiments in urban design have been increasingly abandoned and in many important respects Soviet urban planning has come to resemble that of capitalist countries. At present the dominant school of urban planners and social scientists in the Soviet Union view this trend approvingly. In China, however, urban planning seems to be taking cities in directions entirely different from those of the Soviet Union or Western capitalist countries.

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