Problems of Housing Construction in the Late XIX – Early XX Centuries

The problems of housing in urban planning under the conditions of technological progress of the late XIX – early XX centuries are considered. The concept of the garden-city in the implemented projects of the cities of this period is analyzed The contribution of the French architect T. Garnier to the development of housing construction for workers as part of the complex project “Industrial City” and influenced the layout of industrial cities in the USSR and other countries is noted. The issues of using the ideas of architects of the 1920s and 1930s as a tool for increasing the productivity of factory workers and accounting for the population in the USSR are highlighted on the example of Magnitogorsk and Chelyabinsk. The available methods of rapid construction of residential buildings are considered; the methods of construction of economical prefabricated housing are indicated.

Yu.V. DENISOVA, Architect (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Moscow Institute of Architecture (State Academy) (11/4, Rozhdestvenka Street, Moscow, 107031, Russian Federation)

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