Goroda-Sady v Svyazi s Zhilishchnym Voprosom. [Garden Cities in Connection with the Housing Problems].: Edited by D. Protopopov.

First edition.

Early Russian edition about Garden City movement (Urban Planning Concept) – the ideal residential community and the balanced mix of residence areas, industry and agriculture, in which self-contained districts are surrounded by green spaces. The concept was devised by the English town planner Ebenezer Howard in 1898. Garden City was a possible solution to overpopulation and a response to the need for improvement in the quality of urban life. This monograph mostly devoted to realized projects in England: Letchworth Garden City (the world's first Garden City), Bournville and Port Sunlight (factory workers housing), Hampstead Garden Suburb, Brentham Garden Suburb and Harborne. The book illustrated with city plans and rare photos (streets, houses, factories and boulevards). Bibliography about Garden City movement also preserved (in Russian, English, German, French, Swedish and Polish). In the end author mentioned several Russian programs: Russia's first Garden City of Prozorovka (now Kratovo, 40 km. from Moscow), designed for the employees of the Moscow-Kazan railway, and Kaiserwald (Tsar's forest now called Mezaparks) in the north of Riga. The book was issued by Russian Garden City Society (established in the end of 1913). It was headed by the publisher D. Protopopov and the attorney A. Blokh. 'The society announced its intention to 'use the short though rich experience of its big brothers abroad' in order to seek the improvement of housing conditions both in the city and countryside. The Garden City idea took quite deep root in Russian soil and stimulated the development of international ties in Russian gardening. In May 1914 the International Gardening Exhibition with representatives from France, Belgium and Holland opened in St. Petersburg. In July that year a Russian Delegation participated in the work of the International Congress of Garden Cities held in Britain' (The European City and Green Space: London, Stockholm, Helsinki and St. Petersburg, 1850-2000, edited by Clark, P. London, New York: Routledge, 2006). Between 1919 and the early 1920s some of Howard's ideas were used in the construction plan for Petrograd, which was conceived as a 'seaside Garden City' (one of the symbols of the bright Communist future).

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