Search Results: Garden city from Biblionne

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… Read More

Moskva, Gosudarstvennoe tekhnicheckoe izdatel'stvo, 1922.Limited to 5 000 copies.
The original essay by prominent architect Grigori Barkhin (1880-1969). He started from classics buildings in Irkutsk and Moscow, but well-known by his avant-garde works in 1920s, mostly for his Izvestia Headquarters project (1926), a modern office building for the official newspaper of the Soviet government. During the Great War and the Civil War building construction had virtually collapsed. At once the newborn country faced with the problem of overpopulation and low quality housing for workers. It was unacceptable to live in such facilities for new ruling class. So, in the propaganda of the early 1920s garden city movement was used as one of the symbols of the bright Communist future. The book is divided into four parts: technical and sanitary housing standards, building materials and supplies, workers' house types, city garden and garden suburbs. Soviet architects were invited to use foreign attempts, such as… Read More

Early Russian edition about the Garden City movement. The first and only edition of the book. This Urban Planning Concept was devised by the English town planner Ebenezer Howard in 1898. It was a response to the need for improvement in the quality of urban life, which had changed since the Industrial Revolution. Serfdom survived in Russia longer than in any other major European country and was not abolished until 1861. That's why in the years before the First World War, Russia remained slowly modernization nation. Small percentage of the population living in cities was concentrated in Moscow and Saint Petersburg and tripled after 1870. However, the garden city idea attracted the greatest interest and had the most lasting influence exactly in Russia. Early Soviet projects for planned communities show a continuity with prerevolutionary ideas. In 1909, after small party of some Russians toured English Garden cities, first Russian edition of Howard's Garden Cities of To-morrow appeared. In 1913 the… Read More