Transport in Mikrorayons

Accessibility and Proximity to Centrally Planned Residential Districts during the Socialist Era, 1957–1989

Residential housing compounds known as mikrorayons were enclosed within vast housing estates and served as central features of socialist urbanism in the Eastern Bloc. To reduce daily travel, designers located the communities on well-considered metropolitan sites and proposed embedded commercial oppo...

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Volume:	17
Main Author:	Hess, Daniel Baldwin
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.08.2018
published in:	Journal of planning history Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 184 - 204
Data of publication:	20180800
ISSN:	1538-5132 1552-6585
EISSN:	1552-6585
Discipline:	Sociology & Social History
Subjects:	residential development mobility access microdistrict mikrorayon housing socialism transport urban planning sustainability microraion travel Soviet Union
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS