Reconstructing yourself in a changing urban environment

14 February 2008

Collective Housing


This is not an advertising, nor a reading note...but I am posting this information on this unconventional topic related to the culture of the red Russia: the communitarian housing. As I have not read the book but only the little summary you have on the image [on your left], I have been however very interested by the topic in relation to my interests towards the practices of community development and housing in the United States. Of course none of this imposed and applied collectivism of the housing conditions and production happened in the US as in Russia. But the dream of community at large in neighborhoods also reached a certain exclusion and norms without the political and ideological oppression lived by the Russians.
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