The Use of Open Spaces in the Districts of Belyayevo and Chertanovo Severnoye in Moscow

Essay, High Density, Pablo Goldin, Politics and economics, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Borders, Buildings, Cities, Citizen interaction, Collective housing, Community, Context, Essay, Functionality, High-rise, Iconic architecture, Ideology, Laboratory, Lifestyle, Moscow, Open Space, Porosity, Russia, Scales, Social habitat, Space-time relationship, Spatial Ideologies, urban, Urban Configurations, Urban environment, Urban landscape, Urban planning, Urban research, Urban strategy, Vegetation

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Belyayevo and Chertanovo Severnoye Microdistricts in Moscow offer different approaches to similar housing de­mands that Russian cities faced during the Soviet era. Belyayevo was developed under the mandate of Khrushchev in the 1950s with five-level buildings called “khrushchevki” that had bad construction quality but offered single apartments and green spaces, breaking with the typology of the communal dwellings from previous decades (Expatica, 2019) (Snopek, 2013).