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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Gradostroitel`stvo Rossii Serediny XIX - Nachala XX Veka
Obshchaia Kharakteristika i Teoreticheskie Problemy
[ Town planning in Russia of the mid 19th - early 20th centuries : Obshchaia Kharakteristika i Teoreticheskie Problemy]
Ed. by E.I. Kirichenko
Moscow: Progress-Traditsiia; NII Teorii Arkhetektury i Gradostroitel`stva, 2001 336 p Serie: Russkoe Gradostroitel`noe Iskusstvo Hardcover. 24.5 x 33 cm ISBN: 5898260838 Language: Russian
This is the first of three volumes of a monograph that studies the peculiarities of Russian city planning and development in the second half of the nineteenth-early twentieth centuries. The authors identify the main factors of city structure and image, including urbanization and the phenomena of the metropolis. Special attention is paid to government policy in the architectural and building industry, evolution of professional views in this field, professional and legal basis of city development. Richly illustrated with rare pictures, city plans, and drawings of all the major cities of the Russian Empire. Color and black-and-white. illustrations. Name index and index of towns, settlements, and architectural objects.