First Steps to Industrialization: the Soviet Experience of the 1930s–1940s

Abstract

Urban planning and architectural standards were the result of the centralised distribution of material and financial resources among Peopleʼs Commissariats to realize governmental construction plans. Every Peopleʼs Commissariat should have received equal resources for housing and municipal-domestic service construction, for the same number of workers and employees, to ensure equal terms for them. Urban planning standards were a mechanism to meet these institutional and management challenges. As a result, urban planning standards ensured the stability of 5 mutually linked indicators: a) housing stock typology, b) building density and the intensity of territorial engineering equipment, c) the area of housing per person, d) the presence of a functional set of services for the citizens, prescribed by the planning authorities, and e) the area of the facilities for household waste, per resident.