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Hello! My name is Grigory Stukalov, I am an architect of UNESCO sites, an urbanist, a teacher, the author of three books on urban planning including the book "Urban planning: city atlas", which was written on the basis of the project of a large city developed alone by me.

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Undoubtedly, the main object of "Urban planning: city atlas" is the visual part, which takes up about 65% of its volume. From the aesthetic point of view, the city maps are wholesome and self-sufficient graphic works on urban planning, which open up a new kind of free town  planning creativity.

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At the moment, there are no competing books on such subjects in the world. An increasing number of people  are  interested  in  urban  planning: city-building  games  for  modeling  cities   are  developing 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stukalov Grigory - author of the Solovetsky archipelago (UNESCO) plan

 

more and more (such as "Cities: Skylines", "Cities XL" - so, YouTube is littered with them; by the way, there is a CD in my book - a disk with a virtual model), a lot of fans of urban public transport, a large number of people are interested in urban planning, landscaping and urbanism in general. At the same time, in my opinion, the literature in this subject is presented extremely one–sided in the book market - there are no books in the format of a "full-fledged city project", with countless maps, transport schemes, their own fictional world.

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I often ask myself the following question: why does fiction exist as a model of fictional life, but there is not a single book modeling the life of a huge city? I believe that this book will be the first in this genre!

 

The  project  of  the  metropolitan  city  Seymen,  presented  in the  book,  clearly  demonstrates  the  process  of  urban  planning from  scratch  to  a  finished  megapolis  project.  The  city  project embodies a combination of experience in European urbanism, scientific and practical methods of the modernist urban planning school, as well as personal experience and creativity. Therefore, when looking at the map of the city you can see areas built on the pattern of the great global cities – London, Paris, and Berlin. Moreover, planning integration of such areas into one city is very delicate.

 

The book contains detailed maps, diagrams, descriptions of this city, as well as the types of modern urban practices that I studied. The book has been translated into English professionally.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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One of the book spread

 

The book is based on an atlas (high quality) of the world’s single largest author’s city. Also the book contains maps, drawings, transport diagrams and panoramas, a 3D model of the city on a CD, and other graphic materials, a folding map of the city, attached to the book.

My authorship was registered in 2022 with the book «Urban Planning: City Atlas» as a "Text and artwork" 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The certificate of registration TX9-157-532

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

General view of the city on the competition tablet

 

in The Copyright Office of The Library of Congress of the USA (see  certificate of registration TX9-157-532)

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Author's CV

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2006-2012 – studying at the Ufa State University (Faculty of Architecture, diploma with honors);

2012-2013 – working as an architect in a design company JSC "Bashkirgrazhdan-project";

2013-2017 – working as a lead architect in the leading design and scientific laboratory JSC "Ros NIPI Urbanistics" (leading the project team, sketching, author supervision. I produced master plans of several cities, architectural concepts, zones of protection of monuments included in the UNESCO World Heritage Lists, in particular, the master plan & zones f protection of the Solovetsky Archipelago (the most famous literary work of the Soviet dissident Solzhenitsyn A.I. was written about it: «Archipelago – GULAG») and the project of protection zones of the oldest Christian monasteries of Veliky Novgorod (monasteries with a 1000-year history).

2015 – becoming a member of the Union of Architects

2016-2018 – working as a teacher of urban planning & architecture at leading universities in     St. Petersburg, in particular, at ITMO University (included in the top 100 universities in the world according to the University Impact Rankings from the rating agency Times Higher Education, 2019).

              Some teaching subjects:

              - modern urban planning;

              - urban planning law;

              - development of a master plan of fiction city (practical lessons);

              - architectural graphics;

              - architectural design (course projects).

since 2020– working as a lead architect in the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture of the St. Petersburg City Hall (coordination process of construction projects, control over land use, coordination process of outdoor improvement projects).

 Academic:

- Stukalov G.V., Surovenkov, A.V., Skopina M.V. and Tuhtareva J. Chapter «Decline of “one-storied USSR” politics in cities of Russia», Reconstruction and Restoration of Architectural Heritage 1st Edition, Taylor & Francis, 2020 (Netherlands, ISBN 978-0367653576);

- Stukalov, G.V.  Metropolitan city planning.  Sport and culture, Moscow, 2015   (ISBN 978-5-91775-223-5);

- Stukalov, G.V.  Gradostroitelstvo. Sport and culture, Moscow, 2017   (ISBN 978-5-9500348-1-7);

- Silver diploma of the 16th Open Architectural Review–competition 2012 "Golden Capital", Novosibirsk.

Glossy magazines:

- The ideas of the "Solntsegrad" -  in the projects of cities. "Ufa", № 2, 2013,  ISBN 5-8258-0167-7;

- The warm city - template.  Modern architecture etc.№ 4.2013.