THE MAJOR PROBLEM OF MODERN POST-SOVIET URBAN PLANNING: THE SINGLE-STOREY USSR
The chapter from the book.
Nowadays it’s typical for Belarusian cities almost not to have individual dwelling zones with developed civil engineering infrastructure. Although low-rise building quota is 40% of total input squares every year, this housing development is conducted fragmentary and far away from main urban parts. New house building in individual dwelling zone is not stylistic regulated, not equipped with engineering communications and it often looks chaotic. In low-rise building activity there are only a few big
development companies in Belarus.
Despite of pulling down and transformation of microdistricts in the cities of western Europe and the USA, the overwhelming territory of big cities is built up with dwelling formations of microdistrict type. Existing individual dwelling zones in the cities of Belarus, as a formation of the pre-microdistricts epoch, is endangered of settling. Because the city authorities are planning to build microdistricts almost everywher…
