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Though the construction of these new developments promised greenery and public spaces, for some, this meager setup is as far as development went after the concrete aspects were covered.

The beginning of construction of a 74th mikroraion in Khoroshevo-Mnevniki

the assembling of the prefabricated housing. the dirt of the construction period often made part of the mikrorarion's landscape during its first years of existence

There were approximately 5,500 Lenin monuments in Ukraine in 1991. By October 2014, that number has decreased to about 1700-1800, according to http://leninstatues.ru/skolko.

Planned at a construction pace of a thousand kilometers per year, the Reichsautobahn—or Straßen Adolf Hitlers—was to crisscross all of the Reich’s territory. Combined with intense motorization—exemplified in the concept…

The intense dynamic between the engineers and the “landscape advocates” involved in the Reichsautobahn designis best illustrated in the debate on how the highways should be laid upon landscape. The engineers, following the logic of the…

Published in "Raumforschung und Raumordnung" - the monthly journal of the Reich's Society for Spatial Science, and the prestige venue for exhibiting the Reich's plans for the "East" - this sketch shows the proposed extension of the Reichsautobahn…

В. Сиринъ, Возвращенiе Чорба, First Edition, Berlin: Slovo, 1929."A Guide to Berlin" was first published in book form as part of this collection.