Principles of Town Planning in the Soviet Union: Volume II

The second volume is dedicated to a detailed analysis of questions connected with the development of separate parts or regions of a town. It deals with such questions as planning and building-up of industrial and residential schemes as the organization of cultural and welfare facilities for a town as a whole and for its individual regions. Great attention is paid to the question of planting. The section "Planning and Development of Town Industrial Regions" deals with problems concerning the planning organization of such regions. This section includes requirements concerning the planning and the development of industrial estates in new as well as in existing towns. The section "Planning and Development of Residential Areas" considers questions concerning the progress of housing at different stages of our country's development. The section "Network of Cultural and Welfare Facilities" generalizes the experience obtained in the location of cultural and welfare establishments, gives an account of objective natural phenomena acting in the field of population servicing, determines the basic principles for locating service establishments both in the town itself and in the suburban zone, and outlines the way for the development of service facilities in the first period of building as well as in long-term planning. The section "System of Planting" deals with the part played by plants and greenery in the improvement of the town microclimate and of the sanitary conditions.