The Moscow authorities have decided to assist developers and cancel public hearings on the city planning of land plots (GPZU). According to the amendments prepared by the Moscow City Duma, it is planned to discuss with residents only the most general things at the level of the general plan of the city. "Backwardness wins together with the inhabitants," says the initiator of the amendments, MP Mikhail Moskvin-Tarkhanov. - "Where the citizens won, and the developer left, there are ruins, wasteland, dirt, garbage …", - quotes the magazine "Afisha" statements of the deputy. The bloggers did not share the MP's regrets that the city was thus losing “big funds and great opportunities,” however, no one harbors illusions about the effectiveness of the hearings. City advocates remind that these meetings often turn into a farce with overtaken extras, which, however, cannot be a reason for their cancellation. On the contrary, it is necessary to expand the powers of public hearings and conduct them more correctly, writes Arkhnadzor coordinator Dmitry Lisitsyn, since, according to the town rights activist, today this is almost the only legal way to somehow restrain business.
But architects, who each time spend their money and nerves on hearings, will find it easier to live - they, notes Alexander Ostrogorsky on the page of the "Association of Developers of Urban Planning Documentation" on Facebook, will gladly do without the burdensome procedure. Meanwhile, the Moscow government will not be able to cancel the hearings altogether, Alexander Antonov is sure, this will contradict the federal law. “Discussing the GPZU is, of course, stupid,” Alexander Lozhkin agrees, “but under the sly they want to shorten the time for informing citizens and turn public hearings into an empty formality.”
In the meantime, in Minsk, it is according to this scenario that a public discussion of the project for the reconstruction of the historical center with the reconstruction of the so-called. Minsk castle. According to residents, the presented diagrams and drawings do not make it possible to understand what exactly is being reconstructed. Meanwhile, users of the onliner.by portal are actively discussing the position of the chairman of the Belarusian Voluntary Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, Anton Astapovich, who called the current project falsification of the lost historical environment. However, on the Internet there is no consensus on this matter: someone wonders why to restore the "provincial-small town buildings of the XIX century." For example, blogger Pantner writes: “We need to build a normal modern metropolis, comfortable for life, and not try to prove our great past, for this we have Grodno and Nesvizh”. By the way, users are concerned not only with historical monuments, but also with their own houses, in the place of which a PIMP user in the project discovered parking lots.
The blog u1ver.livejournal.com launched an equally heated discussion of the new concept of building the city of Grozny, promulgated after its new master plan. On visualizations, Grozny after 2030 is not inferior to Dubai - with skyscrapers of business centers on Kadyrov Avenue and Mayakovsky Street, modern residential areas on the site of the Central Market and the imposing building of the Council of Deputies, which is popularly nicknamed the Sphinx. The RUPA community has calculated that by 2030, 7-8 million people will live in Grozny - not enough to populate "all these mansions." And today, as Alexander Antonov notes, Grozny is a dead city. Its residents, meanwhile, confirm that the constructed skyscrapers are half empty. “This is another City of the Sun, which is impossible like the Perpetual Motion Machine,” agrees Vitaliy Drobilenko. The improvement of the territory is secondary in relation to the socio-political structure of the state, the user writes, so for the implementation of such a project it is necessary to make Chechnya "an emir's monarchy and the world's largest oil supplier." Bloggers, by the way, noticed that public transport is completely absent in the pictures - the author of the magazine notes that the restoration of the trams and trolleybuses that were in the pre-war city in the project is in question.
About whether it is possible to build a city from scratch and what kind of architecture in general is capable of forming the fabric of the city, they argued in the blog of Mikhail Belov. Alexander Lozhkin, Levon Airapetov and Lara Kopylova joined the discussion. When asked whether modernist buildings alone can form a city equivalent to a historical one, the initiator of the discussion, Mikhail Belov, answers unequivocally negatively, reinforcing his position with a beautiful allegory: “Classical architects are spiders weaving cities. Modernist - magpies who pull all sorts of things into heaps."
A good illustration of this discourse could be the modernist residential complex Corviale in Rome, an interesting report about which Denis Romodin wrote in his blog. Corviale is a non-touristy place, suffice it to say that the Romans themselves call it a monster. Il Mostro, meanwhile, is very reminiscent of the Moscow house-ship on Tulskaya, the author of the magazine notes. Bloggers talk about the reasons for the unpopularity of modernist architecture in their own way. For example, met0 writes: “The Corbusiers are the same all over the world - from Brazil to Milton Keynes. Everywhere the same squalor and triumph of imaginary expediency with a complete lack of understanding of human nature. And Boris Vorobyev found purely technical miscalculations in Corviale's project, such as a flat facade, not protected from the direct sun in any way.
At the end of the review, we present an interesting report on the albokarev.livejournal.com blog, which contains the main events related to the monuments of wooden religious architecture in Russia in 2012. The report contains three parts - losses, restoration and conservation. Fortunately, the first does not outweigh the rest: churches are not only destroyed from dilapidation and burn, but are also being restored. Bloggers, meanwhile, argue about what appearance should be returned to the church during restoration with subsequent restructuring and state the absurd situation with the inclusion of churches in the register of monuments: it turns out that primary emergency work is easier to carry out on buildings that do not have the status of a monument - less paperwork. concludes the blog author.
