The story of a failed experiment with a typical housing in the American Pruit Yogow, retold the other day by the RBK portal, caused another wave of discussions on the network on the topic of microdistrict construction. When asked why the United States abandoned this model in the future, while in the USSR and present-day Russia it has been “flourishing” for more than a decade, bloggers have different answers. “Most likely, they realized that the state can build up half of America in this way, and this is unprofitable for construction companies that fought at exorbitant prices for inferior quality,” argues hassur in the blog ibigdan.livejournal.com. - It is several times cheaper to maintain the communications of such a quarter than to delve into different boilers of different times and designs. Typical construction could destroy capitalism. I am sure that the order was for destruction. In the same way, houses are brought to the state of Pruit-Igou, and when they want to demolish, hassur believes, “they want to evict a house that interferes with the development of a shopping center, they stop picking up garbage, the number of crimes increases sharply, water pipe breaks …”
“It is absolutely clear that in the USA, which is focused on personal development, and not, as in the USSR, on the development of a welfare state, individual housing has become a priority,” Igor Popovsky explains the failure of the American experiment in the RUPA community. "So the African American community's community housing experience was doomed." But according to the blogger sebbenth, in such social quarters there is “50/50 guilt between residents and the city for failures”. Social housing, according to sebbenth, should not be concentrated in one area, scattered around the city, in order, for example, to provide its residents with a labor market in the district or socialization of children from poor families in schools; otherwise, it turns out that residents of such an area begin to oppose themselves to the "rest of the world" and it becomes very difficult to put things in order there, the blogger concludes.
“The American case will not be repeated in Russia, because all apartments have been privatized, and no one will leave them,” notes the user Alexander Kholodnov. “Practice has shown that the houses where people bought an apartment at their own expense look decent. There are like 10-20% of them in the country. And the average inhabitants who have received housing "for free" behave like cattle and gopniks. " So that typical Russian "sleeping bags" do not turn into new ghettos, their residents need to start "joint arrangement of someone else's" within the framework of creating condominiums or homeowners' associations, Yegor Shakhpenderyan is sure. True, the development of self-government, bloggers believe, is often resisted by the communities themselves, which are accustomed to receiving benefits in the old way, i.e. to the fact that the state pays for the actual maintenance of their homes.
The discussion around typical microdistricts, meanwhile, continued on the example of new buildings in St. Petersburg, which were recently discussed at the RBC roundtable within the framework of the Future Petersburg forum. The fact that the quality of these new buildings is inferior even to the "sleeping bags" of the Soviet era, some blame the developers themselves, others the city, and others the designers. “State institutions, especially large ones, work either according to Soviet patterns, or according to Western patterns,” says Irina Irbitskaya in the RUPA community. - There is no thinking. It's the same in Moscow. The future belongs to the flying light professional modules”. Now, however, it is fashionable to invite foreign specialists for this work, however, according to the blogger, foreigners “have no motivation to do quality in an environment that resists this quality at all levels”. And the user Alexander Kholodnov hopes that the regional authorities will intervene in the situation: according to the regulations in force in the Leningrad region, the blogger notes, “for the most delicious suburbs, it is written no higher than 12 floors and no denser than 4000 m2 per hectare. No self-respecting "sleeping bag" will fit into this format. So let's see who wins."
In the blog habrahabr.ru at this time, a conversation unfolded on the topic of the so-called. Smart city. Tourist blogger Silf publishes examples of technologically advanced, in his opinion, infrastructure of some cities, including, for example, French Bordeaux, where special trams on a contactless rail have been launched in the historical center. The user kazkar corrects the author in the comments that the “smart” city is primarily distinguished by automation, for example, “contactless passes, traffic analysis, unmanned metro”, and not trams and bike paths. These are not smart cities yet, but rather smartly planned cities, adds sCrasher. But in the commentary of Alexander Antonov, the "everyday" discussion of urban planning issues causes irony: "Planning of cities in Russia is becoming akin to the art of growing potatoes - everyone knows how to do it in their own garden, and everybody grows some kind of potato."
Meanwhile, in Moscow, under not entirely clarified circumstances, the foundry shop on the territory of the ZIL plant was demolished, as the chairman of the board of MAPS Marina Khrustaleva notes in the yopolis blog, a monument of industrial architecture of 1916. Behind the demolition, according to the author, is the GK TEN company, which has planned to build an Ice Palace in this part of the plant territory for the 2016 World Ice Hockey Championship. “Overlooking the TTK with a giant dusty stained-glass window, the Foundry inside resembled a Gothic cathedral, stunning in its scale” and could, as Marina Khrustaleva writes, compete with both the Orsay Museum and the Tate Gallery. Apparently, anticipating that this was far from the last demolition, sightseers rushed to look at the still preserved ZIL. For example, here is a circular photo panorama from the roof of the former Palace of Culture ZIL, which was made by one of the participants in the excursion with local historian Denis Romodin. Another photo report can be found on Elena Komarova's blog.
As a result, the demolition ended a long dispute between the city protection activists and the leadership of Russian Railways over the Circular Depot of the Nikolaev railway. Arkhnadzor reports that the vaults of seven sections of the depot were destroyed, in the place of which a rail track for suburban electric trains is planned. “Unfortunately, you cannot save anything! Everything they wanted to break was broken. Everything that they wanted to disfigure was disfigured,”the user Vitaly notes on this occasion. Arhnadzor did not support defeatist sentiments and now intend to challenge the conclusions of the expert examination ordered by the investor, in which, as activist Yuri Yegorov notes, “it is written in black and white that the project does not meet the requirements of FZ-73 and the approved subject of protection, however, due to its“exceptional importance "you can break the law."
Another part of city defenders is horrified that in the Moscow Kremlin, which is still included in the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage List, a helipad was recently built on the site of the Taynitsky Garden. “Do you remember that in 2007, in three months old wooden houses and a wooden water supply system of the 16th century were excavated here? - writes local historian Nikolai Avvakumov in the blog hitrovka.livejournal.com. - Now there is a helipad. There could be a museum of archeology here. " Blogger avmalgin agrees that it is high time to open the Kremlin for visits, and the current sacrifice is in vain: “As they rode motorcade, blocking the streets, and so they do. All these helicopters are PR, and in case of urgent evacuation from the besieged Kremlin, of course. " However, even in this case, according to avmalgin, stories are known when a helicopter landed directly on Cathedral Square.
We conclude the review with a note in the blog of architect Mikhail Belov, dedicated to the next competition for the project of the hotel complex "Tsarev Garden", which for several years now has been going to be built just opposite the Kremlin, on Sofiyskaya embankment. The architect, meanwhile, was surprised that the competition was held only for facades, because, as Mikhail Belov writes, the customer's general designer seems to be satisfied and everything has been designed for a long time: "Now we will have planners, cutters, facadeists and someone else." However, according to the architect, "it may turn out that the strengthening of technically competent, but artistically indefinite or helpless general design bureaus by specific personalities-architects for solving a particular problem is an effective move."
