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The cybernetic eye: scientific planning in the Soviet Mikroraion
This article looks at Soviet housing construction practices from a ‘cybernetic eye’ perspective, suggesting that this total approach to planning is fundamental to understanding the spatial logic undergirding the Soviet and post-Soviet urban landscape. It offers connections between the field of cybernetics and the Soviet mode of thinking about housing as a logistical problem of optimising the technology, types of housing, configuration, materials, and costs, into comprehensively designed units of planning. To illustrate the emergence of the ‘cybernetic eye’ logic, it focuses on the mikroraion as the site of implementation for Khrushchev’s program of scientific planning.
The cybernetic eye: scientific planning in the Soviet Mikroraion
This article looks at Soviet housing construction practices from a ‘cybernetic eye’ perspective, suggesting that this total approach to planning is fundamental to understanding the spatial logic undergirding the Soviet and post-Soviet urban landscape. It offers connections between the field of cybernetics and the Soviet mode of thinking about housing as a logistical problem of optimising the technology, types of housing, configuration, materials, and costs, into comprehensively designed units of planning. To illustrate the emergence of the ‘cybernetic eye’ logic, it focuses on the mikroraion as the site of implementation for Khrushchev’s program of scientific planning.
The cybernetic eye: scientific planning in the Soviet Mikroraion
West, Diana Kurkovsky (author)
The Journal of Architecture ; 24 ; 699-717
2019-07-04
19 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Cybernetic theory & architecture
| British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
Soviet Scientific Personalities - USSR
NTIS | 1960