The Ideal Communist City: The i Press Series on the Human Environment in Bloomington, MN

The Ideal Communist City (Andrei Baburov, Georgi Djumenton, Alexei Gutnov, Zoya Kharitonova, Ilya Lezava, Stanislav Zadovskij), comprises urben concepts by architects and planners at the University of Moscow written during the late 1950s and first published in a journal of a communist your organization in 1960. The architects' collective imagines urban life "structured by freely chosen relationship represents the fullest, most well-rounded aspects of each human personality." The Ideal Communist City was first published in English in 1971 within the influential series on architecture and urban theory, the i press series on the human environment, initiated by Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas McNulty. This volume comprises a facsimile edition of the original title with a foreword by Ana Miljacki, professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.