The past, present and future of the Soviet city plan

Abstract

The concept of city planning has always found a ready place in the Soviet ideology of centrally directed social change, and Soviet thinkers have long argued that national ownership of land and central planning of the economy are essential to its success. In actuality, however, the achievements of Soviet city planning have fallen far short of the planners’ aspirations, partly because of changing priorities, but also because of the failure to find an effective mechanism for controlling the urbanization process. The evolution of the urban general plan as the principal policy document in urban planning is described to the point in the early 1980s when widespread doubts were being voiced about its effectiveness. The changes brought about in the latest phase of the Gorbachev administration are then discussed in the context of radical economic and social measures which promise to change the entire context in which city planning operates and call many of its long‐standing assumptions into question.

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