REBUILDING MOSCOW.
SOVIET’S AMBITIOUS PLANS. M. Meyer, chief town-planning architect of Moscow, lecturing at Cologne, Germany, revealed Soviet plans for rebuilding ’Moscow from a central hub which would replace the old city. This hub would consist of the headquarters of the Government, the people’s commissars, the Communist Party, and the trade unions, and from it 10 sectors would radiate ; each possessing its own administrative and economic life, stores, schools, an enormous communal kitchen, central laundry, and bread factory. The sectors would be separated by extensive open spaces. The construction of dwellings and factories near each other would enable lvorkers to walk to their emplovment, and it was anticipated that the sector system would result in an even distribution of traffic throughout the citv. The population of Moscow in 1920 was 1,000,000. It was now 2,800,000.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 198, 23 July 1931, Page 7
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135REBUILDING MOSCOW. Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 198, 23 July 1931, Page 7
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