REBUILDING MOSCOW.
PLANS OF THE SOVIET. MODEL CITY PROPOSED. BERLIN, July 10. Moscow will become a model city if the design of its chief town planning architect, M. JVlever, is realised. ' •' *■ M. Meyer, lecturing in Cologne, saul the Soviet plan to rebuild Moscow from a central hub, which will replace the old city and consist of the headquarters of the Government, people's commissars, 'Communist Party and trades unions. From the hub ten sectors will radiate, each possessing its own administrative and economic life, with 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 workers to waik to their employment. It was anticipated that the sector system would result in distribution of traffic thiough the city. The population of Moscow in 1920 was L 000..000. Now it is 1 2..800.000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20925, 15 July 1931, Page 11
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