REBUILDING MOSCOW
SOVIET’S AMBITIOUS PLANS LONDON, July 2. 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 the dwellings and factories near each other would enable workers to walk to their employment, and it was anticipated that the sector system would result in an even distribution of traffic throughout the city. The population of Moscow in 1920 was 1,000,000. It was now 2,800,000.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21390, 18 July 1931, Page 11
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