Started by Kate Lindqvist (@concrete_kate) ·
why every ex-Soviet city has the same apartment blocks
6 sources · 47 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- Why do Soviet apartment blocks all look identical?
- Ended at
- Microdistrict
The Trail
- “why do soviet apartment buildings look the same” (google.com)
- Khrushchevka (en.wikipedia.org)
- Panel building (en.wikipedia.org)
- Large-panel-system building (en.wikipedia.org)
- Brezhnevka (en.wikipedia.org)
- Microdistrict (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
Khrushchev's 1950s housing push needed millions of flats fast, so they were built from standardized precast concrete panels assembled on site in weeks. Same factories, same designs, from Tallinn to Vladivostok.
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