| Abstract: | Rapid urbanization, a high pace of industrialization, and the demands of Soviet Marxist ideology have confronted Soviet city planners with enormous tasks. These are further complicated by the disadvantageous position of local government units as opposed to industries located in their territory, the manner in which national economic planning sometimes hinders efforts at local planning, and certain weaknesses of the city planning profession in both training and methods. While there is a great and continuing quantitative increase in apartment housing, the existence of the individual house poses special problems for city planners, and the construction of local facilities and services has not kept up with housing. The planner's attack on urban problems has recently focused on two programs: design of residential areas as largely self-contained micro-districts, and the reduction of center-city concentration via the satellite city. |
