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Continuation of a Planning Tradition: The Social Agenda of the ‘Functional City’

Issue: 2013, Volume 47, No. 3 - 4

The Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) from 1928 to 1959 was an unconventional working group and a complex laboratory of progressive ideas for the design of the city. Over three decades, CIAM united architects, town planners, artists, historians, sociologists and journalists. Its writings on the ‘Functional City’ in particular were considered the core of modern […]

Urban Planning and Construction of the Interwar City of Uzhhorod: Mission Interrupted

Issue: 2020, Volume 54, No. 1 - 2

After Uzhhorod became the administrative centre of Subcarpathian Ruthenia, the city gained a unique privilege – to become its capital at the time of development of modernism. The administrative and residential part Maly Galagov, which was created as a result of the gradual implementation of the main regulatory plan from 1920–1923, became the new core […]