Main entry:

Strange, Clayton, author.

Title & Author:

Monotown : urban dreams brutal imperatives / Clayton Strange.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

San Francisco : Applied Research and Design, [2019]
©2019

Description:

xii, 420 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Part 1. Preliminary frameworks : Defining the monotown : Gradoobrazuyushcheye predpriyatiye: the enterprise that has created the town ; Common threads -- Urban dreams, brutal imperatives : The urban network and culture of territory: Russia's long struggle with geography ; A growing impetus for "self-colonization" ; Land and housing under the new economic policy 1921-1928 ; New architectural types: clubs, communes and factories as social condensers ; Clubs and a new monumental imagery ; Communal houses ; Remaking the city to remaking the territory ; Brutal imperatives ; Urban dreams ; The monotown -- Part 2. Monotowns : Novotroitsk: a new steel base in the Urals : The great Urals plan ; A 20-year operation ; The evolving form of the Soviet monotown ; Post-Soviet Novotroitsk and the project of autonomy -- Yurga: defense industry and a new post-industrial project : Planned town, organic network: defense industrialization of a Siberian village ; New frameworks for the post-Soviet-monotown ; A new project of adaptation -- Mezhdurechensk: territorial production of the Kuznetsk Basin : Regionalism and the territorial production complex ; Coal as a generative landscape ; Mountains, materials, and a monotown ; Spaces of transition, supra-urban infrastructures -- Krasnokamensk: monotown in the Valley of Death : Autonomy and extraterritoriality: monotowns of Northeast Asia ; Borderland: a landscape palimpsest ; Uranium and its monotown: another national imperative ; An ideal town for recent graduates ; Territory and beyond -- Part 3. Translations : Baiyin: developing the west: Soviet industrial urbanization in China : A framework for industrialization ; A new society in place of the old ; Haojiachuan and the Loess Plateau ; Spatial and institutional frameworks: planning Baiyin ; Baiyin's plans and the form of the city ; Old Baiyin ; New Baiyin -- Bhilai: a socialist industrial utopia in India : Soviet influence in the Indian planning apparatus ; An amalgam of infrastructures, ideologies, and agendas ; Industry as a modernist project ; Legacy and emerging challenges -- Bokaro: contesting the developmental landscape : Development of the Damodar Valley ; Democracy, socialism, and Indian expertise ; New township strategies ; Growth, transformation, and shifting institutional priorities -- Panzhihua: building a landscape of metal along the Great Third Front : An impregnable cloud-ringed fortress ; The Great Third Front ; Chimeric adaptations: extreme planning along the Jinsha River ; From farms to factories and back again: post-1978 development ; Left behind -- Epilogue : A new project of reinvention : Framing the hinterland ; Nowhere to go ; A common project.

Summary:

"Monotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives examines the post-industrial transformation and transnational legacy of planned single-industry towns which emerged as a distinctive sociopolitical project of urbanization in the Soviet Union during the 1920s. Monotowns took form through the teleological establishment of industrial enterprises strewn across remote parts of the Siberian hinterland and entailed the relocation of vast populations requiring services, housing, and social and physical infrastructure, all linked to a given town's productive apparatus. Today, having outlasted the political and economic systems which made them viable, many have become shrinking towns with graying populations and obsolete enterprises, even as they are subjected to considerable national investment and commanded to grow in order to catalyze their respective regions. Given this implied imperative for transformation, the work goes on to explore the largely overlooked legacy of the Monotown as a model of urbanization that was deployed upon remote geographies of China and India through Soviet-aided industrial development projects. By exploring the etymology of the Monotown over time in this expanded field, the work establishes a broader yet more specific dialogue about this model's complex legacy and future. Monotown was selected as a winner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book prize for 2020."-- Provided by publisher.

Biographical note:

Clayton Strange is a U.S. Registered Architect and founding principal of Strange Works Studio, which investigates relationships between architecture, landscape, infrastructure, and human settlement.

ISBN:

9781939621573 hardcover
1939621577 hardcover

Subject:

Company towns Soviet Union Case studies.
Company towns Russia (Federation) Siberia Case studies.
Company towns China Case studies.
Company town architecture Soviet Union Case studies.
Company town architecture Russia (Federation) Siberia Case studies.
Company town architecture China Case studies.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern
Company towns.
Soviet Union.

Form/genre:

Case studies
Études de cas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307125
Call No.: BIB 252632
Status: Available