DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2023-3-73-84
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Aleksandr E. KUDRYAVTSEV
Key words
post-war reconstruction, housing construction, urban reconstruction, infrastructure development, housing solution
Abstract
The relevance of the article is due to the constant peoples’ need for a better and more comfortable housing, a convenient urban environment. Historically, we often turn to the past experience of solving the housing problem in our country, often not paying attention to the ways that other countries used. The presented article is intended to fill this gap.
The purpose of the study is to review and compare the process of post-war housing restoration in the USSR, the USA and Europe on the example of France. This makes it possible to identify positive and negative aspects of various approaches to urban planning.
Materials and methods. The presented article is based on the study of scientific literature, archival materials, periodicals. The research is based on publicly available sources, including foreign ones; some of them are translated for the first time. At this, both universal scientific and particular methods of historical research are used: the concrete historical method, comparative analysis.
Study results. The article brings to light the history of development and shows different ways of solving housing problems that arose as a result of the Second World War in the states with different economic conditions and political systems at the time of the end of the war.
Conclusions. Every city, every country has its own problems. In each specific situation, in different historical periods, only the set of these problems, their depth and severity of manifestation change. To be successful in solving these problems, it is important to be able to analyze and summarize the experience of different countries, see the positive and negative aspects in their solutions and use combinations of the best methods.
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Information about the author
Aleksandr E. Kudryavtsev – Post-Graduate Student, Department of Methodology, History and Philosophy of Science, Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R.E. Alekseev, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod (ashas100500@yandex.ru).
For citations
Kudryavtsev A.E. SOLVING THE HOUSING PROBLEM IN THE USSR, THE USA AND EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR II: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, 2023, no. 3, pp. 73–84. DOI: 10.47026/1810-1909-2023-3-73-84 (in Russian).
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