The binary logic and the socialist city Authors Konstantin Lidin https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7022-6871 Mark Meerovich RAACS; Irkutsk National Research Technical University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3530-7558 Anastasia Malko Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Irkutsk National Research Technical University Downloads PDF (Русский) DOI: https://doi.org/10.51461/projectbaikal.68.1801 Keywords: architecture, urban studies, history of architecture, socialist city, garden city, Fordism Abstract The discussion between the followers of Howard’s garden city concept and supporters of the Fordian social city concept is considered on the basis of archival documents. The discussion took place in the 1920s and ended with the administrative suppression of one of the parties, which largely determined the ways of further development of the socialist urban planning. The article expresses the thesis that the opposing concepts were not antagonists at all. The development of architecture over the next hundred years has shown that both concepts are successfully developing, complementing each other. How to Cite Lidin, K., Meerovich, M., & Malko, A. (2021). The binary logic and the socialist city. Project Baikal, 18(68), 46–49. https://doi.org/10.51461/projectbaikal.68.1801 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Published 2021-08-08 Issue No. 68 (2021): socialist city Section refereed articles License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. References Howard, E. (1902). Garden Cities of To-Morrow. London: Faber and Faber. Grandin, G. (2010). Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City. NY: Picador. Lidin, K. Nature in the city: Romance and economy. Project Baikal, 13(49), 48-53. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.49.1049 Meerovich, M. G. (2008). SSSR kak Megaproekt. Chislovye regulyativy iskusstvennogo formirovaniya naseleniya socialist cities [The USSR as Megaproject. Numerical regulations of artificial formation of population of socialist cities]. http://archi.ru/lib/publications_virtual.html?-fl=5&sl=3 Meerovich, M. G. (2017). Gradostroitelnaya politika SSSR, 1917–1929: ot goroda-sada k vedomstvennomu rabochemu poselku [Urban planning policy of the USSR, 1917-1929: from a garden city to a departmental workers’settlement]. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. O poryadke sostavleniya, rassmotreniya i utverzhdeniya proektov planirovki gorodskikh poselenii i rabochikh, dachnykh, kurortnykh poselkov: Instruktsiya NKVD № 184 ot 28 maya 1928 g. [On the order of elaboration, consideration and approval of development plans for urban settlements and workers’, dacha and resort settlements: NKVD Guidelines № 184 as of May 28, 1928] (1928). In NKVD Bulletin № 21(276) (pp. 397–412). Shliosberg, I. A. (1923). Nuzhno li obshchestvo gorodov-sadov? [Is the society of garden cities necessary?]. Vlast Sovetov, 5, 59–62. Sovetskoe gradostroitelstvo. 1917–1941 [Soviet urban planning. 1917–1941] (2018). Moscow: Progress-Traditsiya.