Directive Method in Soviet Urban Planning of 1930s
Directive method of city environment’s was a base of Soviet urban planning. It corresponded to ideology of the USSR. City plan made in Moscow and Leningrad for all the country and common rules in design permitted to form a complex approach to urban planning strategy. The article presents a history of GIPROGOR, a leading national institute of urbanity. The author analyses political, economical and social preconditions for a special kind of urban planning in the first part of the XXth century. She also made a conclusion about efficiency of the directive method in the Soviet urban planning.