construction allowed for a high speed development of new areas for the new “mikrorayon” model – urban form typology, combining housing, schools, kindergartens, RUSSIAN URBAN CONTEXT service and medical facilities inside the plot.
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Federal Service for Land Cadastre of Russia states that the area of built-up land in the country grew from 30 to 54 thousand sq. km in 1990-1999. This means that the rate of territorial expansion of the built environment during that decade alone is comparable with that of previous hundreds of years of Russian history. [Golubchikov O.,
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