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Everyday Utopia and Radical Imagination with Kristen Ghodsee

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The Importance of the Built Environment

The Soviets decided partially because they were building cities from scratch, but also because they were more liberal in their desire to like erase the old world and try to build the new one. They really took this idea of building a socialist city and what I really want to call a proto 15 minute city. All over the world you have these heirs to the micro district, which is a self contained community where you have all these residential living blocks usually built around a very large green space. These projects were realized in relatively economically poorer countries.

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