Troshin A.
Abstract. The article suggests that in the 1960s and in the 1970s-80s the Soviet urban planning practice was based on the diverse models of the urban environment. These were not just different types of layout – these were different systems aimed to control human behavior. This difference is most noticeably marked by the change in small architectural forms.
Key words: Soviet architecture, modernism, hardscape, semiotics of culture.
Troshin Andrey Alekseevich,
Ph.D.,
D.Likhachev Russian Scientific Research Institute of Cultural
and Natural Heritage (Moscow),
e-mail: troshin_a@mtu-net.ru