The Reconstruction of Moscow

- Central Savings Bank (project)

supposedly peculiar to a feudal city and that it contradicts the principles (!) of a socialist city. Proposals were made to replace the present system with a checker-board scheme, or a system whichu would cut up the city, and turn it into a city made up of indi- vidual settlements. Other proposals were for a city with a "comet" system breaking through the present circular city in some single (preferably northwesterly) direction; or for a Unear scheme; or for "a garden-city" lay-out, according to which Moscow should grow to the enormous dimensions of 200,000 hectares, and so on and so forth. AH these abstract plans, which were drawn up without regard for the heritage of history, reflected the bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideologies of their authors. The Right, reactionary 'wing of these planners sought- to' leave- old Moscow inviolate, just as it was when the nobles; mer- chants and priests, ruled it. These people Were opposed

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