Vladimir Paperny’s Architecture in the Time of Stalin contains the following wonderful analogy. Paperny uses it to describe the kind of ideal “horizontal society” imagined in the late 1920s in the Soviet Union in which all goods and population are uniformly distributed. Russian Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov wrote of the possible evolution of mass communication and transportation and housing. He described a world in … Continue reading 1930: De-urbanism