ePub Mary Poppins Songbook: The New Musical by Hal Leonard Corporation in Arts-Photography

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Preservation is ordinarily reserved for architecture that is unique. So how would we go about preserving buildings that are utterly generic? Such is the case with Belyayevo; an ordinary residential district in Moscow. Belyayevo is a classic microrayon; the standardised neighbourhood system that successive Soviet regimes laid out across the USSR in what was the most expansive programme of industrialised construction the world has ever seen. Belyayevos buildings; and the desolate spaces between them; are identical to thousands of others; but is it different? Kuba Snopek argues that is. Home to many of the artists of the Moscow Conceptualism school; the place was written into the character of their art. Snopek argues that this intangible heritage is the key to saving a neighbourhood many feel has had its day. But as Russia comes to terms with its Soviet legacy; will such arguments fall on deaf ears?