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Dr. Sergey Zagraevsky
Where should we sail?
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Rather, "Where we sail"
was the title of an article by Lev Kolodny, published in the driven them
heading of "Moskovskiy Komsomolets", 28 December
But God is with him, with the title. I recall the plot of the article -
it (as in many other oral and written statements of Lev Kolodny) expressed joy
and optimism about the rapid construction in the center of
And photo attached to the article - dilapidated walls with crumbling
plaster. As such ugliness, he says, not to carry and not to build something
sverhprezentabelnoe, with clock security, security cameras and underground car
Park?
And yet, let's look at the situation calmly and efficiently, without the
fiery denunciations and violent emotions.
So, on the one hand - %
On the other hand - "adherents of conservation, fighting for every
historic building, for every tree in the center - and this, too, they are
absolutely right. Where is the truth?
In order to understand it, will have to start
from afar. Since the XIX century.
The fact that the rapid commercial construction
in
Not afraid to say that this was the first "battle for
The second "battle for
And hotel "
And stuck in the middle of
The next "battle" took place in 1960-70-ies. Needless to say
that "the adherents of the old" and lost it? For examples of the new
"false teeth" do not go far is the
What is left from
Not afraid to say - from
So will the historical
Do the rights of Lev Kolodny,
And can "adherents of conservation A.A. Klimenko, the A.I. Komech
and A.P. Kudryavtsev fighting for what is not? But supposedly intelligent
people who occupy a respectable position, and quite unlike the dreamers and
visionaries...
But jokes aside, then, of course, historical
And we are not in vain started a conversation with the ethical
inadmissibility "edit" Pushkin's lines. No need to be a scholar to
understand: it so happens that the loss of one letter makes the poem into
chaos. And similarly, we should not be arhitekturovedom understand any city -
the most complex organism, and historic, "Museum" component plays an
important role in it. Let us explain.
First of all, such a trivial thing as a tourist
attraction. Many of the city live -
and well it feels." It is well known that tourism enhances the credibility
of the country and brings revival of economic ties, in fact not one pensioners
come to gawk at the painting "Ivan the terrible kills his son," in
tours travel and businessmen, and many then arises a desire to invest in the
country, which they liked.
But the question is: will we, for example, tourists enjoy the bus or car
journey to
And if you reduce the business building in centre, stopping the
expansion of existing areas and adjusting the monuments not office, but under
the museums and mini-hotels? And if not evict Muscovites from
the center of a fuss, and to improve their living conditions? Do not
drop it at the same traffic load on the streets, avenues and alleyways, and
will not decrease if congestion?
That being closed one of the most complicated "vicious
circle", which we call the urban environment. These "circles" a
lot, even when not connected problems of ecology, power, water, heat supply,
sanitation, and other, not less prosaic things. And it turns out that the issue
of demolition, reconstruction or preservation of any historic building,
development of any empty%D
The Builder and urban planner - as
they say, two big differences. The Builder executes
orders, and town planner - a scientist - developing integrated approaches that
take into account all the problems of the territory, laying of sewage to the
frequency of visits by tourists.
And so when you read articles like
the one that was published in the "MK", it hurts. Not because of what
we Lev Kolodny appreciate the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the
reconstruction of the Manege square and sculpture Shemyakin with different
aesthetic positions (he likes, I don't like). In the end, it's a private matter.
Pain becomes due to the fact that the "powers that be" do not
understand that in the city of scale
And this approach, in turn, should
take into account all the political, macroeconomic, social and aesthetic trends
of our city. In the end, we need to understand what we want - that
To do this, take a little obschemoskovskie urban development plans based on the
approximate zoning districts and areas, as is done now. Necessary to attract
major Russian (and possibly the world), scientists, urban planners, the overall
prospects of development of Moscow and discussion with the public - even before
making the most serious is%8
Only then the age-old debate
"progressives" and "conservatives" will enter in a
constructive way, and the "battle for
2002.
© Sergey Zagraevsky
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