Impact of Soviet worker residential area design on Beijing No. 2 textile factory: Research of worker residential planning during the First Five‐Year Plan

Abstract

Abstract This paper aims to examine the contents of professional architectural books on worker residential areas in the Soviet Union, analyzing proposals based on the Northeast China's experience during the First Five‐Year Plan. Despite sharing a common source for residential design, differences in regional and situational conditions result in diversity between China and the Soviet Union. By considering the plan for worker residential areas in Beijing and analyzing the case of the planned Beijing No. 2 textile factory in 1953, it can be concluded that China had already developed original residential planning ideas and methods during that period.

Keywords

• Beijing No. 2 textile factory
• First Five‐Year Plan
• Soviet Union
• Soviet worker residential area design
• workers' village