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They look like smaller neighborhoods with an eye towards treating them as a bloc when making decisions. So you wouldn’t run a highway through a microdistrict, since that would cut off social connections. You might have a transit light rail stop at the middle because that would maximize use of transit.
Basically, a small, mixed use development neighbourhood used by Soviet urban planners where the goal is that you would have everything or most things you need within walking distance. A microdistinct places apartments, offices, shops, and recreation areas close together, so as to easily be accessible. They almost always also feature excellent public transportation if you need to get somewhere further. It’s still one of the best ways of designing a city where walking, biking, etc is the dominant means of transport, instead of cars.
A video about Soviet urban planning: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JGVBv7svKLo
You can probably include most medium-sized Spanish cities in that list. Everything is densely built and close together. Though unfortunately there are way too many cars.
And that video has a really murican perspective, would be much more interesting to hear about it from a Russian.
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Great for residential and commercial segments but what about industrial and logistics warehousing? More importantly, transportation of workers to and from those areas to the residential ones. Cars would destroy the whole concept.
Basically every Soviet city had excellent public transit, which were either routed directly into these microdistricts or surrounded it on all sides.
