Khrushchevka
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Khrushchevkas are a type of low-cost, concrete-paneled or brick three- to five-storied apartment buildings which were designed and constructed in the Soviet Union from the early 1960s onwards, when th
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1-464 [ru] is one of the most common series of large-panel "Khrushchyovkas". In the photo, modification 1-464A built in 1965 in Gatchina
Panel khrushchevka in Tomsk
A typical masonry kommunalka
Residential workers' barracks
Danchi
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Danchi is the Japanese word for a large cluster of apartment buildings or houses of a particular style and design, typically built as public housing by government authorities. Older danchi are sometim
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…awareness of monotonous construction, Krokodil openly mocked Khrushchyovkas, and some plays depicted characters lost in identical-looking districts. Danchi, a similar Japanese low-cost housing Urban planning in communist countries…
Takashimadaira Danchi in Itabashi, Tokyo
School being demolished in Tama New Town, Tokyo, due to declining enrollment
Danchi buildings built in the 1960s (right), situated across a street from modern apartment blocks built in the 2000s (left)
Early danchi interior photographed in 1992. Negative issues with early danchi have led to the term falling out of favor.