21st Century (2000–present)

Moscow My Street Program

2015– · Russia · Russia · Hygienist and infrastructural reform urbanism · Planned by City of Moscow
Functional street zoning diagram from Moscow's Street and Urban Public Space Design Standard used by the My Street programme: street-front, pedestrian, public service, green, transit, carriageway, parking and cycle zones.
Functional street zoning diagram from Moscow's Street and Urban Public Space Design Standard used by the My Street programme: street-front, pedestrian, public service, green, transit, carriageway, parking and cycle zones. · © KB Strelka / Strelka Magazine — used with credit · KB Strelka / Strelka Magazine — Moscow Street and Urban Public Space Design Standard (the standard applied under the My Street programme), via ArchDaily

Core idea

Citywide streetscape upgrade

Why it matters

Scaled transformation of public realm and mobility

Description

'Moya Ulitsa' (My Street), launched by the City of Moscow in 2015, was a citywide streetscape renovation programme covering hundreds of central streets and embankments. It widened pavements, buried overhead cables, planted trees, standardised street furniture and lighting, and curtailed on-street parking, drawing on design guidance from Strelka KB and international consultants. It was among the largest coordinated public-realm investments undertaken by any city in the period.

Significance

My Street showed that comprehensive public-realm transformation could be delivered at extraordinary speed and scale under a centralised municipal regime, and it visibly changed the character of central Moscow. It also sparked debate about beautification as depoliticised urbanism, the displacement of small commerce, and the use of Western placemaking vocabularies within an authoritarian governance context.

What shaped it

Sources

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