Drawing land
Nemiga Street and one century of urban development in Minsk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21500429 |
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| Authors | Dasha Kuletskaya (0000-0003-1218-3548, RWTH Aachen University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-25 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Planning Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-5433 • E-ISSN: 1466-4518 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02665433.2025.2591088 |
| OpenAlex | W4416959399 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper employs analytical drawing to trace a century of urban development along Nemiga – one of the oldest streets in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Through a series of maps depicting changes in the area from the 1910s to 2024, it traces the transformation of a traditional Jewish neighbourhood into what was supposed to become the most ambitious modernist urban development in Minsk. Reconstructing this transformation against the backdrop of major geopolitical shifts, this paper shows how land parcellation, built fabric and property regime are mutually constitutive. It makes two contributions to the historiography of planning. First, it adds to the largely underexplored planning history of Minsk, arguably one of Europe’s least researched capital cities. Second, it presents a methodological advancement: by extracting and redrawing data from diverse archival sources within a series of maps, it visually reconstructs a hundred years of urban transformation of the area. I argue that this approach offers a valuable tool for historiography planning, especially in contexts in which the availability of archival data is limited
Place identity · Urban density · Urban design · Urban geography · Urban history · Urban planning · Urbanism · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition · Urbanization and City Planning
| Highly cited | No |
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