WursiIt's Stalinist to want walkable cities with fewer cars, apparently 🤦
bossitoAs it happens, Russian cities saw huge sprawl during the USSR, though probably mostly starting in the sixties. As is usual, the pre-revolution city centre is twisty and cozy, while around it are radiating straight avenues for kilometres. So sorta the opposite of what the headline says.
Straight avenue is not necessarily a bad thing though, if they’re high-density, walkable, full of services and green spaces, and interconnected with public transit, as they were.