Mikrorayan (Mikrorayon), Afghanistan, Asia
Year 1960 latitude: 34° 31' longitude: 69° 12' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization None Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization None Inhabitants Target population Town website Town related links http://www.kabul-reconstructions.net/index.php?id=173 http://subbotnik.a.tu-berlin.de/kabul/projekt/pdfs/tafel-kabul.pdf http://www.archnet.org/library/images/thumbnails.jsp?location_id=14907 Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
In the sixties Russian concrete companies and planning agencies developed the large satellite town of Mikrorayan east of Kabul. Its high rise slabs are placed in a geometric order that has nothing to do with either the topographic features of the terrain or with the Afghani traditions in architecture and town planning. However, their anonymous, monotonous character has lent a certain class of Kabul people the possibilty of escaping the suffocating social control of the traditional urban tissue of the old city. Mikrorayan is also one of the parts in a huge mosaic of foreign imports of urban models that seem to have nothing to do with each other. source: Wouter
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