By Andrei Baburov, Georgi Djumenton, Alexei Gutnov, Zoya Kharitonova, Ilya Lezava & Stanislav Zadovskij

The Ideal Communist City comprises urban concepts by architects and planners at the University of Moscow written during the late 1950s and first published in a journal of a communist youth organization in 1960. The architects' collective imagines urban life "structured by freely chosen relationships represents the fullest, most well-rounded aspects of each human personality." The Ideal Communist City was first published in English in 1971 within the influential series on architecture and urban theory, the i press series on the human environment, initiated by Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas McNulty. This volume comprises a facsimile edition of the original title with a foreword by Ana Miljački, professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Edited by Ute Meta Bauer, Karin Oen, Pelin Tan, preface by Mary Otis Stevens.