>Stores that did not produce unnecessary waste were standard practice. It's such a strange thing to say when this wasn't really done by conscious choice. There

>Stores that did not produce unnecessary waste were standard practice. It's such a strange thing to say when this wasn't really done by conscious choice. There were shortages of everything, and though it wasn't 'abject poverty', the society as a whole was poor. You couldn't afford to be wasteful. >Another thing they got right was urban planning. The gray concrete jungle and complete disregard for maintaining existing infrastructure is a great example of urban planning? Anyway, you're giving them too much credit. Like you said further down, people didn't have cars and gas was expensive - that by itself will make cities that are walkable and traversable by public transit. Western Europe also had walkable cities and great public transit and didn't need the Soviet-system to create it.