Soviet-style micro-districs aren't that great. Its just modernist ideas done cheaply. Soviet-style certainly is better then US style suberbia but its not actua

Soviet-style micro-districs aren't that great. Its just modernist ideas done cheaply. Soviet-style certainly is better then US style suberbia but its not actually good compared to real urbanism. What you actually want is not a bunch of identical blocks spaced far apart. You want proper streets with connected blocks with commercial in the lower floors to frame a real urban feeling. That has many advantages. You can still provide real public parks and open spaces in such a structure (see Oslo for example). There is a reason tons of tourist go to places that are beautiful urbanism and almost nobody goes even to the best Soviet microdistrics to look at them. And nicer building wouldn't change that. > Western individualism doesn't really play with that collectivist setup though, everyone needs their own private building, their own private micro park, etc. And yet somehow the capitalist west has built amazing cities and towns for 100s of years. And places like the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark are very much on the forefront of modern example of these things.