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Prefabricated panel constructions quickly and efficiently provided new homes for expanding city populations after World War II. In the late 1950s, ‘One flat per family’ became, by decree, a priority for Nikita Khrushchev.

The ‘sleeping districts’ are homes to the vast majority of Muscovites and the monumental cityscapes they form are beyond striking.

A photographic insight into the socialist-era architecture of the former Eastern Bloc and its concrete suburbs.

Viewing Edinburgh’s post-war redevelopment area from the air, one block stands out for its striking shape: Cables Wynd House, aka the ‘Banana Flats’.

Like other Soviet-era monotowns (or Моногород), Norilsk was designed around a single industry in a remote part of the Soviet Union.

The mix of postwar buildings in Great Britain is splendidly diverse: social housing and educational buildings built for an expanding welfare state, but also speculative projects designed and built to maximise profit.