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Moscow's urban form: a battleground for Russia's elites
speri, UK. 2016.
Buedenbender M., Zupan D.
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Gorodnichev A., Скребкова Е. В., Городские исследования и практики 2022 Т. 7 № 1 С. 85-105
Moscow, as one of the largest cities in Europe and the world, has come a long way from the capital of a communist state to a global capitalist city in the last 30 years. The post-socialist transition of the urban space continues, and the legacy of the urban planning policy of the Soviet past will ...
Added: March 29, 2022
Gunko M., Bogacheva P., Medvedev A. et al., , in : Housing Estates in Europe. Poverty, Ethnic Segregation and Policy Challenges. : Springer, 2018. Ch. 13. P. 289-311.
Since the 1950s, Moscow’s housing development has been underlined
by modernist planning schemes. From the 20th to 21st centuries, the quality and
appearance of apartment buildings changed, but housing estates designed as
coherent neighbourhoods not only remain the principal type of housing organization
but are still being constructed in Moscow and its suburbs. Though the concept
itself has not been ...
Added: September 8, 2019
Pavel P.Em, Ward P., Cities 2021 Vol. 108 P. 102950
Pyongyang is often used as a metonym for North Korea's leaders and the issues their policies create for the world. However, the profound internal changes rapidly transforming the city since the 1990s make Pyongyang a fascinating urban case study. This profile is an attempt to shed light on one of the most ‘mysterious’ cities in ...
Added: October 10, 2020
Golubchikov O., , in : A Research Agenda for Cities. : Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.
Added: October 11, 2017
Salukvadze J., Golubchikov O., Cities 2016 Vol. 52 P. 39-54
Tbilisi, a city of over a million, is the national capital of Georgia. Although little explored in urban studies, the city epitomizes a fascinating assemblage of processes that can illuminate the interplay of geopolitics, political choices, globalization discourses, histories, and urban contestations in shaping urban transformations. Tbilisi's strategic location in the South Caucasus, at the ...
Added: February 23, 2016
Dokhov R., Алов И. Н., Shubina D. et al., Городские исследования и практики 2020 Т. 5 № 4 С. 35-53
During the post-socialist period, most of the non-capital cities of the former socialist countries experienced stagnation or shrinking. However, some of them switched to rapid growth of both population and built-up territory. As a result, over 30 years of development under free market conditions, extensive suburban areas have formed. On the case of Makhachkala, we ...
Added: October 30, 2020
Zhelnina A. A., The Open Urban Studies Journal 2013 No. 6 P. 57-64
The article discusses the post-socialist developments of urban public space in St. Petersburg, Russia. The city with a historic center protected by the UNESCO World Heritage status in combination with the Soviet legacy of lack of public participation is facing the problem of public space development. There are two controversial concepts of urban space represented ...
Added: December 2, 2013
Golubchikov O., Eurasian Geography and Economics 2016 Vol. 57 No. 4-5 P. 607-623
This paper debates the relationships between transition and urbanization by problematizing the operation of transition on three inter-related levels. Firstly, at the level of ideology, it is important to rehearse the understanding of transition from that of merely area-based reforms and rather understand it as a totalizing project of planetary reach, which completes the subjugation ...
Added: December 5, 2016
Шляховая А. А., Dokhov R., Городские исследования и практики 2018 Т. 3 № 1 С. 40-62
Post-socialist cities need a tool to work with the morphological structure they inherited from the socialist era. The location of semi-peripheral micro-districts between the gentrified center and booming suburbs exacerbates the need for a new strategy for their development. In this article, we consider a soft technique for transforming existing micro-districts and creating Yardstreets — ...
Added: October 24, 2020