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Khimki in Moscow City-region: From ‘Closed City’ to ‘Edge City’?
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Golubchikov O., Phelps N., Makhrova A.
Many concepts in social sciences sooner or later face ‘trial by geography’ — a consideration of their applicability beyond specific places and contexts, thus allowing these concepts to be either adjusted or rethought. The interest of this chapter is, then, to bring the analysis of post-suburbia from the Western economies into the former ‘Second World’ and to consider to what extent the ideas of ‘edge city’ (Garreau, 1991), ‘post-suburbia’ (Kling et al, 1995) and associated models of urban growth may apply for the latter. To this end we consider urban development and place-making on the periphery of Moscow. The analysis here is particularly based on the case of Khimki — a former Soviet off-limits ‘satellite city’ of Moscow and more recently a fast-growing area featuring many new retail, office and housing development projects right at Moscow’s edge.
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Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Tripathi S., Kabra S., Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 2026 Vol. 19 P. 1–24
Cities become more productive and enjoyable places to live with improved transportation management. However, most cities in developing countries still lack it. In this context, the present study examines the relationship between the different types of vehicles (measured by passenger and freight vehicles) and urbanization (measured by city population size and density) in India. We ...
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Obukhov K., Власова Т. А., , in: Development of Urban Culture.: DALI-BB, Banská Bystrica, v spolupráci s Filozofickou fakultou UMB v Banskej Bystrici, 2021. P. 215–226.
The main topic of the article is the analysis of the contradictions of the local identity changes in Izhevsk. The empirical basis for this research consists of the interviews with the experts of different professions and a survey with a combined online and face-to-face strategy. According to data, it is possible to identify three ways ...
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Khestanov R., Suvalko A., Городские исследования и практики 2022 Т. 7 № 1 С. 7–21
This article focuses on the widespread but vague concept of the smart city. The smart city is a visionary projection, around which are an eclectic ensemble of often contradictory theoretical attitudes and doctrines that link urban development with the devel- opment of technology, especially digital technology. We argue that the work of the British cyberneticist ...
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Shubina D., Baranova L., Шохина А. А., Городские исследования и практики 2020 Т. 5 № 1 С. 102–116
Urban shrinkage is a common problem for the Russian Arctic region where the urbanization which occurred at the beginning of the 20th century was aimed at the strategic development of this region. Since the 1990s, arctic cities in Russia have experienced population decline due to the transition from the planned to the market economy. Apatity, ...
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Schlaufer C., Gafurova D., Zhiryakova E. et al., Policy Studies Journal 2021 P. 1–22
The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) explains the role of narratives in policy processes. The NPF was developed for democratic contexts and has not been systematically applied in a nondemocratic setting. This study fills this gap with an empirical analysis of narrative strategies used by governmental and oppositional actors in urban policy debates in Moscow. Results ...
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Golubchikov O., Geneva: United Nations, 2020.
Cities possess massive resources, talent and creativity and serve as hubs for knowledge sharing, experimentation and innovation, generating new ideas, embedding these solutions locally and scaling-up successful practices. Cities, however, are not abstract sustainability-making machines; they are places where real people live, work, study and flourish. Cities are made of people, by people and for people. Sustainable ...
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Springer, 2018.
This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally had access to residential space in housing estates? What is the size, scale and geography of housing estates, their architectural and built environment composition, services and neighbourhood amenities, and ...
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Ilina I. N., Plisetskiy E., , in: Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (2018).: Cham: Springer, 2018. P. 1–4.
A course of action adopted and pursued by government, business, or some other organization, which seeks to improve or develop cities or towns through land use planning, water resource management, central city development, policing and criminal justice, or pollution control. ...
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Boykova M. V., Ilina I. N., Salazkin M., Foresight and STI Governance 2016 Vol. 10 No. 3 P. 65–75
In light of the increasingly complex socio-economic processes and changes, today’s cities as complex systems will not be able to respond to numerous challenges unless they possess a governance model that can flexibly adjust to shifting external conditions. In this regard, there is growing demand for innovative management tools combining solutions from different fields. The ...
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Ravetz J., Miles I. D., Foresight 2016 Vol. 18 No. 5 P. 469–490
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This paper aims to review the challenges of urban foresight via an analytical method: apply this to the city demonstrations on the UK Foresight Future of Cities: and explore the implications for ways forward.
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The methodology is based on the principles of co-evolutionary complex systems, a newly developed toolkit of “synergistic mapping and design”, and its ...
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Boykova M. V., Ilina I. N., Salazkin M., Форсайт 2016 Т. 10 № 3 С. 65–75
In light of the increasingly complex socio-economic processes and changes, today’s cities as complex systems will not be able to respond to numerous challenges unless they possess a governance model that can flexibly adjust to shifting external conditions. In this regard, there is growing demand for innovative management tools combining solutions from different fields. The ...
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Golubchikov O., Geneva: United Nations Economic Comission for Europe, 2011.
With about two thirds of the UNECE population living in urban areas, this is where the region's social, intellectual and economic life is concentrated. This study provides an overview of the importance of cities for energy reduction, climate protection and climate adaptation. It discusses the actions that cities in the UNECE region need to undertake ...
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Golubchikov O., Environment and Planning A (Великобритания) 2010 Vol. 42 No. 3 P. 626–643
Whilst St Petersburg is not usually considered as a command-and-control centre in the organisation of global capitalism—a key characterisation of world cities to some proponents—I reveal how Russian political elites have been inspired by a world-city vision for St Petersburg and have begun pursuing specific spatial strategies to accommodate this vision. In order to explain ...
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Golubchikov O., Phelps N., Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (Великобритания) 2011 Vol. 36 No. 3 P. 425–440
What economic and policy conditions and power relations govern the transformation of the metropolitan periphery in post-socialist nations and to what extent do these converge on those observed in similar locations in the United States and Western Europe? Drawing on original empirical research conducted on location, we consider the case of the rapidly growing city ...
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Guseva A., В кн.: Вопросы всеобщей истории архитектурыВып. 4: Личность, эпоха, стиль.: М.: ЛЕНАНД, 2012. С. 297–329.
Japan experienced intensive process of industrialization and urbanization
following during the first half of the Twentieth century. These processes were accompanied by a transformation of the Japanese society and lifestyle patterns expressed in domestic architecture and planning ideas. The Meiji Restoration of 1868 brought a dichotomy of traditional patterns, which were considered as “pre-modern” to western-style ...
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