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Постурбанизм и холод: геокультурные образы и репрезентации культурных ландшафтов северных и арктических городов
The purpose of this article is to show the specifics of the formation of cultural landscapes and geo-cultural
images of Northern and Arctic cities within the concept of post-urbanism. The ontological and phenomenological
category of cold, crucial for understanding of this specificity, has a decisive influence on the formation of both
material and expressive (mental) environments and identities of the inhabitants of the Northern cities. Cultural
landscapes of cold represent an ambivalent anthropological phenomenon. This phenomenon captures the complex
integrity of the unique geo-cultural imagery, spatial representations, and a system of adaptation patterns to
low temperatures, and their consequences. The rise and fall of the Northern and Arctic cities, in conjunction with
history of development of particular countries and regions, show the fragility of their cultural landscapes, whose
representations may reflect the stages of decline, ruining or long-term conservation of residential areas, administrative
and industrial buildings, technological and public infrastructure. Geo-cultural images of the Northern and
Arctic cities are genetically linked to the increased mobility of their founders and inhabitants. The same Northern
city can «produce» many differentiated images of cold, due to its geo-cultural patchiness. The image of cold can
be considered as an important component of the symbolic asset of the Northern and Arctic cities, as well as a
field of implementation and struggle of various post-colonial practices. Cold as an autonomous ontology and cultural
landscape of the Northern city can be a phenomenological basis for the dynamic post-urbanism of the
Northern and Arctic territories. The phenomenon of co-spatiality, fundamental for understanding the post-urban
trends of social development, acquires a special configuration in the cultural landscapes of the Northern cities,
contributing to the enrichment of the semantic space of post-urbanism in general. In the future, geo-cultural and
cultural-landscape studies of the Northern and Arctic cities may become some of the most important sources for
accelerated development of new ontologies of mobile settlement systems.