Творческий потенциал контактных зон

Отечественные записки. 2012. Т. 48. № 3. С. 245–255.

Blair A. R.

Translator: Polishchuk N.

Through the example of the U Street block in Washington, D.C., the noted American urbanist shows that urban “contact zones” in which people disunited by racial, ethic, confessional and class conflicts are living side by side, serve as generators of new adaptive strategies. The inexhaustible source of viability and flexibility of these communities lies in the need for survival in the conditions of “deliberate social complexity”. It is precisely this experience that enables such communities effectively to adapt to the aftermaths of natural calamities and social conflicts. 

Keywords: урбанистика, urban studies, урбанизация, городское население, экономика города, городское развитие, American culture, contact zones, американская культура, контактные зоны, культура различных социальных и демографических слоев и групп, культура и различные сферы общественной практики, планировка и застройка городов и населенных мест, города и городские агломерации