Post-Soviet urban environment

The experience of St. Petersburg

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21218992
AutoresA A Anokhin (0000-0002-4850-5388, St Petersburg University), С С Лачининский (0000-0002-0885-6992, St Petersburg University, autor correspondente), S S Lachininskii, Д В Житин (0000-0002-3810-9138, St Petersburg University), D V Zhitin, Alexander V Shendrik (0000-0001-6202-5543, St Petersburg University), Н М Межевич (0000-0003-3513-2962, St Petersburg University, autor correspondente), N M Mezhevich, A I Krasnov, Anton Krasnov (0000-0002-8577-6080, St Petersburg University)
Ano2017
Volume7
Fascículo3
Páginas249-258
Data de publicação2017-07-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRegional Research of Russia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2079-9713 • E-ISSN: 2079-9705
EditoraPleiades Publishing Ltd (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1134/s2079970517030042
OpenAlexW2754189827
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas22

Cities form the backbone of human civilization, but only 600 of them become centers of world development. A special elite club consists of 183 world cities (according to Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) methodology), which represent the network substance of the globalized geoeconomic space. It is cities that lay down the global policy agenda, determine guidelines of economic management, and generate innovations and technological or consumer impulses. Intensive transformations take place in million-plus cities that affect the structure of the economy, urban space, and public realms. Most of these trends reflect processes that have affected most of the modern urbanized world. Study of the millionplus cities yields great opportunities for geographers. St. Petersburg, which is one of the world cities (gamma+), is experiencing a period of internal transformation within the paradigm change of economic development. Like other world cities, St. Petersburg has entered the postindustrial stage of development. This paper studies and interprets St. Petersburg’s main economic, territorial, and spatial transformation trends. In fact, the city is a testing ground for studying global urban trends in Russian practice. Particular attention is devoted to the remaining old post-Soviet features and the those of a new world city

Economic geography · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Geography · Political science · Regional science · Russian federation · St petersburg · Global Urban Networks and Dynamics · Urban Development and Cultural Heritage · Urbanization and City Planning