Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Not a City Yet, not a City Anymore: the Internal Suburbanization and the Evolution of Non-Urban Spaces of a Siberian City

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2022 15 (2)
Authors
Grigorichev, Konstantin V.; Elokhina, Yulia V.
Contact information
Grigorichev, Konstantin V.: Irkutsk State University Irkutsk, Russian Federation; ; Elokhina, Yulia V.: Irkutsk State University Russian Federation, Irkutsk
Keywords
post-soviet city; «private housing sector»; suburbanism; global East
Abstract

The article considers the evolution of specific spaces of the Soviet and post-Soviet cities of Siberia and the Russian Far East, defined as the «private housing sector». Based on interviews and observations in the regional centres of Siberia and the Russian Far East, the authors show that in the Soviet city, the «private housing sector» is a locality where the architectural landscape, everyday practices, and the organization of communities are weakly associated with urbanism. This exclusion was consolidated by the system for placing urban infrastructure, which can be traced according to the data of urban GIS. At the same time, the specifics of cities enlargement in the Soviet period led to the close integration of such localities into the urban space. The evolution of the «private housing sector» in the post-Soviet period did not lead to the inclusion of such localities in the practices of urbanism. On the contrary, they develop predominantly along with the inner suburb model, reproducing non-urban architecture and everyday practices. Nevertheless, such localities continue to remain an integral part of the post-Soviet city, determining the eclecticism of its physical and social space. This lets us suggest that the organic inclusion of non-urban localities and communities in the urban space can serve as one of the key reasons for highlighting the «Global East» model of the city

Pages
169–178
DOI
10.17516/1997-1370-0897
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/145352

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