Russian cities 15 years after : Economy, population and urban sprawl in St. Petersburg, Russia
St. Petersburg, Saint-Pétersboug, Saint Petersburg, développement urbain, étalement urbain, économie, histoire urbaine, post-soviet city, ville post-soviétique, population, Maslennikov Nikita, Russia, Russie
<div>Nikita Maslennikov discusses the developments in Russian cities, particularly St. Petersburg, in the 15 years following the fall of the Soviet Union. He discusses such topics as the economy, population and urban sprawl, comparing St. Petersburg in 2008 to how it was conceived and how it developed over time.</div>
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<b>Nikita Maslennikov </b>is a Professor in the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg.</div>
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Nikita Maslennikov
5 September 2008
http://aap.cornell.edu/crp/resources/colloquia/index.cfm?semester=Fall%202008
Cultural diversity in Russian cities : The urban landscape in the Post-Soviet era
, mixité sociale, espace public, migrant, immigration, cosmopolitisme, identité, intégration, tissu urbain, lien social, espace résidentiel, sociologie urbaine, société urbaine, Russia, Russie, fragmentation sociale, Gdaniec Cordula
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Cultural diversity — the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture — is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with globalization. Even though it is often used as a slogan it does capture a widespread phenomenon that cities must contend with in dealing with their increasingly diverse populations. The contributors examine how Russian cities are responding and through case studies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Sochi explore the ways in which different cultures are inscribed into urban spaces, when and where they are present in public space, and where and how they carve out their private spaces. Through its unique exploration of the Russian example, this volume addresses the implications of the fragmented urban landscape on cultural practices and discourses, ethnicity, lifestyles and subcultures, and economic practices, and in doing so provides important insights applicable to a global context.</div>
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1. Cultural Diversity Between Staging and the Everyday – Experiences from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Other Russian Cities. An Introduction - Cordula Gdaniec <br />
2. Is Chinese Space “Chinese?” New Migrants in St. Petersburg - Megan Dixon <br />
3. Contructions of the “Other”: Racialization of Migrants in Moscow and Novosibirsk - Larisa Kosygina <br />
4. Reshaping Living Space: Concepts of Home Represented by Women Migrants Working in St.Petersburg - Olga Brednikova / Olga Tkach <br />
5. African Communities in Moscow and St. Petersburg: Inclusion and Exclusion to Social Life in Russia - Svetlana Boltovskaya <br />
6. The Construction of ‘Marginality’ and ‘Normality’ – In Search of a Collective Identity Among Youth Cultural Scenes in Sochi - Irina Kosterina / Ulia Andreeva <br />
7. “You Know What Kind of Place This is, Don’t You?” An Exploration of Lesbian Spaces In Moscow - Katja Sarajeva <br />
8. Begging as Economic Practice: Urban Niches in Central St. Petersburg - Maria Scattone</div>
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<b>Cordula Gdaniec</b> is currently an independent researcher. From 2003–2008, she was a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin.</div>
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Berghahn Books
May 2010
196
Ouvrage
The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900
, développement urbain, urbanisation, conflit urbain, histoire urbaine, société urbaine, migration urbaine, migrant, ségrégation sociale, Russia, Russie, Brower Daniel R., nineteenth century, dix-neuvième siècle, émeute
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The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on urbanization and cultural representations of the city, Brower constructs a synthetic view of the remaking of urban Russia. He argues that the reformed municipalities succeeded in creating an embryonic civil society among the urban elite but failed to fashion a unified, orderly city. By the end of the century, the cities confronted social disorder of a magnitude that resembled latent civil war. Drawing on a wide range of archival and published sources, including census materials and reports from municipal leaders and tsarist officials, Brower offers a new approach to the social history of Russia. The author emphasizes the impact of the massive influx of migrants on the country's urban centers, whose presence dominated the social landscape of the city. He outlines the array of practices by which the migrant laborers adapted to urban living and stresses the cultural barriers that isolated them from the well-to-do urban population. Brower suggests that future scholarship should pay particular attention to the duality between the sweeping visions of social progress of the elite and the unique practices of the urban workforce. This contradiction, he argues, offers a key explanation for the social instability of imperial Russia in the closing decades of the nineteenth century.</div>
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The late <b>Daniel R. Brower </b>was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Davis</div>
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Daniel R. Brower
University of California Press
1990
254
Ouvrage
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4m3nb2mm/