ISJ Theoretical & Applied Science 02(130) 2024

Philadelphia, USA

Golubeva, O. A., Pushkareva, V. V., Blagorodov, A. A., Prokhorov, V. T., & Volkova, G. Yu.

On the importance of local transformation of urban regimes for comfortable living in the regions of the Russian AZ Russian Federation.

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Scientific Object Identifier: http://s-o-i.org/1.1/TAS-02-130-10

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15863/TAS.2024.02.130.10

Language: English

Citation: Golubeva, O. A., Pushkareva, V. V., Blagorodov, A. A., Prokhorov, V. T., & Volkova, G. Yu. (2024). On the importance of local transformation of urban regimes for comfortable living in the regions of the Russian AZ Russian Federation. ISJ Theoretical & Applied Science, 02 (130), 85-98. Soi: http://s-o-i.org/1.1/TAS-02-130-10 Doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.15863/TAS.2024.02.130.10

Pages: 85-98

Published: 28.02.2024

Abstract: In this article, the authors analyzed the principles and patterns of mutual influence of socially significant projects for transforming the urban environment and urban regimes in the Russian Federation. Clarence Stone's concept of urban regimes was used as a theoretical framework. Based on the author’s system of criteria of social significance, six projects for transforming the urban environment in four cities were selected and analyzed: Okhta Center and Tuchkov Buyan in St. Petersburg, Zaryadye Park and the development of fields belonging to the Timiryazev Academy in Moscow, a temple St. Catherine in Yekaterinburg and concreting the embankments of the river. Vologda in Vologda. If the initial phase of all projects took place in the realities of local urban growth regimes with the predominance of the interests of established coalitions of business and government, then the subsequent increase in the role of public activism in all projects and a change in goal setting under its influence led to the fact that during the implementation of projects there was a change in local urban regimes . It is shown that in five cases studied, during the implementation of projects, there was a transition of local urban regimes from “growth” to “progressive”, and in one - from “growth” to a greater extent towards the “status quo” regime. The general principles and patterns of mutual influence of socially significant transformation projects and urban regimes in the Russian Federation are identified and described: competitive public interaction of all types of actors; change or relocation of the project as a spatial method of resolving the conflict; the prevailing shift from realizing the interests of government and business to the benefit of society; involving paternalistic instruments as a way to achieve consensus. Such conditions for the mutual influence of socially significant projects and urban regimes can develop at a certain period in any large Russian city, then we can expect results of spatial transformation similar to those described. The results of the study clearly demonstrate the beginning of the process of local transformation of the dominant urban regimes in the Russian Federation.

Key words: urban regimes, urban political regimes, transformation of the urban environment, socially significant projects, use of urban space.