‘New Metropolis’ As a Foundation for Contemporary Russian Urban Culture

R Yu Porozov

doi:10.18502/keg.v3i8.3621

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We propose the concept of ‘new metropolis’. We consider among such cities mostly administrative centers of the Russian Federation constituents, with the population that had exceeded one million either in late Soviet period or during the recent years
Apart from the formal quantitative population markers, the cities of this type possess the common sociocultural features: major industry continues to play an important role in the structure of the ‘new metropolis’ economy and to influence its sociocultural life; there is a self-sufficient urban mentality; and an attempt to realize in practice the concept of a so called 24-hour city
The new metropolis is a certain type of urban space in Russia characterized by the following features: 1. formal: a population of at least one million reached either during the last Soviet decade, or during the recent history of the new Russia

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The similarities between sociocultural and economic characteristics of the cities that will potentially become the centers of agglomerations, means that we need a new term for such cities. We propose the concept of ‘new metropolis’ We consider among such cities mostly administrative centers of the Russian Federation constituents, with the population that had exceeded one million either in late Soviet period or during the recent years. Among these ‘new metropolises’ are such cities as: Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Samara, Rostov-on-Don and others

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