Abstract
The purpose of this article is to show the specifics of the formation of cultural landscapes and geo-cultural images of Northern and Arctic cities within the concept of post-urbanism. The ontological and phenomenological category of cold, crucial for understanding of this specificity, has a decisive influence on the formation of both material and expressive (mental) environments and identities of the inhabitants of the Northern cities. Cultural landscapes of cold represent an ambivalent anthropological phenomenon. This phenomenon captures the com-plex integrity of the unique geo-cultural imagery, spatial representations, and a system of adaptation patterns to low temperatures, and their consequences. The rise and fall of the Northern and Arctic cities, in conjunction with history of development of particular countries and regions, show the fragility of their cultural landscapes, whose representations may reflect the stages of decline, ruining or long-term conservation of residential areas, adminis-trative and industrial buildings, technological and public infrastructure. Geo-cultural images of the Northern and Arctic cities are genetically linked to the increased mobility of their founders and inhabitants. The same Northern city can «produce» many differentiated images of cold, due to its geo-cultural patchiness. The image of cold can be considered as an important component of the symbolic asset of the Northern and Arctic cities, as well as a field of implementation and struggle of various post-colonial practices. Cold as an autonomous ontology and cul-tural landscape of the Northern city can be a phenomenological basis for the dynamic post-urbanism of the Northern and Arctic territories. The phenomenon of co-spatiality, fundamental for understanding the post-urban trends of social development, acquires a special configuration in the cultural landscapes of the Northern cities, contributing to the enrichment of the semantic space of post-urbanism in general. In the future, geo-cultural and cultural-landscape studies of the Northern and Arctic cities may become some of the most important sources for accelerated development of new ontologies of mobile settlement systems.
Highlights
Онтология холода и специфика гуманитарно-географических исследований северных и арктических городов Холод ― вне всякого сомнения, ощущение и чувство, имеющее глубокие онтологические основания
Человеческие сообщества, их структуры, формы, функции, внутренние и внешние взаимодействия развивались во многом в борьбе с холодом и его производными ― особенно в умеренных и циркумполярных климатических зонах и природных поясах, а также в районах с резким континентальным климатом
Geo-cultural and cultural-landscape studies of the Northern and Arctic cities may become some of the most important sources for accelerated development of new ontologies of mobile settlement systems
Summary
Онтология холода и специфика гуманитарно-географических исследований северных и арктических городов Холод ― вне всякого сомнения, ощущение и чувство, имеющее глубокие онтологические основания. Феноменологические основы структуризации культурного ландшафта северных и арктических городов Культурный ландшафт северного или арктического города, исследуемый типологически, представляет собой обобщенное единство, целостность геокультурных образов холода, снега и льда, ветра, редкой растительности, доминирования темного времени суток большую часть года, затрудненных транспортных коммуникаций и общения, специфических архитектурных и планировочных решений, направленных на борьбу с экстремальными природными условиями.
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