Urban Environment and the Cultural Space of Megapolis: A Comparative Study of Social Barriers of Urban Development

Городская среда и культурное пространство мегаполиса: сравнительное исследование социальных барьеров городского развития

Puzanova, K. (Пузанова, К.) ()
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Puzanova, K. (Пузанова, К.): Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

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Abstract: The aim of the present work is to develop and implement approaches for assessing the quality of urban development and challenges of the modern metropolis. For this emphasis on the study of the current level of development of the cultural environment of modern urban Russian cities on an example of Moscow. Among the methods used: a quantitative analysis of the database, focus groups with students, processing and analysis of Big Data, obtained by downloading data from sites and Facebook TimePad. As a result of the distinctive characteristics of the subsystems identified urban infrastructure (social, consumer, leisure, transport, cultural), made comparisons among the administrative districts of Moscow. We describe the distribution and the relationship of different types of activity of Muscovites on weekdays and weekends, marked infrastructural opportunities and barriers to their implementation at the district and city level. Given the characteristics of the empirical content of the concept "favorite place", formed and systematized connotative number associated with facts, emotions and memories of the city. For example, favorite places described distribution of semantic load of urban space in Moscow. Revealed the relationship between the district and a favorite residence, place of employment activity. We describe the daily, weekly and annual cycles of organizing and conducting cultural events in Moscow. Shows the spatial distribution of events depending on the cycle time. A comparison of different information media (Facebook and TimePad) for the content and temporal specificity of the organization of cultural events. It describes the impact of the specificity of the information environment in the course of the weekly cycle of events.

Keywords: urban development; megapolis; favorite places (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 75 pages
Date: 2015-06
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