Peut-on estimer la singularité des villes (post-)soviétiques ?

Clémentine Cottineau

Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine, 2017, vol. Janvier, issue 1, 5-32

Abstract: Although the urbanisation of the Former Soviet Union is a unique experience, this article questions the possibility of estimating the share of the generic processes of urban growth, spatial location and economic specialisation, the share of the particular processes of urbanisation linked to the size and political organisation of the country, and the share of the singular processes that cannot be explained without a local knowledge of the events which happened in the cities under study. Using several types of models at different scales, we identify the residual as the element that ?resists modelling? and illustrates the singular evolutions of the Soviet Union and its cities. To do so, we built a harmonised urban database and fitted hierarchical, spatial and regression models. We conclude that city size inequality increased in a generic manner compared to other systems of cities, that the spatial distribution of cities resemble that of vast countries (especially with the increased reliance on sub-surface resources), and that there exists a set of singular urban trajectories.

Keywords: cities; models; singularity; Soviet Union; urbanisation; Cet article est issu de la thèse de Doctorat en Géographie « L'évolution des villes dans l'espace post-soviétique. Observation et modélisations »; de l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; qui a obtenu le Prix Aydalot 2015; décerné par l'ASRDLF à la meilleure thèse francophone en Sciences Régionales (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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