The Population’s Living Space and Settlement Patterns as the Factors and Conditions of Modernization in Russia

O.B. Gleyzer (yalog@rambler.ru) and E.I. Vainberg (emmav1911@yandex.ru)

Journal "Region: Economics and Sociology", 2013, vol. 3

Abstract: The paper analyzes the features of the Russian socio-geographic space connected with a current settlement pattern. We can conclude that Russian network of settlements proved to be non-homogeneous, and to be more precisely, there is a lack of cities; an urban skeleton does not cover all the territory of the country; the settlement patterns have shaped on rather limited territories mostly of local levels; and such settlement patterns do not unite the socio-geographic space. The key trends are the domination of conglomerated settlement patterns, polarization, and shrunk social space. We prove that the features of the socio-geographic space in Russia, in contrast to the key territorial features of a non-correctable nature, could be corrected, and therefore, this could become a goal of further spatial modernization of the country.

Keywords: socio-geographic space; urban skeleton; settlement network; urban and rural social environment; conditions for Russian modernization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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