There is and there will be territorial reformatting of rural spaces

Происходит и будет происходить территориальное переформатирование сельских пространств

Pokrovsky, Nikita (Покровский, Никита) () and Nikulin, Alexander (Никулин, Александр) ()
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Pokrovsky, Nikita (Покровский, Никита): National Research University Higher School of Economics
Nikulin, Alexander (Никулин, Александр): Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Russian Peasant Studies, 2023, vol. 8, 140-158

Abstract: In the interview, Professor N. E. Pokrovsky describes his scientific path related to the issues of rural-urban development. Based on his experience as originally a city dweller, Pokrovsky considers how and why city-dwellers move to the countryside with their projects and plans to change the rural reality; identifies the life trajectories of different social strata of city dwellers in their rural searches; focuses on the essential characteristics of rural changes in recent decades, including those identified on the basis of his long-term observations in the Ugorsk rural development project in the Kostroma Region. As a sociologist-Americanist, Pokrovsky refers to the American roots of the rural lifestyle — ideas of T. Jefferson and H. Thoreau — and to his personal impressions of rural regions of the United States. Pokrovsky also mentions the spatial rethinking of rural-urban development as related, on the one hand, to the criticism of life in large cities, and, on the other hand, to the new economic-technological, culturalhistorical and recreational-environmental practices in rural areas. In conclusion, he considers the possibility of a new mapping of rural spaces in order to assess the development of local territories.

Keywords: city; village; suburbanization; deurbanization/counterurbanization; migration; dachas; ecology; Henry Thoreau; Ugor project (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2023-8-2-140-158

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