Moscow Dachas: Will the Second Home Become the First?

A. G. Makhrova (), R. A. Babkin (), P. L. Kirillov () and E. E. Kazakov ()
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A. G. Makhrova: Moscow State University
R. A. Babkin: Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
P. L. Kirillov: Moscow State University
E. E. Kazakov: LLC NextGIS

Regional Research of Russia, 2021, vol. 11, issue 4, 555-568

Abstract: Abstract— The article presents the results of an analysis of the distribution and nature of the use of second suburban housing (second homes) in the Moscow capital region using an indicative approach based on data from mobile network operators. The research methodology included a multiscale analysis of fluctuations in the nighttime population in several marker time slices, which made it possible to indirectly estimate the usage scale of year-round and seasonal dacha housing. The dacha settlement system of the Moscow capital region forms an extensive and populous spatial structure. In addition to the classic summer residence format, dwellings that are periodically or permanently inhabited during the cold season are gaining in popularity, and the number of such summer residents, according to rough estimates, exceeds 1 mln people. The suburbanization pattern is characterized by pronounced belt-sector segmentation and can be represented as a dacha settlement model with four identified zones according to the mode of suburban housing use. The first, at a distance of 10 km from the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD), is characterized by the dominance of year-round dacha housing and represents focal inclusions of dacha settlements in a dense urbanized continuum. At a distance of 10–20 km, and to west and southwest up to 40 km from the MKAD, year-round dacha housing is widely encountered. Farther, in some places up to 60 km from the MKAD, dachas are used in a mixed summer–winter regime; past 60 km, seasonally inhabited dwellings dominate. In general, the impulsive rhythms show the blurring and interpenetration of boundaries between the city and countryside, as well as the formation of mosaic spatiotemporal residence patterns. At the same time, the gradual spread in the Moscow capital region of the year-round residence format by city dwellers in second homes, while maintaining housing in the city, serves as stark evidence of a generation of dacha innovations here, transforming both traditional Soviet and Western examples of dacha behavior.

Keywords: second home; dachas; seasonal suburbanization; mobile operator data; Moscow capital region (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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