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“Bridges” and “Gaps” on Maps of Multicultural Cities: The Story of the South Russian Agglomeration

“Bridges” and “Gaps” on Maps of Multicultural Cities: The Story of the South Russian Agglomeration

Oxana Karnaukhova
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781522517443|ISBN10: 1522517448|EISBN13: 9781522517450
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1744-3.ch007
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Karnaukhova, Oxana. "“Bridges” and “Gaps” on Maps of Multicultural Cities: The Story of the South Russian Agglomeration." Cultural Influences on Architecture, edited by Gülşah Koç, et al., IGI Global, 2017, pp. 181-199. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1744-3.ch007

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Karnaukhova, O. (2017). “Bridges” and “Gaps” on Maps of Multicultural Cities: The Story of the South Russian Agglomeration. In G. Koç, M. Claes, & B. Christiansen (Eds.), Cultural Influences on Architecture (pp. 181-199). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1744-3.ch007

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Karnaukhova, Oxana. "“Bridges” and “Gaps” on Maps of Multicultural Cities: The Story of the South Russian Agglomeration." In Cultural Influences on Architecture, edited by Gülşah Koç, Marie-Therese Claes, and Bryan Christiansen, 181-199. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1744-3.ch007

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Abstract

The city is a sum of feasible expressions of social and historical evolution and space identity. The uniqueness of a place is formed not only by contemporary infrastructure, but by the cultural environment deeply anchored in the historical context. The object of the study is the South Russian agglomeration as a feasible example of ragged edges of multicultural history of the region and constantly challenged collective identity. Multicultural cities in Russia carry a burden of the pre-Soviet and Soviet urban policy, weighed down by complex historical environment. As a result, cities are closed in a coterie: reliance on Soviet and post-Soviet legacy – conservative economic policy –– fragmentary and spontaneous development of the city architecture and infrastructure. The term of splintering urbanism coined by Steven Graham and Simon Marvin is focused on the historical circumstances and socio-cultural environment of urban communities in the South Russian agglomeration, describing symbolic forms of bridges and gaps in the collective urban identity.

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