Publications

  • HSE Global Cities Innovation Index: 2024

    HSE Global Cities Innovation Index (HSE GCII 2024) has been developed by the Russian Cluster Observatory of the National Research University Higher School of Economics Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge. It presents a measurement tool to evaluate the competitive edge of cities in terms of their attractiveness for the innovation economy leaders in technological development and creative industries.

    The study covers over 1,000 agglomerations from 144 countries, where at least one of 27,925 leaders of the innovation economy is present – top enterprises (mega corporations, disruptive startups, and leading universities) and exceptional individuals (Nobel Prize laureates, highly cited researchers, popular designers, architects, artists, musicians, filmmakers, and developers).  The ranking is based on a unique system of 90 indicators calculated with the use of recognized international data sources (excluding expert estimates, surveys, and administrative data) that were grouped into three key blocks: Technological Development, Creative Industries, and Urban Environment. To affirm the reliability of the used data sources, a special statistical audit was conducted.

    The report presents the ranking scores and examines key factors of attracting the world’s most successful representatives of the innovation economy to cities. It also discloses the ranking algorithm and provides detailed methodological comments. The publication includes 50 city profiles with the full information about their scores, benchmarking against the leader, and technological specializations.

    The publication will be of practical interest to a wide range of readers, including technology entrepreneurs and researchers, artists and representatives of creative industries, urban governance practitioners, and professionals involved in the development of specific innovation economy sectors.

    M.: ISSEK HSE, 2024.

  • Article

    Natalia A. Zevakhina, Kseniya N. Dongarova, Shubina D. et al.

    Over-specification of small, borderline cardinalities and color in referential communication: The role of visual context, modifier position, and consistency

    This paper reports on two flash-mode experiments that test redundant descriptions of small (2–4) cardinalities, borderline (5–8) cardinalities, and color in referential communication. It provides further support for the idea that small cardinalities are more salient (due to subitizing), less sensitive to visual context, and therefore give rise to higher over-specification rates than color. Because of greater salience, Russian speakers more often use prenominal positions for numerals than for color adjectives. The paper also investigates borderline cardinalities and argues for the order factor that affects their salience, since ordered items can be perceived in small subitized parts. The ordered mode of presentation of the borderline cardinalities leads to higher over-specification rates and to higher percentages of prenominal positions than the unordered one. The paper provides further evidence for the consistency of small, borderline cardinalities, and color in people’s choices to minimally specify or over-specify given objects in referential communication.

    Frontiers in Psychology. 2024. Vol. 15.

  • Book chapter

    Nadezhda Zamyatina.

    Development cycles of cities in the Siberian North

    This chapter describes the development cycles of cities in the Siberian North. These cycles are typically connected to the boom-and-bust cycles in associated natural resource development. I discuss the oil and gas cities of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug “Ugra,” the Yamal peninsula, the Yenisei North (Igarka, Dudinka), and Dickson on the northern sea route. Using ethnographic interviews, I analyze the characteristics of different phases of development and changes in the social sphere and the mood of citizens across these phases and geographic areas. I discuss on the peculiarities of urban development in Siberia based on different resource exploitation histories and the possibilities of moving to a post-raw material stage of development in the Siberian North.  

    In bk.: The Siberian World. Routledge, 2023. Ch. 24. P. 352-363.

  • Working paper

    Muleev Y. Y.

    EXPLORING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN PARKING OCCUPANCY RATE AT RESIDENTIAL ESTATES AND SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS. THE CASE OF YEKATERINBURG

    Financial losses due to low demand for parking spaces in garages at residential estates is a key motivation for this research. The purpose of this paper in particular is to statistically explore the relationship between parking occupancy rates and various factors on transport supply, characteristics of location and the building. The occupancy rate of parking was measured as the ratio of actual number of cars to total number of parking spaces. The fieldwork on counting occupied parking spaces was conducted 2 times per day during a week on a sample of 13 locations in different areas of a 1.4-million Yekaterinburg city in Russia. 4700 observed parking spaces give sample size of 173 records. Statistical analysis shows that the crow-fly distance to the city center as well as the number of public transport stops are strongly associated with occupancy rate for parking. Also, occupancy rate is much more affected by the type of parking ownership. Private owning means purchase of a parking space or renting it while public ownership suggests free access. So private parking means a 45% decline in occupancy compared to the public parking regime. Research provides empirical results and some theoretical underpinnings are also highlighted.

    Urban and Transportation Studies. URB. НИУ ВШЭ, 2020. No. 9.

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About the School

Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism (GSU) is a learning and research division of the Faculty of Urban and Regional Development of HSE University. Founded in 2011, the School takes a multidisciplinary approach towards studying and planning modern cities, using the excellent foundation that one of Russia’s top universities has formed in the humanities and socioeconomics. The School’s mission is to create a centre in Russia for learning and research in urban studies and urban planning. It is envisioned that this centre will respond to the needs of the 21st century city and the corresponding era of megacities that are home to tens of millions of people with diverse interests and aspirations.

School in Figures

  • 175+ 

    enrolled students every year

  • 150+ 

    experts in various fields of urban development

  • 20+ 

    partnerships with international and Russian organizations and universities

  • 70+ 

    lecturers

  • 350+ 

    graduates

  • 10+ 

    expeditions to Russian regions

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