Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism

The privatization process has created a huge number of homeowners in Russia due to the transition to a market economy. Some experts in Russia agree that a huge number of homeowners distinguishes Russia from the Western experience and saves Russian cities from the process of gentrification. However, there is a State Program of Resettlement of the Emergency Housing Stock. The goal of the program is to reduce the number of emergency houses. If the house is declared an emergency, the government can withdraw it for public needs. According to this process, the government must pay householders for their homes and offer new ones within the city boarders. As a rule, a huge number of emergency houses are located in the city center, which is also a place of concentration of cultural heritage sites. After relocation, the objects must be reconstructed or demolished. In addition, there are a lot of cases of civil protests against demolitions of valuable historical buildings for the realization of that program. That is why our research focused on the implementation of this program to objects of historical heritage. On the one hand householders have security obligations of objects of heritage, on the other hand the government can confiscate them if the objects are threatened with loss. From this side the implementation program is an instrument of confiscation of heritage objects for saving them. But in real practice we found that the government does nothing after resettlement. And that inaction leads to the slow destruction of objects. In our research based on experience of four Russian cities we investigate how resettlement programs are implemented jointly with heritage programs. In spite of the importance of social aspects, we do not consider them in our research. However, we show the problem, that for sustainable development of city centers the government has to find approaches for better management of heritage objects, search for investments and work with householders instead of resettle them.

The article is a review of the research presented at the Fifth International Symposium On Development And Governance In The BRICS, primarily concerned with various administrative reforms carried in the BRICS as well as Central and Eastern Europe and oriented at improving governance and government performance. The studies reviewed have investigated such topics as: public administration in the post-COVID-19 world; public administration in relation to international project management; management of crisis, security and risks in public administration; assessment of the results of public administration reforms; and digitalization and provision of public services.

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.  

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.