Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism

Publications

• Book

  Gershman M., Gokhberg L., Ivanova E. et al.

  The Innovation Competitiveness of BRICS Countries

  The book is devoted to the assessment of innovation competitiveness of BRICS countries. It covers different aspects of science, technology and innovation in BRICS including status of STI in each country, the intra-BRICS collaboration in the field of STI, prospects of collaboration with BRICS+ countries, as well as a special chapter covering innovation development of BRICS in ICT.  The book presents chapters authored by leading experts in STI policy and analysis from BRICS countries. The key questions addressed in the book cover peculiarities of national innovation systems of BRICS countries, their science, technology and innovation policies.

  Springer, 2025.

• Article

  Borushkina S., Gorodnichev A.

  Spatial governance under polycrisis: Reconfiguring agglomeration policy

  Agglomeration policy has long been a dominant paradigm in spatial development, premised on the assumption that large, integrated city-regions drive national economic growth through productivity, innovation, and global integration. This paper examines how this paradigm is reworked under conditions of polycrisis, a durable state in which economic, geopolitical, and institutional shocks interact and reinforce one another. We argue that, while a crisis is often addressed through recalibrating policy tools and objectives, polycrisis reshapes the underlying rationalities of spatial planning. Focusing on Russia, the study analyses how national spatial priorities shift from growth and competitiveness toward territorial stabilisation, population retention, and the management of systemic vulnerability. It compares the 2019 and 2024 Spatial Development Strategies, drawing on policy documents, implementation materials, and expert discussions, and applies a process-tracing approach to reconstruct changes across two planning cycles. The findings show that agglomeration policy is not a universally stable development model but a contingent framework dependent on growth, openness, and functional integration. As these conditions erode under polycrisis, agglomeration policy is reworked from a governance technology of growth into a mechanism of territorial anchoring and control, signalling a broader shift from development to stabilisation in spatial planning.

  Cities. 2026. Vol. 179. No. 12.

• Book chapter

  Morozova A., Monahhova E., Gorodnicheva Y. et al.

  Time-Frequency Representations in response to true and fake news: Pilot study

  In bk.: 2025 Seventh International Conference Neurotechnologies and Neurointerfaces (CNN). IEEE, 2025. P. 78-82.

• 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.