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FORMATION OF THE CITY: FROM INTERESTED COMMUNICATION TO POLITICAL READING AND DEVELOPMENT

https://doi.org/10.18384/2224-0209-2023-4-1368

Abstract

Aim. To identify the mechanisms of city formation as a political and administrative unit by considering the practices of interested communication, as well as political interpretation and development of urban space and its resources.

Methodology. The main content of the study is an analysis of approaches to assessing the formation of municipal space in the context of the political self-organization of local communities (functional, cross-functional aspects) and the organization of their living environment.

Results. In the course of the study, the peculiarities of the space organization of modern cities were identified, related to the political practices of interested communication, symbolic definition and actual transformation of space by individual and collective subjects of communities.

Research implications. The results of the research represent the author’s contribution to the development of the theory of community self-organization and political urbanism, they can be used in municipal and regional political campaigns.

About the Author

Ilya A. Khabarov
Derzhavin Tambov State University
Russian Federation

Cand. Sci. (Political Sciences), Director of the Center for Relations with Public Institutions, Department for Strategic Communications



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