Moscow agglomeration and “New Moscow”: The capital city-region case of Russia’s urbanization

Махрова, А. Г.; Nefedova, Tatyana; Трейвиш, А.И.

doi:10.1134/s2079970513020081

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“…In the literature, long-distance commuting is often defined as a door-to-door journey to employment location which takes at least 40 minutes (Cassel et al, 2013;Sandow and Westin, 2010;Sandow, 2011). Given the distances and the underdeveloped transport infrastructures in Russia, ordinary daily journeys-towork within metropolitan regions, where daily commuting is most common, take around 1-2 hours (Makhrova, Nefedova, Treivish, 2013). Therefore, a high proportion of commuters in Russia are long-distance commuters if classified by European standards.…”

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Coping with employment issues through commuting: Evidence from Central Russia

Gunko

Nefedova

2017

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Commuting to work has become a widespread practice over the last several decades. Some relatively strong employment issues in rural Russian municipalities, as well as a significant wage gap between them and the major cities, fosters daily commuting as well as commuting with long periods of time spent at employment locations, known in Russia as otkhodnichestvo. Based on official statistical data and our own surveys conducted in Tula and Kostroma regions, we analysed the spatial differentiations between the share of commuters in the employed population of rural municipalities, as well as the variations in individual socio-economic characteristics between rural commuters and non-commuters, in general, and between the commuters themselves. Our analysis of the latter characteristics suggests that there is in fact more difference between the rural commuters and non-commuters in Russia than between daily commuters and those engaged in otkhodnichestvo, indicating similar motives and, perhaps, even personalities of commuters. Giving the identified differences, commuting on a larger scale does not seem to be a universal tool to cope with employment issues, as some population groups are more likely to engage in it than others.

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Section: Conceptualising Commutingmentioning

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Coping with employment issues through commuting: Evidence from Central Russia

Gunko

Nefedova

2017

Moravian Geographical Reports

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“…Some works draw on concepts like growth machines (Golubchikov and Phelps ) or post‐politics (Makarychev and Yatsyk ) to discuss recent developments. Others offer empirically rich studies, for example of the rise of upscale housing supply (Medvedkov and Medvedkov ) or urbanisation dynamics in Moscow (Makhrova et al ), without embedding them in theoretically informed debates. Another group of scholars explicitly highlights different phases in the evolution of post‐socialist cities, primarily by tracing the successive fading of socialist legacies, rather than conceptualising how these legacies have become functional constituents of various forms of neoliberal urbanisation (see Borén and Gentile ; Sýkora and Bouzarovski ; Trumbull ; for a critique of this perspective, see Golubchikov et al ).…”

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The Evolution of Neoliberal Urbanism in Moscow, 1992-2015

Büdenbender

Зупан²

2016

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This article examines the urban development of Moscow from 1992 to 2015, arguing that the city's recent transformation from grey asphalt jungle to a "city comfortable for life" is driven by a process of neoliberal restructuring. In particular, the study finds that a set of multi-scalar dynamics-namely, the global financial crisis, the rise of a local protest movement, and an intensified rivalry between federal and Muscovite elites-were the key driving forces behind Moscow's current evolution. The work advances a conceptual framework of neoliberal urbanisation that enhances the literature on post-socialist cities and, more generally, the broader debate on actually existing neoliberalism.

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“…Another explanation refers to the varying building types. In the late Soviet period, when Moscow was rapidly expanding, the peripheral districts were built up with large multi-storeyed buildings, which resulted in formation of the densely populated sleeping quarters (Makhrova et al, 2013). The urban economy of Moscow has adapted quite quickly to the new market conditions, Vendina (1997, p. 350) argues: "already in the late Soviet times it embarked on a road of postindustrial development, when prerequisites were created for restructuring the economy, especially through a more active growth of foreign economic, finance and credit, trade and mediation activity.…”

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“…The empirical evidence is drawn from Moscow, the largest and one of the most migration attractive capital cities of the post-socialist / post-soviet space (Makhrova, Nefedova, & Treivish, 2013). With a notable stability Moscow has been gaining roughly one million people each decade in the 20-th century (Denissenko & Stepanova, 2013) despite the social shocks 1 and persistent struggle of authorities to inhibit the process (Hausladen, 1985).…”

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Spatial variation of in-migration to Moscow: Testing the effect of housing market

Kashnitsky

Gunko

2016

Cities

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The collapse of state socialism and the introduction of market relationships in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in profound changes of urban development. Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe indicates that the development of a strong housing market and growing material inequalities contribute to the socio-economic polarization of city districts and residential segregation. Based on empirical data, we analyze spatial variation of migrants' first residential choices within Moscow, i.e. intensity of in-migration to a specific district. We test the theory-driven hypotheses about the association between residential choices and housing prices. Our results show that there are some areas that attract migrants of specific socio-economic status. However, housing prices do not explain a substantial share of variance in the intensities of in-migration, at least at the level of city districts; quite a strong association is only evident for foreign migrants. Thus, we find limited evidence of the Moscow' socio-spatial structure polarization due to the residential choices of migrants.

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Moscow agglomeration and “New Moscow”: The capital city-region case of Russia’s urbanization

Cited by 22 publications

References 6 publications

Coping with employment issues through commuting: Evidence from Central Russia

Coping with employment issues through commuting: Evidence from Central Russia

The Evolution of Neoliberal Urbanism in Moscow, 1992-2015

Spatial variation of in-migration to Moscow: Testing the effect of housing market

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