Current Trends in Moscow Settlement Pattern Development: A Multiscale Approach
https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2019-69
Abstract
The article studies current trends in Moscow population in context of socio- economic polarization strengthening between the capital city and other regions of the country. The study applies multiscale approach covering Moscow influence on Central Russia and other regions, interaction with the Moscow oblast and the level of internal population distribution within Moscow and particular settlements and villages in New Moscow territories. The gap in development is significantly noticeable for expanding Moscow and Moscow oblast against the background of depopulation in Central Russia regions and cities. Within the boundaries of Moscow the continuing model of extensive spatial growth of population has led to the most rapid growth of its periphery zone. Areas similar to bedroom communities in Old Moscow are forming in the municipalities of New Moscow located along the Moscow ring road (MKAD) and main radial highways, while large part of the new territories remain a typical countryside with villages and summer residents. Analysis of New Moscow suburban areas reveals the actual land use mosaics obscured by the official delimitation of Moscow and Moscow oblast and the formal division of population into urban and rural.
About the Authors
Pavel L. Kirillov
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow, 119991
Russian Federation
Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow, 119991
Alla G. Makhrova
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow, 119991
Russian Federation
Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow, 119991
Tatiana G. Nefedova
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Staromonetniy pereulok 29, Moscow, 119017
Russian Federation
Staromonetniy pereulok 29, Moscow, 119017
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Review
Supporting agencies: Within the framework of this paper, sections 2 and 5 were written by T.G. Nefedova under the project of the Russian Science Foundation of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences no. 19-17-00174 “Early Developed Regions under Socio-Economic Polarization and Shrinkage of the Active Areas in European Russia”. Sections 4 was written by A.G. Makhrova under the project supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, no. 17-06-00396 “Social and Natural–Ecological Factors of the Urbanization/Deurbanization Process in Modern Russia (Interdisciplinary Macro- and Microanalysis).”
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Kirillov P.L., Makhrova A.G., Nefedova T.G. Current Trends in Moscow Settlement Pattern Development: A Multiscale Approach. GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY. 2019;12(4):6-23. https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2019-69
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