Russian Mega-Cities: Current Structural-Functional Trends. Official Portal of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2019. P. 1-10. URL: http: ...

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The article analyzes the current trends and issues of the Russian mega-cities, and their relationships with a close and remote periphery. These cities simultaneously are concentrating a huge productive, scientific, political and cultural potential and worsening in their close and remote periphery. The use of information technologies and networks accelerate the development of the mega-cities whereas their periphery lags behind. The appearance of the mega-city is changing very slowly, while a functional organization of these cities is changing permanently. The further the more the majority of the mega-cities population considers them as a start-up for their carrier or as a jumping-off place for an emigration. A habitat structure of the above cities is changing as well: the estates of the rich are planned to situate in the central parts of the mega-cities while the majority of the poor is gradually will be resettled to their periphery. The estates of the rich will have their own gardens whereas for the rest the parks of a common use are planned. In sum, the residents of the mega-cities are socially and spatially disconnected, and it’s under double pressure: their life permanently accelerated and diversified.