Kostyantyn MezentsevTaras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv · Department of Economic and Social Geography
Kostyantyn Mezentsev
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This article explores urbicide during Europe’s largest ongoing war of the 21st century. Urbicide in Ukraine is not just another story in a long list of well-covered destroyed cities; it has new manifestations and needs to be rethought. Despite the variety of forms and concepts associated with urbicide, it has some common features such as non-select...
The article addresses identity transformation in geopolitical fault-line city under a semi-frozen military conflict. Until 2014, the Donbas, a region in the eastern Ukraine, had a strong identity cultivated by the local industrial and financial groups. The Russian-backed military conflict induced rethinking of Donbas identity, giving a chance for r...
This paper aims to reveal and explain the role of metro stations in a post-socialist metropolis as nodes that determine the perception of the city. By means of Lynch-type mental maps, we sought to find whether metro stations really function as perceptual nodes concentrating urban functions and traffic, and how recent changes of urban built environm...
Purpose. The purpose of this research was to analyze the thematic orientation, drivers, location and perception by residents of street art in Ukrainian cities. Accordingly, the research questions are as follows: where and which street art pieces are located in cities? what are the main triggers of their spread in urban space? how city residents per...
The study of everyday practices, self-identities and perceptions seems to be a promising approach to understand the suburban spaces as not only static containers but socially constructed, dynamic and ambiguous entities. Our case study is represented by the suburban village of Ahronomichne, located in the peri-urban area of the second-order Ukrainia...
The emergence and intensive development of social networking services (social media) is one of the most unique phenomena of the 21st century. Social networking has become an integral part of everyday practices. The goal of the study was to identify spatial patterns and features of the functioning and development of social networking services, as we...
This paper aims to reveal and explain the spatial pattern of Facebook adoption in Western Ukraine. It discusses how to trace the fragmented nature of social networking services’ (SNS) penetration at the intra-regional level using Facebook data analysis. This study has confirmed the expectation that in Western Ukraine Facebook adoption is predominan...
Despite being one of the most influential paradigms of urban studies, the stages of urban development model have been criticised for inability to describe and explain the urban evolution in specific economic, social and political conditions. In particular this refers to the post-socialist world. This paper presents the study of migration patterns i...
Water (or water system) can be a trigger, weapon, or casualty of conflict. In Ukraine, water conflicts occur during the war in the Donbas. The purpose of the study is to assess the impact of the war in the Donbas on the number of water conflicts, their types and how they affect the state of water supply to the population in the region during 2014-2...
The purpose of the study is to assess the uneven development of commercial suburbanization of Kyiv. The paper sets two research objectives - to develop a methodology for estimating the scale of commercial suburbanization in the absence / unavailability of official statistics and to analyze the dynamics of the spread of commercial suburbanization ar...
Migration intentions of young people are related to the youth labour market situation, incomes, investment attractiveness and innovations. Such economic factors, in turn, determine the situation on regional labour markets. Labour and educational migration of young people threaten to lose the working-age high-skilled population, and therefore a furt...
The article presents the conceptualization of suburban space changes through the prism of changing everyday practices and its verification based on cases in the suburban areas of Kyiv and Vinnytsia. Given task is problematic both theoretically and empirically, as the suburban space is not only a physical residence place of the inhabitants, but also...
Some of the literature on newbuild gentrification (NBG) suggests that residents of neighborhoods exposed to NBG gradually become alienated from their surroundings because it erodes the sense of place, producing, as one influential scholar noted, "colonized and unfamiliar" environments. The degree to which such feelings prevail relates to the extent...
Authors are witnesses and direct participants of changes in many cities in post-Soviet countries, but also had the opportunity to compare the nature of these changes with cities from other regions, to assess the strength and weakness of the civil society role in city life. Understanding post-Soviet cities is not fully formed and is usually based on...
During the last decade studies of cities in Ukraine are characterized by greater skewness toward descriptiveness, loss of relation with the key theories and concepts that explain urban development in general and in conditions of post-socialist transformations in particular. Experience of urban researches of many post-socialist countries shows the g...
Most of the economic and demographic trends in Central and East Europe are typical of Ukraine. The ensuing new socio-spatial polarization is typical as well, but it has its own peculiarities throughout Ukraine. The gaps between various regions and various kinds of settlements (in rural areas, small towns and urban regions) in terms of economic, dem...
Despite the new geopolitical situation caused by the revolution at Maidan in February
2014, little is known about the real economics of Ukraine and its internal spatial disparities.
In the survey of regional disparities, data on incomes, employment and unemployment
were involved and completed by those on migration and age structure of the populatio...
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This project explores urban policy issues in Ukraine's "geopolitical fault-line cities," focusing on policy areas that are most exposed to the country's geopolitical and foreign policy choices. There are two main goals. Using the examples of five south-east Ukrainian case study cities, the scientific goal is to advance the concept of the geopolitical fault-line city and to contribute to the knowledge on conflict in divided or polarized cities. The main policy-related goal is to explore the urban social and identity policy challenges confronting southeastern Ukrainian geopolitical fault-line cities.
Primary theoretical objective: Building on a detailed analysis of the southeastern Ukrainian urban context, the overarching goal is to theorize the "geopolitical fault-line city".
Primary policy-related objective: To detail the urban social and identity policy challenges, including disinformation, confronting Ukrainian cities in order to support critical related policy decisions.
Secondary (subordinate) objectives:
1. To examine the political and economic forces that have formed the social geography of cities in southeastern Ukraine, and how they influence the (Donbas-related) conflict dynamics today.
2. To examine the urban context of disinformation, and to help identify effective strategies to counter such disinformation.
3. To examine the characteristics and effectiveness of internal displacement policies at the urban level.
4. To examine how urban identities articulate themselves in the built environment and among the residents of Ukraine’s geopolitical fault-line cities.
to develop models of modernization of different urban areas in Ukraine according to the perspective tasks of spatial planning
