Robert Rudolph’s research while affiliated with Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and other places

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Moscow: Processes of restructuring in the post-Soviet metropolitan periphery
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April 2005

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During the 20th century, Moscow changed from being a one million person city in Russia to the largest European urban agglomeration. The growth and urbanization processes were particularly strong during the Soviet period. At the beginning of the 1990s, new forms of political and economic regulation were established, which were accompanied by new spatial structures. Moscow and its periphery were subjected to new tendencies of spatial differentiation and polarization. The paper analyzes the new post-Soviet developments in the periphery of the Moscow metropolitan area.


Figure 1: Moscow's performance according to selected economic and socio-economic indicators compared to the Russian average (share of population: 5.8%)                               Source: Goskomstat Rossii (1999a)
Figure 2: Percentage employed in the tertiary sector in London, Paris, Madrid, Berlin and Moscow in the early 1990s (Moscow, 1998)                               Source: Burdack et al. (2001)
Figure 3: Population and international standard office space in Moscow, London, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Hamburg and Budapest in 2000. The population figure for Paris refers to the entire greater Paris region (Paris and the three départements of ‘petite couronne’). The office space figure for London refers to the ‘City of London’ only                               Source: Burdack et al. (2001); Jones Lang LaSalle (2000a)
Table 3 Urban regions of European significance
Figure 4: Number of the 500 leading global companies (using turnover figures) in Moscow, London, Paris, Madrid, Zürich, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Cologne-Bonn and Hamburg                               Source: Fortune Magazine (2000; cited according to http://www.fortune.com/fortune/global500);  Vandermotten et al. (1999)
Moscow, the global city? The position of the Russian capital within the European system of metropolitan areas
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March 2004

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During the 1990s, the city of Moscow was subject to an extraordinary transformation in its political, economic and social structures, which had consequences for the position of Moscow within the national and international hierarchy of cities. This article is concerned with the trends that can be discerned regarding the position of Moscow on the national and European scales. Without a doubt, the development of Moscow is characterized by an increasing separation from the national urban system and a growing international orientation. The Russian capital has no competitors on the national level: measured against the relevant economic indicators it is a long way ahead of the remaining Russian cities, which are primarily integrated into national and regional economic flows, and participate in the global economy only to a limited degree. Moscow, in contrast, is increasingly striving to integrate itself into transnational and international economic structures. Although the concept of Moscow as a global city is often instrumentalized in municipal politics, the ability of the Russian capital to act as a global centre is in fact limited. At present Moscow's most important function, from a Central European perspective, is to act as a bridging link between Central and Western Europe and Russia. There is a danger that the spatial disparities between Moscow on the one hand, and the remaining Russian cities and regions on the other, will continue to grow.

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Moscow's Periphery: Transformation and Global Integration

September 2003

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During the 1990s, the city of Moscow and the Moscow region experienced a marked process of spatial differentiation and polarization. In the city centre and the neighbouring districts, there came into existence an internationally oriented business infrastructure, new office space, and commercial streets, together with areas devoted to the sale of expensive consumer goods. Outside this privileged space was an urban periphery characterized by various forms of decline. At some points, however, small businesses also established themselves here. Only since gradual economic consolidation began at the end of the 1990s has it been possible to observe the development of large-scale retail outlets and leisure facilities, such that Moscow's outskirts are coming to resemble the peripheries of large cities elsewhere in the world.



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... Finally, general structural analyses were undertaken on intra-urban development, and also on changes at the fringe of urban areas and on the loss of importance of models which the socialist city had had up to then [Stadelbauer 1994]. In a larger context, special research papers studied urban systems under the influence of transition and globalization [Brade & Rudolph 2001;Stadelbauer 2005Stadelbauer , 2006. ...

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FIFTEEN YEARS OF TRANSITION AND RESEARCH ON TRANSITION: PROCESSES, PERCEPTIONS, ANALYSES 1
Global city Moskau?
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  • September 2001

... In recent years, the logic of neoliberalization in big Russian cities has been fostered by the need to integrate in global economy and thus enter into stiff domestic and international competition of cities for foreign investment and tourist flows, and receive some policy favors from federal and regional governments (see, e. g., [4, p. 43]). As a result, the economic systems of such cities have grown increasingly capitalized, and their imagesincreasingly and artificially aestheticized [5]. The administrations and big businesses encourage cultural consumption and play up cultural and sports mega-events. ...

Moscow, the global city? The position of the Russian capital within the European system of metropolitan areas

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... Rinkos ekonomika sąlygojo erdvių transformacijas pačiame mieste ir ėmė skatinti miesto sklaidą į priemiesčius. Priemiesčiai augo itin sparčiai, o juose atsirado kapitalistiniams miestams būdingos naujos statybos formos -privatūs nuosavi namai Rudolph, Brade, 2005;Nuissl, Rink, 2005;Boentje, Blinnikov, 2007;Pichler-Milanovic ir kt., 2008;Leetmaa ir kt., 2009;Ubarevičienė ir kt., 2010Ubarevičienė ir kt., -2011. Suirus Sovietų Sąjungai ir perėjus į rinkos ekonomikos sistemą, vis aiškiau stebima socialinė stratifikacija, visų pirma dėl augančių gyventojų pajamų skirtumų. ...

Moscow: Processes of restructuring in the post-Soviet metropolitan periphery
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