Issue |
SHS Web of Conferences
Volume 28, 2016
RPTSS 2015 – International Conference on Research Paradigms Transformation in Social Sciences 2015
|
|
---|---|---|
Article Number | 01002 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20162801002 | |
Published online | 15 June 2016 |
Social and economic well-being in the conditions of the urban space: the evolution of methodological approaches in the historical urban studies
1 National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Lenin Avenue, 30, Tomsk 634050, Russia
2 National Research Tomsk State University Lenin Avenue, 36, Tomsk 634050, Russia
a Corresponding author: agilalex@mail.ru
A city as a type of a human settlement is characterized by high population density, welldeveloped infrastructure, comfortable living conditions. However, a city is a source of social problems due to high population density, limited resources and conflicts between indigenous population and newcomers. The article analyzes the development of research about the city, provides an assessment of the scope of the historical urban studies in the development of solutions to contemporary problems of urban space. Methodological resource of historical urban studies allows fully exploring the city as a set of historically interconnected spaces and social processes. The analysis of the problem field of historical urban studies at various stages of its formation allowed tracing the evolution of ideas about the city as an object of scientific knowledge, to identify future prospects of research on conditions of Russian urban development, to improve the comfort of living in them.
© Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2016
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.