City-making -- Two transitions -- Malyi kozikhinskii case study -- City defenders vs. Luzhkov's machine -- City-builders vs. city-defenders in the first decade of the new century -- Accommodation of purposes -- "Leave us in peace!" -- Conclusion: Moscow citizens in a changing context
Summary
Moscow under Construction explores the growth of place-based opposition to destructive redevelopment practices in Moscow and the consequent changes in city's governance regime. The groups of citizens discussed in this study have struggled to defend homes, neighborhoods, heritage buildings, and historic districts, and in the process they've built up civil society and advanced democratization. Heritage preservationists and other aggrieved Muscovites have organized themselves into "initiative groups" and "social associations" to protect specific places in the city and to influence the planning process, and these place-defenders have become more confident and capable as citizens. Their activities also have caused Moscow's city government to shift along the political spectrum away from highly authoritarian and opaque habits of ruling toward a more open and collaborative governance regime
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2016)
