Moscow on the rise: From primate city to megaregion

Geographical Review

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 20-36

  Argenbright, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Megaregion; Moscow; New Moscow; Primate city; Russia

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL CITY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MEGACITY; URBAN GROWTH;

MOSCOW [MOSCOW (ADS)]; MOSCOW [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84872834952     PISSN: 00167428     EISSN: 19310846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2013.00184.x     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Albrechts, L. 2011. Strategic Planning and Regional Governance in Europe: Recent Trends and Policy Responses. In Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions: An International Comparative Perspective, edited by J. Xu and A. G. O. Yeh, 75-97. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge.
2. Anna.Aero. 2012. 2012 European Airport Traffic Trends. [http://www.anna.aero/european-airport-traffic-trends/#].
3. Argenbright, R. 2008. Avtomobilshchina: Driven to the Brink in Moscow. Urban Geography 29 (7): 683-704.
4. Argenbright, R. 2011. New Moscow: An Exploratory Assessment. Eurasian Geography and Economics 52 (6): 857-875.
5. Berishvili, N. 2012. Andrei Sharonov: "Ya Prishel na etu Dolzhnost' ne Vstretit' Pensiiu i ne Schitaiu ee Podarkom Sudby" (Andrei Sharonov: "I Did Not Take This Position to Receive a Pension and I Do Not Think It Is a Gift of Fate"). Moskovskie Novosti, 29 February. [mn.ru/big_moscow/20120229/312443871.html].
6. Blinnikov, M. S. 2010. A Geography of Russia and Its Neighbors. New York: Guilford Press.
7. Bocharova, S. 2011. "Pylesos po Imeni Moskva Zarabotaet Eshche Sil'nee": Ekspert Kritikuet Reshenie o Rasshirenii Moskvy ("The Vacuum Cleaner Named Moscow Will Take in [Money] Even More Powerfully": An Expert Critiques the Decision about the Expansion of Moscow). Gazeta.ru, 12 July. [http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2011/07/12_a_3693005.shtml].
8. Bradshaw, M., and J. Prendergrast 2005. The Russian Heartland Revisited: An Assessment of Russia's Transformation. Eurasian Geography and Economics 46 (2): 83-122.
9. Castells, M. 1996. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol. 1, The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell.
10. Colton, T. J. 1995. Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press.
11. EMR [Echo of Moscow Radio]. 2011. Intervyu (Interview). Ekho Moskvy Radio (Echo of Moscow Radio), 17 June. [http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/beseda/785266-echo.phtml].
12. Florida, R., T. Gulden, and C. Mellander 2008. The Rise of the Mega-Region. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 1 (3): 459-476.
13. Gazeta.ru. 2012a. Izbrannyi Gubernatorom Shoigu: Zhiteli Podmoskov'ya, Rabotaiushchie v Moskve, Dolzhny Platit' Nalogi v Oblasti (Shoigu, Who's Been Picked as Governor: Residents of Moscow Oblast Who Work in Moscow Should Pay Taxes to the Oblast). Gazeta.ru, 7 April. [http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/news/2012/04/07/n_2281577.shtml].
14. Gazeta.ru. 2012b. Moskva Stala Chetvertoi v Reitinge Gorodov s Samymi Dorogimi Ofisami, na Pervom Meste-Gonkong (Moscow Has Reached Fourth in the Ranking of Cities with the Most Expensive Offices, Hong Kong Is in First Place). Gazeta.ru, 13 March. [http://www.gazeta.ru/news/business/2012/03/13/n_2241165.shtml].
15. Gritsai, O. 2004. Global Business Services in Moscow: Patterns of Involvement. Urban Studies 41 (10): 2001-2024.
16. Gritsai, O., and H. van der Wusten 2000. Moscow and St. Petersburg, a Sequence of Capitals, a Tale of Two Cities. Geojournal 51 (1 & 2): 33-45.
17. Hall, P. 1977. The World Cities. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
18. Hall, P. 2009. Looking Backward, Looking Forward: The City Region of the Mid-21st Century. Regional Studies 43 (6): 803-817.
19. Heaney, D., ed. 2009. The Territories of the Russian Federation 2008. 9th ed. London: Routledge.
20. Henderson, V. 2002. Urban Primacy, External Costs, and Quality of Life. Resource and Energy Economics 24 (1 & 2): 95-106.
21. Hill, F., and C. Gaddy 2003. The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
22. Hoffmann, D. L. 1994. Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-1941. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
23. Hooson, D. J. M. 1962. A New Soviet Heartland? Geographical Journal 128 (1): 19-29.
24. Hooson, D. J. M. 1964. A New Soviet Heartland? Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand.
25. Hooson, D. J. M. 1966. The Soviet Union: People and Regions. Belmont, Calif: Wadsworth Publishing.
26. IBM. 2011. IBM Global Commuter Pain Survey: Traffic Congestion Down, Pain Way Up. [http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35359.wss].
27. Ioffe, G., and Zh. Zayonchkovskaya 2011. Spatial Shifts in the Population of Moscow Region. Eurasian Geography and Economics 52 (4): 543-566.
28. Ioffe, G., T. Nefedova, and I. Zaslavsky 2004. From Spatial Continuity to Fragmentation: The Case of Russian Farming. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94 (4): 913-943.
29. James, P. E. 1959. Latin America. 3rd ed. New York: Odyssey Press.
30. Jefferson, M. 1939. The Law of the Primate City. Geographical Review 29 (2): 226-232.
31. Johnston, R. J. 1994. Primate City, Law of the. In The Dictionary of Human Geography, 3rd ed. rev. and updated, edited by R. J. Johnston, D. Gregory, and D. M. Smith, 473. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell.
32. Keeling, D. J. 1995. Transport and the World City Paradigm. In World Cities in a World System, edited by P. L. Knox and P. J. Taylor, 115-131. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
33. Kirillov, P. A., and A. G. Makhrova 2009. Suburbanizatsiya v Moskovskom Stolichnom Regione: Sovremennoe i Perspektivnoe Sostoyanie (Suburbanization in the Moscow Capital Region: The Current and Prospective Situation). Regional'nie Issledovaniya (Regional Studies) 25 (4 & 5): 42-54.
34. Kolosov, V. 2011. Udavka dlya Moskvy (A Noose for Moscow). Ezhednevnyi Zhurnal (Daily Journal), 2 August. [http://www.ej.ru/?a-note&id-11218].
35. Kolossov, V., and J. O'Loughlin 2004. How Moscow Is Becoming a Capitalist Mega-City. International Social Science Journal 56 (181): 413-427.
36. Kolossov, V., O. Vendina, and J. O'Loughlin 2002. Moscow as an Emergent World City: International Links, Business Developments, and the Entrepreneurial City. Eurasian Geography and Economics 43 (3): 170-196.
37. Kvasha, M., and N. Petrova 2011. Moskva bez Moskvichei (Moscow without Muscovites). Kommersant Dengi (The Businessman Money) 25 (832): 13-15.
38. Levchenko, A. 2009. Chinovniki Peregruzili Rossiyu (Bureaucrats Have Overloaded Russia). Gazeta.ru, 19 March. [http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2009/03/19_a_2960575.shtml].
39. Mackinder, H. J. 1969. The Geographical Pivot of History. In The Structure of Political Geography, edited by R. E. Kasperson and J. V. Minghi, 161-169. Chicago: Aldine.
40. Makhrova, A. G. 2005. Moskovskaya Oblast' (Moscow Oblast). In Rossiya Regionov: V Kakom Sotsial'nom Prostranstve My Zhivyem? (A Russia of Regions: In What Social Space Do We Live?), 101-109. Moscow: Nezavisimyi Institut Sotsial'noi Politiki.
41. Mason, R. J., and L. Nigmatullina 2011. Suburbanization and Sustainability in Metropolitan Moscow. Geographical Review 101 (3): 316-333.
42. MCG [Moscow City Government]. 2012. Vyshee Uchebnye Uchrezhdeniya g. Moskvy (Higher Education Institutions of the City of Moscow). Moscow City Government Web site. [http://moscow.gks.ru/moskva/social/default.aspx].
43. [McManis, D. R.]. 1989. Why Geography? [editor's note]. Geographical Review 79 (2): 226.
44. Mosmuller, H. 2011. Moscow Population: Capital May Hold 17 Million People. Russia Now, 3 June. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/russianow/society/8555676/Moscow-17-million-people.html].
45. Newsru.com. 2011. Rozhdaemost' v Stolitse Prevysila Smertnost' na 10 percent (Natality Exceeded Mortality by 10 percent in the Capital). V Moskve (In Moscow), 11 October. [newsmsk.com/article/11Oct2011/rojaut_bolshe.html].
46. Osipova, O. 2011. Rossiya Priznala Nezavisimost' Rublevki? (Has Russia Recognized the Independence of Rublevka?) Novaya Gazeta (The New Newspaper), 20 June, 3.
47. Pacione, M. 2005. Urban Geography: A Global Perspective. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.
48. Petrov, N. 2011. Not Riding Tandem. Moscow Times, 21 June, 8. [http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/not-riding-tandem/439225.html].
49. Portes, A., and B. R. Roberts 2005. The Free-Market City: Latin American Urbanization in the Years of the Neoliberal Experiment. Studies in Comparative International Development 40 (1): 43-82.
50. RIA-Novosti. 2011. RIA-Analitika: Reiting Regionov po Chislinnosti Chinovnikov (RIA-Analysis: Regions' Ranking in Number of Bureaucrats). RIA-Novosti, May 30. [ria.ru/research_rating/20110530/381736480.html].
51. Rossiiskaya Gazeta 2011. Rosstat Podvel Itogi Perepisi Naseleniya, iz Pervykh Rukh Aleksandr Surinov, Rukovoditel' Rosstata (Rosstat Has Produced Figures of the Population Census, Firsthand from Alexandr Surinov, Director of Rosstat). Rossiiskaya Gazeta (Russian Newspaper), 27 March. [http://www.rg.ru/2011/03/27/perepis-rosstat-site.html].
52. Rosstat [Federal'naya Slyuzhba Gosudarstvennoi Statistik (Federal State Statistical Service)]. 2010a. Eksport i Import Tekhnologii i Uslug Tekhnicheskogo Kharaktera (Export and Import of Technology and Technological Services). Regione Rossi (Regions of Russia). Rosstat. [http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b10_14p/IssWWW.exe/Stg/d03/26-03.htm].
53. Rosstat [Federal'naya Slyuzhba Gosudarstvennoi Statistik (Federal State Statistical Service)]. 2010b. Inostrannye Investitsii v Ekonomiku Rossiiskoi Federatsii (Foreign Investment in the Economy of the Russian Federation). Regione Rossi (Regions of Russia). Rosstat. [http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b10_14p/IssWWW.exe/Stg/d03/24-09-2.htm].
54. Rosstat [Federal'naya Slyuzhba Gosudarstvennoi Statistik (Federal State Statistical Service)]. 2010c. Organizatsii Vedushchie Podgotovku Aspirantov (Organization of the Higher Preparation of Graduate Students). Regione Rossi (Regions of Russia). Rosstat. [http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b10_14p/IssWWW.exe/Stg/d03/22-08.htm].
55. Rosstat [Federal'naya Slyuzhba Gosudarstvennoi Statistik (Federal State Statistical Service)]. 2010d. Udel'nyi Ves Sub'ekta v Obshcherossiiskikh Osnovnykh Sotsial'no-Ekonomichesikh Pokazatelyakh v 2009 g. (Individual Subjects' Contributions to the All-Russian Basic Socioeconomic Indicators in 2009). Regione Rossi (Regions of Russia). Rosstat. [http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b10_14p/IssWWW.exe/Stg/d01/01-04-2.htm].
56. Rosstat [Federal'naya Slyuzhba Gosudarstvennoi Statistik (Federal State Statistical Service)]. 2010e. Vneshnyaya Torgovlya (Foreign Trade). Regione Rossi (Regions of Russia). Rosstat. [http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b10_14p/IssWWW.exe/Stg/d03/26-01.htm].
57. Rosstat [Federal'naya Slyuzhba Gosudarstvennoi Statistik (Federal State Statistical Service)]. 2010f. Zatraty na Informatsionnye i Kommunikatsionnye Tekhnologii v 2009 (Expenditures on Information and Communications Technology in 2009). Regione Rossi (Regions of Russia). Rosstat. [http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b10_14p/IssWWW.exe/Stg/d02/20-04.htm].
58. Rosstat [Federal'naya Slyuzhba Gosudarstvennoi Statistik (Federal State Statistical Service)]. 2011. Estestvennoe Dvizhenie Naseleniya Rossiiskoi Federatsii-2011 (Natural Change of the Population of the Russian Federation). Regione Rossi (Regions of Russia). Rosstat. [http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b11_106/Main.htm].
59. Rosstat [Federal'naya Slyuzhba Gosudarstvennoi Statistik (Federal State Statistical Service)]. 2012. Chislennost' Naseleniia Rossiiskoi Federatsii po Gorodam, Poselkam Gorodskogo tipa i raionam na 1 Ianvaria 2010 Goda (Population Numbers of the Russian Federation by Cities and Settlements of an Urban Type on 1 January 2010). Rosstat. [http://www.gks.ru/bgd/regl/b10_109/Main.htm].
60. Russian Analytical Digest. 2009. Russia's Regions. A Statistical Overview. Russian Analytical Digest, No. 57: 14-17. [http://www.css.ethz.ch.pdf].
61. Sassen, S. 1991. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
62. Sinyaeva, Yu., A. Gavycheva, and P. Sedakov 2011. Prezident Pereedet pod Zvenigorod, Pravitel'stvo-vo Vnukovo (The President Will Move near Zvenigorod, the Government-to Vnukovo). Izvestiia (The News), 14 July. [http://www.izvestia.ru/news/494672].
63. Treivish, A. 2005. A New Russian Heartland: The Demographic and Economic Dimension. Eurasian Geography and Economics 46 (2): 123-155.
64. Tyuryukanova, Ye. 2009. Trudovye Migranty v Moskve: 'Vtoroye Obshchestvo' (Labor Migrants in Moscow: "A Second Society"). In Immigranty v Moskve (Immigrants in Moscow), edited by Zh. Zaionchkovskaya, 148-175. Moscow: Tri Kvadrata.
65. Vendina, O. 2007. A Development Strategy for Russia's Largest Cities. Russia in Global Affairs, 10 February. [eng.globalaffairs.ru/number/n_7984].
66. Vendina, O. 2008. Kul'turnoe Razoobrazie i "Pobochnye" Effekty Etnoku'turnoi Politiki v Moskve (Cultural Diversity and the Side-Effects of Ethnocultural Policy in Moscow). Vestnik Instituta Kennana v Rossi (Journal of the Kennan Institute in Russia) 13 (Autumn): 30-52.
67. Vinokurova, Ye. 2012. Moskva Dvukh Sortov (Two Sorts of Moscow). Gazeta.ru, 21 March. [http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2012/03/21_a_4099577.shtml].
68. Volobueva, K., and D. Ushakova 2011. Oppozitsii ne Nravitsya Rasshirenie Moskvy (The Opposition Does Not Like the Expansion of Moscow). Kommersant-Online (The Businessman-Online), 14 July. [http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1678547].
69. Xu, J., and A. G. O. Yeh 2011. Coordinating the Fragmented Mega-City Regions in China: State Reconstruction and Regional Strategic Planning. In Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions: An International Comparative Perspective, edited by J. Xu and A. G. O. Yeh, 213-235. Milton Park, U.K.: Routledge.
70. Yaskova, T. I. 2010. Migratsionnoe Prityazhenie Moskovskogo Stolichnogo Regiona kak Faktor Transformatsii Sistemy Rasseleniya Prigranichnykh Raionov Smolenskoi Oblasti (Migrational Attraction of the Moscow Capital Region as a Factor Transforming the Settlement System of the Border Districts of Smolensk Oblast). Regional'nye Issledovaniya (Research on Regions) 2 (28): 91-98.
71. Zaionchkovskaya, Zh., and N. Mkrtchian 2009. Moskva v Usloviyakh Novoi Migratsionoi Volny (Moscow under the Conditions of a New Migration Wave). Demoskop Weekly, 14-27 September. [http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/2009/0389/tema03.php].