Local enclaves in the citywide space

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  • Igor Bondarenko Research Institute of Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Planning; National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering

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https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/88.2777

Published

2026-06-12

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No. 88 (2026): local cultures

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refereed articles

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Bondarenko, I. (2026). Local enclaves in the citywide space. Project Baikal, 23(88), 23-25. https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/88.2777

Keywords:

city, space, architecture, locus, enclave, own, alien, common

Abstract

The article shows that, throughout their history, cities have been formed from many self-sufficient enclaves, between which there was only a relative community. There were times when the main goal was to achieve the compositional and stylistic integrity of the city as an ensemble. Then the alienness of some urban objects became especially noticeable, and it had to be dealt with. Modern sprawling cities cannot claim absolute unity: they mix highly contrasting localized architectural and planning formations. According to the task set by Project Baikal journal to focus on “local cultures”, the author substantiates the idea that the harmonization of heterogeneous urban loci requires an increase and alignment of the overall cultural level of their formation and functioning.

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