The urban environment as a carrier, a guardian, and a threat to the local culture

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  • Alexey Buinov National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering
  • Konstantin Lidin National Institute for Higher Education

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https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/88.2786

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2026-06-12

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No. 88 (2026): local cultures

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refereed articles

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Buinov, A., & Lidin, K. (2026). The urban environment as a carrier, a guardian, and a threat to the local culture. Project Baikal, 23(88), 70-75. https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/88.2786

Keywords:

architecture, urbanism, urban environment, dynamics, metamodernism, cultural heritage

Abstract

The concept of urban environment is one of the most discussed and, at the same time, the most ambiguous concepts in modern urban studies. Most models of the urban environment consider it as a static object in which any cardinal changes are undesirable and even catastrophic. The article shows that this attitude to the dynamics of the urban environment is deeply rooted in the methodological foundations of the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle. It is proposed to use the methodological base of metamodernism for the study of the dynamic urban environment. Practical cases of successful architectural projects using this approach are considered.

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