Modern features of the development of a comfortable urban space in small towns of the Kaliningrad region
... funds could be seen as an effective tool in the context of a local budget deficit. To date, improving the quality of urban spaces has been possible due to participation in the all-Russian competition for the best projects for creating a comfortable urban environment, which has been held since 2018. Having accumulated competencies in working on competitive project applications, and participating in numerous cross-border cooperation programs, Kaliningrad group actively and very effectively join in ...
The geographical image of Kaliningrad and its branding policy (the case of a sociological survey of the city residents)
... results indicate that the popular image of the city is not fully consistent with its development strategy. The findings brought a number of recommendations to promote the image strategy of Kaliningrad.
Emelyanova L. L., Radevich E. G.
city, urban environment, urban planning, image, brand, urban marketing, cultural geography
17-31
Visual text of medieval Vladimir: the analysis of the dominant image of cathedral exteriors
... aims to use the example of Vladimir during the reign of Andrei Bogolyubsky and Vsevolod III to substantiate the city-forming significance of exterior sculptural programs as a visual text that encodes the key parameters of the semantic organisation of urban environment. Hermeneutic presuppositions and initial cultural conditions for such an analysis are formulated. Based on the visual semiotics of Umberto Eco, it is shown that the external temple decoration of Vladimir acts both as an aesthetic object and ...
