Architecture & Urbanism

Igor Filonenko03.10.2025

1. Introduction. Why do they move capitals? History knows many examples when states decided to move their capital. Since the 18th century 69 countries have changed their center. It is always more than just an administrative step; it is a strategic move, reflecting new national priorities. The main reasons behind such decisions can be grouped […]

Klim Zhukov02.10.2025

The ancient Greeks and Romans also struggled with the housing crisis. In many developed countries, real estate prices have risen so much that for many people, the dream of owning a home has faded away. Renting is often not the best option, as the supply of affordable housing is limited. This is one of the […]

Vladimir Morozov21.09.2025

On behalf of President Putin, the Government has allocated 500 million rubles for subsidizing loans for construction companies that build housing in small towns (Order No.2524-r dated September 12, 2025). This is only for the current year. In 2025, companies that are building 390,000 square meters of housing and plan to complete it the following […]

Vladimir Morozov15.08.2025

If earlier Russian villages disappeared en masse from the map of the country, now small towns are disappearing too. Thus, according to a study by RANEPA prepared for the Government, 129 small towns with a population of 3.4 million people may disappear in Russia in the coming years. Over the past ten years, the number […]

Dmitry Narinsky13.08.2025

For more than four decades, the world has been living and developing under the ideology of “Sustainable Development”. The concept of “Sustainable Development” was born in the mid-80s of the last century and firmly entered into political circulation as the basis for ideas about the ideal world order. The key event that finally consolidated this […]

Igor Filonenko06.08.2025

More precisely, it is about the interaction and complementarity of urban and rural territories. The boundaries between them will be blurred, but certainly not to the point of complete “interpenetration” or a kind of social annihilation. In general, an amazing thing is happening. Even Adam Smith and David Ricardo analyzed the division of labor and […]

Igor Filonenko25.07.2025

The history of mankind is the history of sedentarism. Nomadic tribes, who for centuries followed herds of animals and seasonal harvests, one day stopped. The transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and livestock breeding became the first great revolution that gave birth to stationary settlements. But the real revolution occurred when the division of […]

Nikita Tokarev21.07.2025

In line with political changes that call into question cultural and economic globalization, architects and clients in Russia are increasingly turning to the idea of a national style. The concept of Russian style refers us to national and even ethnic affiliation. It seems to me that in this way we find ourselves again in the […]

Igor Filonenko23.06.2025

Discussions and reasoning about the fate and future appearance of cities, with rare exceptions, take place in two planes — “bright future” and “dystopia”. This is especially evident in that part of such reasoning that spills out to the masses through cinema, literature, computer games. Cities of the “bright future” are: — “human scale”, — interaction […]

Dmitry Narinsky10.06.2025

Dacha is a unique phenomenon of Russian culture. This concept has entered into different languages without translation, which only emphasizes its uniqueness. Dacha is a city dweller’s way of life outside the city or in the countryside. Dacha as a phenomenon appeared in Russia at the beginning of the 18th century, during the reign of […]

Moving the Capital: Global Experience and Prospects for Russia

The Housing Crisis in Ancient Greece and Rome

Is it Possible for Small Towns to Survive?

Small Towns Determine the Future of the Country

New Principles of Sustainable Development

City and Village: Through the Crisis to New Formats of Interaction

A Millennial Symbiosis of Cities and Villages

Is a “Russian Style” Possible in Architecture?

Ideal City And New Urbanism

Dacha as an Anticity Concept

Japan to keep importing Russian LNG

The Deal of the Century for Trump the Peacemaker

Fasting

The Glory of the World