Northern Cities

ABSTRACT

This article is devoted to a comparative analysis of northern cities in both Russia and the world. It uses a database, which is generated from the freely accessible website Wikipedia, and includes 124 urban settlements in Russia, the United States, Canada, and Norway. It also uses standard statistical methods for analysis. The study’s results support the conclusions of the new economic geography. In the long-term perspective, the growth of agglomerations and the decline of small settlements will continue. A comparative analysis of northern cities highlighted a number of general problems. In the United States, Canada, and Norway the market model is supplemented with significant social investments and public transfers. The Soviet model of northern development is exhausted. Nevertheless, the new Russia continues to rely on the old supporting framework.

English translation © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, from the Russian text © 2016 “EKO.” “Severnye goroda: obshchie trendy i natsional’nye osobennosti,” EKO, 2016, no. 3, pp. 63–79.

This article was written under the auspices of the scientific project RFFI (Bel’mont forum) N 15-54-71003 “Biudzhet ugleroda merzlotnykh ekosistem, gorodov i poselenii vostochnoi Arktiki Rossii” (C budget of ecosystems and cities and villages on permafrost).

T.N. Gavril’eva is a doctor of economic sciences at Ammosov Engineering and Technical Institute, Northeastern Federal University, Department of Regional and Economic Social Studies, Yakutsk Scientific Center, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk. E.A. Arkhangel’skaia is candidate of technical sciences at Ammosov Engineering and Technical Institute, Northeastern Federal University, Yakutsk.

Translated by John Riedl. Translation reprinted from Problems of Economic Transition, vol. 60, nos. 10—11. DOI: 10.1080/10611991.2018.1628595.

KEYWORDS:

• urban settlements
• comparative analysis
• population
• the North
• depression
• stable development

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Northern Cities

Notes

English translation © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, from the Russian text © 2016 “EKO.” “Severnye goroda: obshchie trendy i natsional’nye osobennosti,” EKO, 2016, no. 3, pp. 63–79.

This article was written under the auspices of the scientific project RFFI (Bel’mont forum) N 15-54-71003 “Biudzhet ugleroda merzlotnykh ekosistem, gorodov i poselenii vostochnoi Arktiki Rossii” (C budget of ecosystems and cities and villages on permafrost).

T.N. Gavril’eva is a doctor of economic sciences at Ammosov Engineering and Technical Institute, Northeastern Federal University, Department of Regional and Economic Social Studies, Yakutsk Scientific Center, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk. E.A. Arkhangel’skaia is candidate of technical sciences at Ammosov Engineering and Technical Institute, Northeastern Federal University, Yakutsk.

Translated by John Riedl. Translation reprinted from Problems of Economic Transition, vol. 60, nos. 10—11. DOI: 10.1080/10611991.2018.1628595.