Keyword: «city»

The article is devoted to the main issues of the cultural development in the urban district of Tolyatti – the largest monoprofile city of Russia. The role of traditional culture in modern conditions is shown, factors which complicate participation of traditional cultural institutions in formation of the creative city are considered. The new priority directions of the cultural development on a way to the creative city are created.

In this paper the author examines the dynamic development of the global economic space conversion in the field of industrial and economic activities of social and economic systems, which must be carried out on the basis of innovation, including the single-industry towns, because in the conditions of innovative economy most urgently found their functioning problems resulting to the emergence of a depressive state of the economy and to the crisis in the social field of company towns. All this causes dysfunctional development of social and industrial structure of city-forming enterprise. There is a reduction of production capacity in the large city-forming companies that cause the budget deficit of the municipality, reducing employment and increasing social tension in single-industry towns.

Urbanization is a very topical subject of research. Actively exploring its social, economic, demographic, environmental aspects. Along with them very relevant is the perception of the urban environment in the structures of everyday experience of citizens. Daily life - one of the areas of human experience, characterized by a special form of perception and understanding of the world. The world of everyday life - it's not just the personal, private world of one individual and the objective world, common to all people experienced the same thing. Surrounding people live together not only in general for their world, but it includes as an integral part thereof. The physical existence of other people, their conscious life, the ability to communicate with them, cash social organization and culture - all this is an integral part of city life. By their actions, people define the world of life, their actions are focused on this world, it is a test of the effectiveness and action. Each person creates a world of his own life. Each individual creates their distinctive social and physical environments and that it responds. The modern city is an attractive place to stay, providing ample opportunity for the disclosure of the identity. The space of the city becomes the embodiment and personification of the modern lifestyle, outlook, as well as being rich in different possibilities of activities, saturation, social information, and cultural integration. Unchanged is the desire of citizens to own a house or apartment in an area with clean air, away from industrial enterprises, equipped with seating areas, landscaped courtyards, playgrounds and gardens. The physical space can contribute to a feeling of comfort, harmony and consistency with the human environment or, conversely, can cause feelings of alienation. With considerable social heterogeneity population of the city forms a single territorial entity. To varying degrees, all residents enjoy a whole city and its suburban area - a place of employment and recreation. To varying degrees, all citizens contribute to the formation of the urban environment, contributing to its territorial differentiation and giving its characteristic features. The city is artificially created object is a functional system for the implementation of the expanding needs. However, not only is the sense of the city. City - this is a special way to the maintenance and development of sociality, a method of preservation and reproduction of values and stereotypes, the creation and distribution of a special intellectual and spiritual atmosphere, traditional behavior. City, combining the people and their relationships with each other, various social institutions and organizations, building and civil engineering constructions, natural elements, and more, has some special properties are obvious, samopodtverzhdeniya ("autopoiesis of the city").

The article is devoted to the development of architectural features of young industrial cities in the Soviet period (the example of Togliatti, Kuibyshev region). The author singles out the historical preconditions for forming the appearance of a young city on the Volga, reveals the assessments of contemporaries. A special place in the article is devoted to the work of construction organizations engaged in the construction of the housing stock of the city.

The article examines the global economic crisis, which exacerbated a number of not simple problems of Russian regions. A lot of problems such as unemployment, decreasing living standards, aging of the population, increasing emigration of the local population are especially noticeable among young people - they are long overdue. The financial crisis made its own corrections, and these problems turned out to be very acute at the moment. At present, it is difficult to deal with the city-forming enterprises, the policy of the owner of the enterprise plays a huge role here. He can leave with his company in the politics of the region and the state or pull his business with his current.