Место издания:University of Northern British Columbia Prince George
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Аннотация:While "Arctic goes urban", Russia has already a worldwide known experience of the urbanization in polar environment.
Western Siberia, lying mainly in permafrost area, is urban for a couple of decades. Since mid-1960s, with the development of oil and gas industries, the region has experienced urbanization at a rapid pace (23 out of about thirty towns were created exnihilo).
Building human residential and industrial infrastructures at this scale, this pace, within such a harsh natural environment had been a challenge on itself. Currently, towns and country planning experience the transformation of the soviet urban landscapes. The detached house model is spreading here like in many parts of the world. The presentation will discuss, at the regional level, the urban population defined by the number of inhabitants and the urban morphology over time
based on the case of three different towns of Western Siberia using satellite imageries and census data since the 1980s.