Russian Mega-Cities: Some Current Structural-Functional Trends

We are accustomed to comprehend our mega-cities as the human ant-hills concentrated in them thousand billions of its aborigines and newcomers. The theory of city-planning successfully developed in the Soviet times is now in decay. Recently so-called urban planners are mostly the developers who didn’t take into account the major challenges of our times such as a transition toward a new, information-communication revolution (hereafter the ICR) as well as those deep and radical transformations under the transition to a market economy i.e. to the capitalist mode of production. At the same time, the agents of the above transformations and their environment gradually acquired a complex character. The process of the shaping of such integrated systems I call as the socioibiotechnical ones (hereafter the SBT-systems. See: Yanitsky, 2016).