Social segregation of private activity spaces in posttransformational metropolis (by the example of Saint-Petersburg)

Abstract

On the basis of surveys taken in Saint-Petersburg in 2006-2007, a decision can be made that the transformation has led to distinct division of city space between people of different social status. This concerns not so much to residential spatial segregation as to spaces of activity that consist of personal dairy, weekly, annual etc movement routes and subjects of visit. We have committed and described differences in types of personal activity spaces between different social groups and similarity of such spaces inside these groups. We studied space-time parameters of consumer behaviour, work, social contacts and recreation of different social groups' representatives. All that led us to make a number of conclusions about factors that influence on the process of private activity spaces' social segregation and spatiotemporal component of different social groups' behaviour.