Urban environment friendliness in the perspective of a structural functionalism

Authors

  • Еlena V. Lebedeva Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus
  • Aleksandra G. Filipova Far Eastern Federal University, 8 Sukhanova Street, Vladivostok 690090, Russia

Keywords:

city, urban environment, structural and functional analysis, post-soviet cities, functions of the urban environment, friendly urban environment
Supporting Agencies
The study was supported by the grant of the BRFFR grant (contract No. G18R-241 dated 06/01/2018) and the grant of Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project No. 18-511-00019); the research topic «Friendliness of the environment of post-Soviet cities to children and young people: a comparative analysis of Belarusian and Russian cases».

Abstract

The article is devoted to the sociological analysis of the urban environment in the perspective of the structural functionalism theory. A review of modern theoretical approaches exploring the post-soviet cities environment friendliness is given with evaluating their advantages and disadvantages. The expediency of the use of structural-functional analysis as a methodological principle of empirical study of the city is substantiated. The post-Soviet city is considered as a sociocultural system, the causes and consequences of the appearance of dysfunctions in it are analyzed. An original author’s functional model of a friendly urban environment is constructed, which allows to overcome the existing limitations of an empirical measurement of the quality of the urban environment, and can also form the basis for building a universal system of principles for designing a city.

Author Biographies

  • Еlena V. Lebedeva, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (sociology), docent; associate professor at the department of communication and public relations, faculty of journalism

  • Aleksandra G. Filipova, Far Eastern Federal University, 8 Sukhanova Street, Vladivostok 690090, Russia

    doctor of sciences (sociology), docent; professor at the department of social sciences, School of Arts and Humanities

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2019-06-13

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No. 2 (2019): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology

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Sociological Researches

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Lebedeva Е.V. and Filipova, A.G. 2019. Urban environment friendliness in the perspective of a structural functionalism. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Philosophy and Psychology. 2 (Jun. 2019), 44–53.