Archaeology of the Periphery

Moscow urban sprawl research

In Archaeology of the Periphery, a variety of specialists tackle the issue Moscow's metropolitan area future strategy. As one of the best examples of urban concentric development, teams of engineers, architects, planners, economists and sociologists, studied the Russian metropolis with a pointed focus on the periphery — specifically the territory between the Third Ring Road and the Moscow Ring Road.

Using an archaeological approach, the study reveals entrenched and hidden planning structures in order to increase the awareness and attractiveness of the periphery. Archaeology of the Periphery argues that examination of the city's fringe requires different methods of analysis than would be applied to traditional city centers.

The publication, which is available to view online, features an examination of over 25 urban territories from around the world. Using satellite imagery, the study shows the imprint of the real city beyond administrative border and explores the relationship of these metropolises to their official, fixed centers.

Credits

COLLABORATORS: Meganom, Moscow Urban Forum, Strelka Insitute

PROJECT OFFICE: Vasily Auzan, Nat Chamayeva, Taisia Osipova, Glafira Parinos, Maria Slavnova, Natalia Tatunashvili.

“BEYOND THE CENTRE” AUTHORS: Justin McGuirk, Brendan Cormier, Roger Connah, Leonid Smirnyagin, Ellen Dunhem-Jones, Christian von Wissel, Felix Madrazo, Elisabete Franca, Silvio Torres, Sophie Body-Gendrot, Theo Deutinger, Onur Ekmekci, Matias Sendoa Echanove & Rahul Srivastava, Deden Rukmana, Jiang Jun, Daan Roggeveen & Michiel Hulshof, Yasushi Aoyama.

“SPACED” RESEARCH TEAMS: (S) Sociology, (P) Politics, (A) Architecture, (C) Culture, (E) Economics, (D) Data.

(S) SОCIOLOGY

Curator: Alexey Levinson

Working Group: Valentina Archangelskaya, Ludmila Marfina, Anna Naumenko, Rena Ivanyan

Experts: Deden Rukmana

Organizations: Levada Center

(P) POLITICS

Curator: Alexei Muratov

Co-curator: Olga Vendina

Experts, authors of texts and analytical notes: Michail Blinkin, Valentin Bogorov, Anna Bronovitskaya, Nataliya Volkova, Alexander Lozhkin, Timothy Misir, Glafira Parinos, Maria Romakina, Jemal Surmanidze, Kseniya Tolkacheva, Eduard Trutnev, Evgeniy Shingarev, Alexey Shukin, Brian Evans, Alexey Yatsenko, Anatoliy Belov? Alexander Vysokovskiy

Organizations: Graduate School of Urban Studies and Planning at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics

(A) ARCHITECTURE

Curator: Yury Grigoryan

Co-curators: Sergey Sitar, Natalia Tatunashvili

Working Group: Victor Karovskiy, Polina Filippova, Marko Mihic-Jeftic, Maria Slavnova, Serafima Telkanova, Simon Rastorguev, Maria Fedorova, Anastasia Frolova, Ruben Arakelyan, Elena Uglovskaya

Experts: Anna Bronovitskaya, Helene Afanasieff, Olga Kazakova, Valentina Melnikova, Federico Parolotto

(C) СULTURE

Curator: Grigory Revzin

Working Group: Rozaliya Tarnovetskaya, Margarita Chubukova

Experts: Alexander Gavrilov, Michael Shindchelm

(E) ECONOMICS

Curator: Aleksey Novikov

Authors: Valentin Bogorov, Alexander Puzanov, Nadezda Kosareva, Tatiana Polidi

Working group: Ekaterina Dyba, Maria Golovina, Elena Putilova, Alexander Vysokovskiy

Organizations: Graduate School of Urban Studies and Planning at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics

(D) DATA

Curator: Aleksey Novikov

Authors: Ekaterina Serova, Valentin Bogorov

Working Group: Filipp Kats, Andrey Lukashenkov, Oleg Kiselev, Irina Maslova, Sergey Khristolyubov, Vadim Smakhtin, Eduard Haiman (Mathrioshka)

Organizations: Thomson Reuters, OJSC “MegaFon”, Mathrioshka

EDITORIAL DESIGN DEPARTMENT: Dima Barbanel, Zhdan Philippov, Zhenya Yukechev, Alexey Chekulaev, Sergey Kalinin, Konstantin Lukyanov, Maxim Volhin, Michail Shishyannikov, Elena Kaporskaya — MASTERSKAYA.

LITERARY EDITORS: Alexander Ostrogorskiy, Sergey Petrov, Roger Connah.

TRANSLATION: Olga Grinkrug, Fedor Ermoshin, Daria Ermoshina, Ludmila Lezhneva, Stanislav Lvovsky, Sarah McDowel, John Nicolson, Anton Razmakhin, Anna Shirokova-Koens, Lera Shvets, Larisa Skvortsova, Daria Sonkina, Arina Turkatenko, Svetlana Tenyaeva, Clive Phillips, Tatiana Voronina, Aleksandra Yagnyukova.

PROOFREADING: Tim Misir, Sophia Lampard

BOOK PHOTOGRAPHS: Ivan Muraenko