POPULATION DYNAMICS OF CENTERS AND SECOND CITIES OF RUSSIA’S REGIONS: ARE THERE TENDENCIES TO POLYCENTRISM?
https://doi.org/10.1134/S2587556618040076
Abstract
The article analyses the dynamics of the population of 75 regional centers and second by population size cities of the regions in Russia. The analysis is based on the population census data from 1959 to 2010 and on the current recording data for 2011–2017. In the vast majority of regions, there is a significant dominance of the regional center over the second city. It manifests itself both in the absolute parameters of the population size and in the shares of regional centers and second cities in the population sizes of their regions. In 31 regions of the country, the share of the regional center by 2002 already reached 35% and continued to increase. Fifteen years later, in 13 regions of the country, it exceeded 45%. The maximum bar of possible concentration of the population in the regional center is not yet visible. Over time, the prevailing of regional centers over the second cities of the regions is increasing. The analysis showed that the opportunities for population increase in the second cities depend on their population size: gradually, between the second cities with a population of more than 250000 people, the number of growing cities is increasing; between second small cities, the share between depopulating and growing cities is practically unchanged. Thus, the tendencies of centrism in the regions take precedence over polycentricity. The population is increasingly concentrated in separate points, vested with power. These processes are based on historical and evolutionary (history of settlement, development and urbanization), functional-economic, administrative-territorial and demographic determinants. An increasingly important factor contributing to the concentration of the population is institutional factor (associated with the performance by the regional centers of the capital functions and reducing the costs of business and consumers).
About the Author
L. B. Karachurina
National Research University Higher School of Economics; Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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- The decline in natural population growth and dominating centripetal migration strengthen the dominance of the regional centers over the second largest cities.
- In 1959 center’s population was on average 19.1% of the regional one. By 2017 this number has increased to 36.2%. In 2010 in 56 regions the regional centers were at least 3 times larger than the secondary cities.
- The larger gap in population between the regional center and the second city, the higher probability of the growing concentration of population in the regional center.
- Since 2002 the number of regional centers with negative population dynamics has sharply decreased, while the number of second cities with negative population dynamics remains stable.
- The population dynamics in regional centers and second cities does not reveal tendency for the development of polycentricity.
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Karachurina L.B. POPULATION DYNAMICS OF CENTERS AND SECOND CITIES OF RUSSIA’S REGIONS: ARE THERE TENDENCIES TO POLYCENTRISM? Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2018;(4):7-21. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.1134/S2587556618040076
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