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Fedyakin, I.V. Metropolises as political subjects: history and modern situation.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of prerequisites for the metropolises becoming political process subjects at various levels. The author establishes the key tendencies for the role transformation of the big cities within the framework of their historical development. One of the global development tendencies, showing sustainable historical dynamics for latest decades, includes on one hand growing number of cities, and on the other hand, growing number of its population. Currently, more and more people live in the big and ever-growing cities, and concentration of people in them is only getting higher.


Keywords:

political science, politics, society, metropolis, Russia, communications, transportation, values, urbanizations, interests.


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