Métropolisation, inégalités sociales et modes d’habiter : trajectoire d’une ville millionnaire russe vue par ses dačniki

Abstract

Russia has experienced a recent urbanization process affected by the economic crisis of the 1990s and, more recently, by the metropolization of large cities. Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, offers a good example of these new growing metropolises. Indeed, since 2005, Kazan has undergone major urban transformation, becoming Russian Tatars’ symbol. Nevertheless, evolution and successive redevelopments created strong socio-spatial and environmental inequalities, visible in particular through allotment gardens’ analyzes. Thus, urban populations and gardeners are implementing individual and collective strategies in order to build better ways of inhabiting matching their aspirations.

Keywords

• metropolization
• inequality
• way of inhabiting
• dachas
• Kazan