Semantic boundaries of the “city” concept

Abstract

The article presents the problem of constructing the “city” concept at the current level of urban studies development. The authors proceed from the position that the existing approaches to the analyzed phenomenon do not allow to formulate a concept that can cover various types of socio-territorial organization of people’s lives, referred to as the word “city”. Various researchers offer different grounds for constructing the desired definition: production-economic, territorial, cultural, etc. The authors believe that the definitions used in science are outdated, and the content of the “city” concept requires revision. The article does not claim to be an exhaustive solution to the problem, but rather accentuates the spatial and temporal lines of analysis of the city phenomenon.