Invisible Moscow. The issue of a city as a visual discourse

Abstract

The article touches upon semiological aspects of the city visual representation, its historical and current cultural and semantic determinants. Through the example of Moscow, it studies the phenomenon of reproduction of the medieval image of an invisible city in the system of town-planning, social and political-symbolic practices.

Keywords

• город, визуальный дискурс, средневековье, пространство, радиально-кольцевая планировка, вертикаль, власть, репрезентация