Authors

Pomorov Sergey B., Zhukovsky Roman S.
THE EVOLUTION OF URBAN POLYCENTRISM THEORY AND PRACTICE IN RETROSPECT

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №4 (52) December, 2015

The author considers the dialectical evolution of the 19th-20th century concepts of urban decentralization whilst reviewing the evolution of major cities from monocentric to polycentric plans in developed countries (USA, Europe, Russia, etc.). An attempt is made to periodize this process and to identify practice-based principles for encouraging the development of public and business activity subcentres as a basis for the theory of urban decentralization.