title: Urban policy in Russia:  a geographic perspective.
abstract: The author "describes current features of the Russian urban settlement system, recounts erroneous planning practices of the past, and prescribes changes for the improvement of settlement planning in the future. [Included] are tables, disaggregated to the economic regional level, showing spatial variations in the number of new cities registered over the period 1927-1989.  In [a] modification of conventional former Soviet thinking, a case is made in favor of such processes as polarization of space, agglomeration, spontaneous transformation of urban economic profiles, and place-based rather than norm-based planning."
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D005060:Europe; D005061:Europe, Eastern; D005843:Geography; D006285:Health Planning; D009934:Organization and Administration; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011640:Public Policy; D012426:Russia; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Eastern Europe; Europe; Geographic Factors; Organization And Administration; Planning; Policy; Population; Population Characteristics; Russia; Spatial Distribution; Urban Population; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization