Conceptualizing the urban community in the public space of a modern city[Концептуализация Городского Сообщества В Публичном Пространстве Современного Города]

A city is created from the general context of streams of representations and interactions of its inhabitants-users-citizens, who broadcast the experience in a certain space and time. The manifestation of this actual “being – in – the-world” requires a territorial “assemblage point”. The most common form of anchoring and “body reach” of shared presence and social interaction is the city space, which includes more than 75 % of the world’s population, which we define as citizens. Public space creates the environment for the joint presence of people and objects, the “dynamics of stone and flesh”, static and mobile, representable (architecture, transport, etc.) and unrepresentable (hidden infrastructure network outside the line-of-sight – technical systems, water channels). Analysis of models of urban communities is essential for understanding the mechanisms of their development. Public realm of the city sets a special model of social corporeality by regulating the practices of constructing and using accessible areas of general visibility that mainstream the joint presence of citizens, their interaction as the main users and subjects of social environment transformation. The crises of large megacities, manifested in the processes of alienation of the community from the location, the growth of loneliness and unregulated places of exclusion in the city space force citizens to form new forms of presence in the urban community – the practice of remote participation in the project of constructing a cyber-city. Scientific novelty. The article describes a conceptual model of a modern urban community in the context of the growth of new social conflicts in a transforming social reality. On the one hand, this model presents data on urban activism that unites citizens, and, on the other hand, individual strategies of residents – “media partisans”, which redefine the territorial community in the landscape of “post – public”. Method of research. The article is based on a comprehensive study that includes both general scientific: analytical and predictive methods, as well as a method of cognitive modeling for analyzing the current model of urban community transformation; and empirical methods of combined sociological strategy (mass survey of citizens and rural residents (n = 516); in-depth interviews with representatives of urban communities, N = 10).