Veliky Novgorod, Veliky Novgorod, Russian Federation
The article discusses the methodology of interdisciplinary synthesis of social and geographical imagination in the perspective of urban space research. Based on classical and contemporary sources, the author explores variants of the definition of the ‘social imaginary’ and some ways of its application in urban studies, as well as analyses the conceptual resource of imaginative geography and the main principles of constructing the territory image. It is emphasized that the synthesis of social and geographical imagination focuses the attention of urban researchers on the phenomenon of collectively established meaning and its cultural variations.
urban theory, cultural space of the city, social construction, production of space, social imaginary, imaginative geography
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