Formation of vernacular areas in large city (case of Khabarovsk)

The study considers the urban environment as a subject of interdisciplinary study. The relevance of the problem is confirmed by the irrationality of the administrative zoning of large cities in terms of modern epistemology. As an example, a large far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, characterized by a large length, heterogeneity of the population in quantitative and qualitative compositions, is considered. The study analyzed the preferences of Khabarovsk residents regarding accommodation, work and leisure activities in different areas of the city of Khabarovsk. Two methods of delimitation of urban space are applied – division into administrative districts with clear boundaries and allocation of urban space vernacularly (mental) districts with a conditional boundaries. Based on empirical data obtained in the course of a sociological survey of residents of the city of Khabarovsk, the features of the concentration of the population in the administrative inner-city areas are revealed. In most of them, there are several vernacular regions, which differ from each other numerically and in a number of other factors: age, nationality, level of well-being. Accordingly, the data of the residents of the administrative district give average figures, do not characterize the features of a particular location – and can not serve as the basis for the study of the urban environment. Vernacular zoning as an element of research, on the contrary, allows revealing the most characteristic features of the urban environment. In the course of work generated schematic map of Khabarovsk locations and schedule preferences Khabarovsk relative to the most semiotician urban.