Capital as a socio-cultural phenomenon
This article is devoted to the analysis of capitalation phenomenon, and also searching and studying of the main questions: What is capital and how it forms? What are the main properties of capital? The author used the complex studying method of the capital phenomenon, conducted the analysis of the leading urbanists’ works who have already investigated this field. Capital, as a top of socio-cultural space, dissociates from the other part of state. The capitalation phenomenon is analyzed by the author in the frames of dichotomy «capital - province» because studying of capital’s symbols is possible only in comparison with peculiarities of surrounding province. In the article capital is presented as an analysis object of different existence spheres’, as a complex, multilevel and diverse occurrence. The author researched and found out the main properties and attributes of capitalation, separated out a cultural, political, economic and civilization aspects; and also the author has made a conclusion that being a realized sample, capital is free of influence, and it carries ideas and beauty through time and space, striving forward and ignoring all barriers.