SOCIOLOGY AND CULTUROLOGY OF THE SPIRIT OF THE CITY
The article is devoted to the problem of the city's cultural identity. The author analyzes the sociological and cultural approaches to understanding the originality or identity of the city. The sociological approach to the study of urban identity is aimed at analyzing urban planning policy and the complex of factors that determine it, as well as studying the socio-cultural consequences of a certain type of urban planning policy. The problem of urban identity receives the most adequate coverage in the context of a cultural approach. It is in the context of this approach that the essence of the city as a cultural phenomenon is analyzed, as well as the features of the cultural space of a modern city.Comprehension of the city, and, in particular, the metropolis, as a cultural phenomenon, involves the use of specific categories, such as, for example, "the spirit of the city." The cultural spirit (format) of the city, or the cultural idea (ideology of the city) is a system of dominant, city-forming ideas that determine the structure of the city and the organization of urban life, the general organization of the urban cultural space.