Right to the city: youth’s view to live in the city

Abstract

Abstract The article represents possibilities and problems of realization of the right to the city of youth in Yekaterinburg. According to the H. Lefebvre’ concept, the article states that the next generation is aimed at appropriation of surrounding environment through changing it. By using questionnaires, there were 750 students and working youth interrogated, as well as there were 25 standard interviews with young citizens. The research results showed that young people mostly prefer cultural or recreational usage of urban spaces during the stability period. Youth as an active and dynamic social community acts as a carrier of protest sentiments. These moods become actual in cases of realizations of any administrative decisions directed to privatization of public spaces or affecting the interests of young generation. Materials suggest that the period of transition from consumption to appropriation and changing of urban spaces is observed. The Do-It-Yourself movement is becoming the instrument of Transition.