Philosophical understanding of urban culture in an interdisciplinary context

Abstract

The authors set themselves the goal of characterizing the culture and spiritual life of the city within theframework of an interdisciplinary approach. The article substantiates an interdisciplinary approach to thestudy of urban culture, since the complex ambiguous nature of city culture cannot be fully described and stud-ied from the standpoint of any monodisciplinary approach. However, both cultural, semiotic and environmen-tal factors are important in the study of certain aspects of the material and spiritual urban culture. The authorsemphasize that the environmental approach is one of the most sought-after methodological approaches toanalysis. Thus, urban architecture as the most important component of the city’s material culture, which dif-fers in fundamental features in various historical eras, represented by various architectural styles (antique, ar-chitectural modernism, minimalism, etc.) and involves joint actions by designers, philosophers, architects, aswell as civil engineers, financiers, representatives of local authorities and, most importantly, members of thepublic. The article provides an analysis of domestic and foreign studies of urban culture, shows the transfor-mation of assessments of the city, urban spiritual life, urban culture. “Urban culture” is characterized as an ar-tificially created environment for people to exist and realize themselves. The study examines the vectors ofdevelopment of the culture of a modern city.