CITY AS A CULTURAL AND COMMUNICATIVE SPACE: TO THE FORMULATION OF THE PROBLEM

Abstract

The article substantiates the main provisions defining the need to expand cultural studies of the city, taking into account its understanding as a cultural and communicative space, as well as scientific conceptualization in Ukrainian cultural science of a number of concepts: urban culture, urban lifestyle, urban fashion, urban environment, urban traditions, etc. It is accentuated that the modern city is a complex cultural and communicative system, which is a conglomerate of various semantic and external material manifestations of sociocultural phenomena. The cultural and communicative spaces of different cities, as well as other settlements, form the common architectonics of the cultural space of the country.