Ovodova S.N.

The purpose of the study is to determine the mechanisms of interaction of urban communities in the formation of Smart City by assessing the level of development of internal urban subsystems on a territorial basis, taking into account the processes of segregation. The study is based on the analysis of scientific discourse about Smart City, institutional analysis of the legal framework for the development of “smart cities” in the Russian Federation, as well as data from an expert survey of representatives of territorial public self-government committees in Omsk city. Having studied the world experience of building “smart cities”, the author noted the priority importance of the internal environment in the development of the city, which includes social and institutional foundations for generating and implementing innovations. The problems that arise because of the low readiness of urban communities for Smart City technology solutions are noted, including the hypothesis of the impact of digitalization on the strengthening of spatial segregation. Based on the materials of Omsk city, a classification of the mechanisms of interaction of urban communities in the formation of Smart City was developed. It is determined that in the city of Omsk there is a significant segregation of the territory according to the level of development of elements of the urban environment. The scientific novelty consists in identifying additional grounds for segregation of the urban environment based on the dichotomy of the concepts of “digital city” and “smart city”. The study was supported by the RFBR (project 18-311-00210 “Sociolinguistic analysis of urbanistic discourse of urban communities (by the example of Omsk city)”).