Constructing of boundaries everyday practises in urban housing space

The article concerns the discussion of the sociological analysis of mi-crodistrict as planning units of the post soviet cities. The definition of the residential district is given in the article, its social history is briefly outlined, its main contradictions and the conflicts are described. The residential district inhabitants' modern practices of the space zoning are in the focus of the text. The every day life of tipical soviet micro discrict built in the 1970-1980-s is the subject of my article. Relationship between architectures plans and real practises were investigated. A typical Soviet micro district was a well thought-out structure, it was planned like a magic thing, like some kind of utopia. Architects made a "list of practices" which meant where people often walked, when they went to work back home, how they could meet their needs near their house City planners wanted to take into account everything, every human practices. But often the real life is not so good as they planned. One of the main problem is lack of different zones and public places in micro districts. They belong to everyone and don't belong to anyone. Actually this space can be assigned to organizations building shops or parkings or new houses, causes a social conflict between residents and businessmen. But there is only one type of daily conflicts in this place. In this paper investigate how people can construct this zones and their boundaries in everyday life. Three base types of practises were distinguished. Main method is observation.

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