Consider the percentage of your family income that
pays for housing costs. Compare your household expense-to-income
ratio to the centrally-planned two percent required
for rent in St. Petersburg in the days the city was
known as Leningrad. How does the centrally-planned
ratio compare to the new market pricing system?
Define
continentality. What factors of continentality
affect Vologda?
Uses
of Geography
Discuss
the origins of St. Petersburg and the geographic factors
contributing to its role as a center of economic activity.
Discuss the influences of communism and the city's
future now that a free market economy has returned.
