Dr Vlad Mykhnenko
About
Dr Vlad Mykhnenko is an economic geographer, working on a range of issues relating to urban and regional economic development, and geographical political economy. Much of Vlad's research focusses on the interrelationship between spatial imbalances in production and income, urban growth and decline, state fiscal power inequalities, territorial cohesion, and societal conflict. Empirically, he works with urban and regional data gathered in developing middle-income countries and territories, including the post-Soviet Eastern Europe, Brazil, and China, as well as in high-income, industrially advanced economies of Western Europe, North America, and Japan.
Expertise
- Urban growth and decline
- Shrinking cities
- Urban resilience
- Urban and regional economies
- Deindustrialisation, re-industrialisation, and the knowledge-based economy
- Sustainable urban development
- Regional growth inequalities, regional policy, and territorial cohesion
- Post-communist transitions in Eastern Europe and the former USSR
- Varieties of capitalism
- Ukraine
- Russia: politics, economics, regions
- The Russo-Ukrainian conflict: the Crimea and the Donbas
Selected publications
- Causes and consequences of the war in eastern Ukraine (2020)
- State rescaling and economic convergence (2019)
- Urban shrinkage with Chinese characteristics (2018)
- Conceptualizing urban shrinkage (2014)
- Ukraine’s diverging space-economy: The Orange revolution, post-soviet development models and regional trajectories (2010)
- Class voting and the Orange revolution: A cultural political economy perspective on Ukraine’s electoral geography (2009)
- The trajectories of European cities, 1960–2005 (2007)
Media experience
Interviews and commentary for local, national, and international media outlets (in English, Chinese, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Russian), including The Financial Times, BBC News, Forbes, Svenska Dagbladet.
Recent media work
- The world economy during the pandemic. Warning: Corona could make London a ghost town
- Research focus: The reality of shrinking cities
- Saving Europe’s cities with proper policy analysis and bold interdisciplinary approaches
- On causes and consequences of the war in eastern Ukraine: economic geography perspective
- Converging Cities: Why the Gap Between the Haves and Have-nots Is Getting Smaller
- Mayor Mike Duggan: how I am halting Detroit’s decline
- Will Russia let its cities take on Moscow?
- UK cities enjoying 'resurgence'
- Neoliberalism in cities: plurality of manifestations and possible alternatives
- The internally displaced people will not be able to revive the Donbas after liberation
- The Donbas lost three-quarters of GDP after Russian aggression
- Lytvyn steals the little things. So far, only articles
Languages
English, Ukrainian, Russian