ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on research and reflections on the development trends and discourses in the transformation of cityscapes, as observed in St. Petersburg, the second largest city in the Russian Federation. However, although St. Petersburg's industrial heritage meets the criteria for a balanced World Heritage List, the boundaries of the city's World Heritage Site skirt around them, creating a lacuna. St. Petersburg has witnessed many conflicts between conservation, architectural production, and urban development, which have become the central issues of public debate. The conflicts became so sharp that, in December 2010, Matviyenko announced that the city administration and Gazprom had decided to relocate the skyscraper project. In 2007, Gazprom demolished the existing Soviet factory buildings at the proposed construction site. Then, a contract was signed with Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall (RMJM), and tenders were announced for an engineering and geological study and general planning and construction work.
