SOCIOCULTURAL URBAN SPACE IN E-SOCIETY Olga Kononova 1 , Dmitry Prokudin 1,2 and Vitalina Karachay 1 1 St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University), 197101, St. Petersburg, Russia 2 St. Petersburg State University, 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia ABSTRACT The study focuses on the sociocultural aspects of urban development. Paper presents the complete deterministic concept of service oriented Sociocultural Information Urban Space (SIUS), considered as a logical development of the intercultural-communicational, technical-resource approaches and social machine concept in order to studying and understanding the features, possibilities, and base information flows of the Smart City sociocultural face. The SIUS idea helps to recognize or improve the data driving city concept because of smart technology use, so that greater range of digital services related to the sociocultural city facets can be provided to different stakeholders. The study includes exploring the interaction of pervasive processes of the urban space, specification of the SIUS architecture and concept. Based on principles and practices of the pervasive approach, the main mechanisms of citizens’ involvement into the active creative development of the SIUS are identified. Moreover, the study discusses two application scenarios which demonstrate how pervasive processes of sustainable development and pervasive self-regulation mechanisms of SIUS can be used in order to consider the factual needs of citizens and decision-making. KEYWORDS Smart City, Social Machine, Smart Technology, Sociocultural Information Urban Space, e-Society 1. INTRODUCTION Global urbanization has significantly increased over the past few centuries. The growth of the world’s cities is ingrained in a culture of short-term economic benefit and often raging consumption and production practices that compromise the sustainability of the environment (World Cities Report, 2016). Modern urbanization process and urbanism have been basically conditioned by technological changes and by the organization of the city and society as a media-sphere (Wakabayashi, 2002). In this regard, the issue of description and feature characteristics determination of Sociocultural Information Urban Space (SIUS) and the study of motivation mechanisms identification for citizens’ participation in the decision-making processes in urban development domain become relevant. The present research is aimed at identifying the mechanisms of citizens’ involvement into Sociocultural Information Urban Space. The following tasks were specified in the paper: identify, study and classify the main SIUS subjects and objects and its interactions; based on the analysis of existing methods and approaches, including the investigation of the Sociocultural Information Urban Space of St. Petersburg, identify the main mechanisms of citizens’ involvement into the active creative development of the SIUS. The authors propose a new concept of Sociocultural Information Urban Space, which is the evolutionary development of the existing conceptions. SIUS of the modern city is viewed in this paper as an interactive form of communication between the urban environment subjects. Our interests focus on the supplementation of existing interaction forms and types of actors within the framework of traditional social and cultural institutions, as well as on the development of the intellectual and creative activity of the people, both in real and virtual space. The study can be considered as a source of knowledge and facilitates the better urban design, making it more functioning and more sustainable; optimize the use of limited resources and make better decisions in the Smart City. 18th International Conference on WWW/Internet 2019 145