Cities of North-West Federal District: the state of urban development sector and its main challenges

Olga Popova,Kirill Grabovyy,Marina Perekopskaya,Elizaveta Martynova,V Murgul

doi:10.1051/matecconf/201710601007

Abstract

This article analyzes the compliance of planned and actual results of the implementation of the first phase of territorial planning documents of towns, medium and big cities in the North-West Federal District of Russia. Particular attention is paid to the deformation of forecasting scenario for prospective population in researched cities and to identification of factors that contributed to this deformation. The authors propose a variant of preparation of territorial planning documents in a search for effective tools for urban development of the North-West Federal District of Russia.

Highlights

After Russia’s transition to a market economy and the variety of ownership forms the former system of public policy planning of socio-economic development of the country and individual territories had been destroyed
The directions of urban development are established by law primarily in the territorial planning documents in accordance with the Urban Planning Code of the Russian Federation
We revealed the fact of development of general plans of the researched cities before schemes of territorial planning of the Russian Federation were adjusted

Summary

Introduction

After Russia’s transition to a market economy and the variety of ownership forms the former system of public policy planning of socio-economic development of the country and individual territories had been destroyed. The onset of the period indicated in the documents of territorial planning in a number of towns, medium and big cities in the North-West Federal District of Russia as the first stage of their implementation allows to evaluate compliance with the planned and actual results of the first phase of the major plans. This helps to identify the main forecasting scenario of social and economic development in considered interval and to indicate the factors that contributed to the deformation of these scenarios

Experimental section

Results and discussion sections

Conclusions