ІNTEGRATED URBAN DEVELOPMENT: APPROACHES & PLANNING METHODS

Abstract

After a long time of industrial economy, modernist urban planning and neoliberal urban policy, approaches to urban development planning in Ukraine are gradually changing. Special attention today is paid to the innovative and promising integrated approach to cities planning and development, which is based on stakeholders’ participation in the planning process and acquires an appropriate legislative basis and adaptation for the country. The purpose of the article is drawing the methodological background of integrated urban development planning as a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach that concerns the interaction of all sectors of human life in the urban space. The authors reveal the emergence prerequisites, significance, application areas, as well as the substantive levels of the introduction of integrated planning and management tools in Ukrainian cities with an emphasis on the need to analyze cross-sectoral impacts. The content analysis of Ukrainian legislation and scientific sources made it possible to propose a vertically integrated system of planning formative and regulatory documentation and to determine the sequence of planning stages of integrated development of communities in Ukraine. It is noted that the highest humanitarian goal of the integrated planning tool implementation is to ensure sustainable development and rational use of the urban territory and local resources, which meets the community interests and determines its resilience in the future. The disclosure of the methodological principles of integrated urban development planning for the sustainable cities’ formation is innovative among Ukrainian geographical studies. The relevance of the publication is determined by the current process of reforming the urban planning system in Ukraine, which predicts the integrated urban development concepts development.