Abstract
The purpose of the article is to analyze the regulatory framework for urban policy in some European countries in order to emulate their positive experience and to implement it in Ukrainian legislation. Methodology. The study used general scientific and special methods of legal science, in particular, analysis and synthesis method, logical method, logical and semantic method, historical and legal method, comparative and legal method. The results of the study. The foreign practice of regulatory framework for urban policy provision, the features of its development and implementation have been considered. The content of urban policy in a number of European countries (Latvia, Finland, France and the Czech Republic) has been studied and the relevant programs implemented by the European Union have been examined. Practical implications. The experience of foreign countries has shown that State urban policy is not always set out in a single document, but as a rule is presented in several legal acts or is a component of other State programs, especially in the area of regional policy. Value/originality. The authors have proven that taking into account the peculiarities of regulatory framework for urban policy in Ukraine, it would be appropriate to adopt a separate document on urban policy that would consider the European practice and legislation of the European Union in this area, as well as the peculiarities of Ukrainian cities.
Highlights
Cities are the focal points of territorial and economic development of any State, because they produce the bulk of the gross national product, they are the main donors of local and State budgets, the centers for the development and implementation of high industrial and humanitarian technologies
The importance of cities is even growing in a market economy: they become the centers of market relations, as they concentrate the markets of means of production and consumer goods, knowledge, labor, currencies and securities
Urban policy in Latvia is regulated by such documents as: Latvia’s Sustainable Development Strategy for 2030 (Saeima of the Republic of Latvia, 2010); Lithuania’s National Development Plan 2014 – 2020 (Saeima of the Republic of Latvia, 2012a); Latvia’s National Development Plan 2027 (NAP 2027), Lithuania’s Progress Strategy “Lithuania 2030 (Saeima of the Republic of Latvia, 2012b)
Summary
Cities are the focal points of territorial and economic development of any State, because they produce the bulk of the gross national product, they are the main donors of local and State budgets, the centers for the development and implementation of high industrial and humanitarian technologies. The importance of cities is even growing in a market economy: they become the centers of market relations, as they concentrate the markets of means of production and consumer goods, knowledge, labor, currencies and securities. It is safe to say that the regularities of development of cities are in need of theoretical reinterpretation This is due to the fact that cities as the generators of national processes of socio-economic stabilization and development reflect the general structural changes in the economic sphere, the formation of social needs of society, set the pace and direction of improving the entire production and territorial base. The development of new master plans, definition of long-term goals of the territorial community, the introduction of new mechanisms and means in the management system of the urban economy based on the peculiarities of market relations are relevant. The leaders among the countries of modern civilization, in domestic politics of which the importance of local (i.e. urban) level is rapidly growing, are the States of European Union
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