Sustainable Urban Development Strategic Initiatives

Margarita Panteleeva,Svetlana Borozdina

doi:10.3390/su14010037

Margarita Panteleeva, Svetlana Borozdina

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https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010037

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Journal: Sustainability	Publication Date: Dec 21, 2021
Citations: 6	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Moscow State University of Civil Engineering

Abstract

In order to ensure the implementation of the “Strategy for the Development of the Construction Industry of the Russian Federation until 2030” and the implementation of the UN resolution on sustainable development, there is a need to develop new strategic management initiatives. They should allow authorities to make inter-city comparisons, considering specific cities and their objects against the background of others undergoing similar development processes. In this article, the authors propose strategic initiatives for the management of urban facilities. In particular, the authors’ approach to the assessment of the sustainable development of housing and communal service facilities in the city is proposed. According to the authors, the housing and communal city service objects mean capital construction objects in different forms of reproduction. Moreover, the article examines both residential buildings and structures, and utility networks. The authors’ approach consists in the constant assessment of the city’s housing and communal service facilities at different stages of their operation. For this, the authors use several types of analysis: ex post analysis, ex ante analysis, and foresight analysis. For each type of analysis, the authors form a set of assessment indicators and indicate the period of the analysis. The result of the study is the development of an indicator for the assessment of the level of sustainable development of housing and communal service facilities in the city, and a roadmap for their development strategy. The roadmap is formed considering the introduction of modern end-to-end technologies and digital tools into the work of state bodies. The proposed approach, on the one hand, considers the internal complexity and heterogeneity of the city’s housing and communal service facilities. On the other hand, it is a simple tool for the making of effective management decisions by power structures, as it uses data which are available on a regular basis.

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Published: 21 December 2021Currently, half of the world’s population lives in cities and consumes three quarters of the world’s resources [1]
In order to apply the organizational and analytical model described above when developing a strategy for the sustainable development of housing and communal service object development, the authors proceed from the assumption that the sustainability of the city depends both on the material and physical objects of housing and communal services, and on the social and environmental components of such a complex and dynamic structure as a modern city, as the sustainable development of each individual city should go along with the provision of both the national direction towards sustainability, and the global trend, which was set in 2015 by the UN General Assembly Resolution No
The selected goals are directly related to the problems of urban infrastructure’s sustainable development, as they are aimed at achieving conditions for sustainable development through the joint efforts of governments, the private sector, civil society, and the inhabitants of the Earth

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Introduction

Half of the world’s population lives in cities and consumes three quarters of the world’s resources [1]. Many of the modern capitals that play a dominant role in the life of individual countries can be called cities of global importance, due to their decisive contribution to the political, economic and social life of individual countries but the whole world. Among the most important, promising problems are the problems of urban infrastructure, covering the main critical sectors of life: transport, energy, digitalization, waste, housing, and communal services. The relevance and complexity of solving problems related to the creation of sustainable urban infrastructure is often due to the complex nature of the organizational and economic relationships that arise during the functioning of its various elements [2].

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