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Роль стратегического планирования в развитии города: подходы к оценке
The article is about econometric analysis relationship between system of strategic planning and the level of city development. The main hypothesis is about existing impact of strategic plan on some aspects of a city. The 18 indexes of social and economic development were looked. Correlation and regression analysis show the weak statistic relation between four indexes and duration of existing of system strategic planning. In the end of the article the conclusion about reasons of this relation are made.
Purpose – The paper is aimed to present the approach to the investigation of place development trajectory which ties up the bottom-up initiatives and the city strategic perspectives.
Design / approach – It is proposed to implement the ‘tactical urbanism’ activities and to up-scale their insights to tackle them with city strategy. The approach is aimed at local community activation as the preliminary stage of further involvement and gives new insights into ways of city representation. The case study is performed on the basis of the intervention that was implemented during the “Interactive Moscow” Summer School and the possible strategic insights are discussed.
Findings – The paper proposes the way of abandoned places development using intervention as a tool of community activation and draws the possible algorithm schematically, which needs further discussion.
Originality / value – The paper tests transferability of place management concept to centrally planned environment.
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