Tatarkin A.I. Latent Potential of Russian Cities: from Agglomerations to
Program-Project Strategies of Territory Development. // Economics of contemporary Russia 2014.
¹2 (65) Ñ.7-24.
The article
is prepared on the base of a report at the General assembly of Public sciences
department, RAS (26.03.2014). It is suggested to develop more actively
available, but still untapped potential of Russian large cities – with million
citizens, urban centers and other large cities by creating on their base
agglomerations which are able to become innovation centers of regional
development and interregional connecting. The institute of program-project
development, tested on the examples of Yekaterinburg, 13-million citizens and
some smaller cities becomes the second direction of involving latent and still
underused potential of large and smaller cities of the Russian Federation.
Strategic plans of socio-economic development of agglomerations are used as organization
“clamp” between forming agglomeration and program-project development. The
author used the methods of quality and effectiveness estimates of urban
strategies of socio-economic development. The role of urban societies in the
development, realization and assessment of strategic plans is showed in this
article.
Keywords: potential
of cities, agglomeration, urban strategic plan, program-project development of
cities, regions, municipalities, quality, effectiveness, assessment of
Strategy, role of urban societies.
