Putin has decided to develop the city and the space
The space between settlements should grow roots and grow, said President Vladimir Putin, putting an end to disputes officials about approaches to the spatial development strategy.
“There is such a point of view [about the development of large Metropolitan areas], but wins a different approach to spatial development of the country was primarily associated with the development of transport and other infrastructure between settlements”, — said Russian President Vladimir Putin, putting an end to disputes officials about approaches to the spatial development strategy.
The document should be the basis for the planning of territorial development, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak (in charge of regional development): the current programs contradict each other and cannot be the basis for regional policy.
The main fork concept was — what to develop: regions, Metropolitan areas (agglomeration) or all the territories, explained to two Federal officials.
For the development of agglomerations was made by the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin, Minister of economy Maksim Oreshkin, the first Vice-Premier Igor Shuvalov, they say. Publicly advocated this idea, and the Chairman of CSR Alexei Kudrin. The representative of the Kozak declined to comment, his colleague from the Ministry of economic development did not respond to a request. Among the supporters of integrated development of territories was itself Kozak and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, officials said.
Comfort European countries is not that good in the capital, the residents of a small town in a nightmare not dream in the big cities to live, says the official.
Compression of the territory of the agglomeration of the largest cities is inevitable, said the Director of the Institute for transport Economics and transport policy HSE Mikhail Blinkin, and the stagnation of the small territories with poorly developed transport network.
At some point, both approaches can be combined agglomerations for development also need to improve communication between the cities, says senior Director Fitch Ratings Vladimir Redkin, for example, so are actively discussing the construction of the railway between the two cities — Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg.
Centralization of the infrastructure business in the European part of Russia pulls resources to the centre and this is a problem for most other regions of the country, he concludes.
The development of towns and villages in Metropolitan areas is due to the development of transport infrastructure between major cities, agrees Vice-President of the Center for economy, infrastructure Pavel Chistyakov. When to Tver from Moscow brought “Swallows”, the city received a large bonus, the development of the transport infrastructure improves accessibility of small towns and connects big cities into a single economic space.