Methodological Approaches to the Development of Public Spaces in Accordance with the Concept of Sustainable Development

Abstract

The issue of urban area efficient use is one of the top-priority issues in planning public space development projects. The current trend is that public spaces and parks play an important role in increasing the attractiveness of cities as a whole and, in particular, individual city blocks and directly affect the quality of human life. Within the framework of Russian Federation priority national project “Formation of a comfortable urban environment” it is planned to carry out measures to improve municipal unit territories of the corresponding functional purpose (squares, embankments, streets, pedestrian areas, garden squares, parks, other territories). To implement this project, it is important to create a mechanism to increase the investment attractiveness of projects for the development of public spaces, as well as identify criteria for the selection of such projects. Within the framework of this article an attempt is made to classify the criteria that must be taken into account when developing public space development projects based on the concept of sustainable development. An algorithm for evaluating the criteria and parameters that would allow assessing the attractiveness of the territory for the implementation of the project for public space development is also given. The article also formulates the main areas of scientific research that would provide a more competent approach to the processes of urban planning and would help to formulate mechanisms for attracting investments in public space development projects, since these are not only of city-planning significance, but can also ensure social integration and support intercultural communication.

Multifunctional basis of urbanization as a modern trend in the development of society

“…In terms of social organization, the city is a concentration of social structures, role functions. In the second case, in terms of culture, the city is a concentration of cultural values, certain norms of human activity, the implementation of which ensures the reproduction and development of society [12].…”