Political strategies of urban development: the crisis of vision

The article deals with the problems of determining the strategic vision of the development of modern cities through the prism of public policy discourse. The author also adds a framework for the spatial development of the city and its socioeconomic context, which now are rarely synchronized when working out strategic planning documents. The author emphasizes the need for a more fundamental study of the classical theories of strategizing and their refraction to determine the future of cities. An important component is a different approach to the classification of territories, considering the practical significance of the refraction of fundamental concepts of the social contract and strategies for involving key stakeholders in the development of territories. The article raises the problem of determining the subjects of the strategic process and provides three models for involving various interested actors in the process of determining the vision of the development of the city with an assessment of the impact of each of the participants on the result. The transition from an industrial-type urban economy to a modern one imposes several obligations on the spatial solutions being worked out as part of ensuring a new quality of life in cities and meeting the needs of citizens as efficiently as possible. To implement this task, the author provides a three-component structure of the Strategic Plan for the development of the city, consisting of three synchronously sequential components: a comprehensive analysis, a public plan for the development of the city and an infrastructure and service model of the development of the city. The article examines the case of the small town of Staraya Rusa (Novgorod region) in the framework of the successful organization of interaction between various internal actors and key stakeholders in the formation of a strategic vision and the main directions of the development of the territory.

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