Position of the small cities in the Russian agglomerations - Дипломная работа

Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1. The concept of city agglomeration Chapter 2. Delimitation of city agglomerations Chapter 3. Urban agglomeration as a form of inter-municipal cooperation Chapter 4. Position of the small cities in the Russian agglomerations on the example of the Rostov-on-Don agglomeration Conclusion References Introduction The relevance of the chosen subject is caused by The Сoncept of a territorial reorganization of Russia by means of its division into 20 agglomerations, that was offered by the Government of the Russian Federation and the Russian President Administration in 2007. The idea of allocation of large agglomerations as growth points of Russian economic and social development and its modernization is connected with program provisions of the Concept of long-term social and economic development of Russia for the period till 2020. This tendency is inherent in practically all developed world countries and meets strategic needs of Russia. Federal executive authorities attentively calculate the efficiency of agglomerations. In particular, in the Russian Ministry of Regional Development, according to the Minister, the subject of agglomeration creation for expansion of social and economic development of regions, internal migration of the population is seriously discussed. Besides the centers of aglomerations, 207 cities (the prevailing part is the cities with the population less than 100 thousand inhabitants) and 206 settlements of city type will be a part of 20 agglomerations offered in the long term perspective by the government of the Russian Federation. According to such perspectives, appears a question: what are the advantages and disadvantages for the small cities from their inclusion into the urban agglomerations? What are the prospects for those small cities and settlements of city type which will be included in city agglomerations? What are the positive and negative consequences for the small cities that will be caused by process of aglomerations creation on the territory of the Russian Federation? Various opinions concerning position of the small cities sound from representatives of the Russian Federation government. Among all statements it is also possible to hear that to develop small cities that are out of city agglomerations it is unpromising. Confirmation of such position was in the message of the former Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation E.S. Nabiullina about destinies of the small cities, within the Urbanistic forum Global Decisions for the Russian Cities which took place in Moscow on December 8-9, 2011: Growth of large cities both of Russia and the world goes along with process of the small and average cities decrease. The migratory overflow from the small cities into the big - is the main migratory trend in our country today which we have to consider in the economic, population, infrastructure and social policy … It is clear that to preserve the viability of these entities would be problematic in future decades. Unfortunately, decrease of the small cities is an insuperable global tendency, and we should take it into consideration. There are estimates that over the next 20 years about 15-20 million people will be released from all small Russian cities. Typically, the issues related to the development of agglomerations considered from the perspective of economic development. To ensure high economic growth the country is obliged to go to the development of innovative technologies and post-industrial type of production, and city agglomerations are the centers of these processes and the sources of Russian competitiveness in the global economy. However, the more complex urban agglomeration is - the more complex object of control it becomes and as a result there is a need to consider the aglomeration area as the subject of management, as well as the need to consider the features of administrative relations, especially in the small cities that are included into agglomerations. In this work, the term city agglomeration means - a compact arrangement, grouping of settlements united not only in the territorial sense, but also have a developed industrial, cultural, recreational links. The purpose of the master thesis is to analyse the position of the small cities consisting in city agglomerations, what advantages and what disadvantages such small cities have. city agglomeration municipal cooperation According to a goal the following tasks were designated: 1. to explore the prospects and shortcomings of agglomeration areas; 2. to study criteria of formation and delimitation of city agglomerations in Russia and abroad; 3. to study the relation of municipal authorities to the city aglomeration; 4. to consider what advantages and disadvantages a small city has, while it is a part of the city agglomeration (on the example of the Rostov-on-Don agglomeration); The object of the study is a small city located in the city agglomeration. The subject of the resea