Do we Need Urban Shrinkage to Become Smarter Planners? The Masterplan for Novoshakhtinsk

Batunova, Elena and Trukhachev, Sergey and Khiteva, Elena (2020) Do we Need Urban Shrinkage to Become Smarter Planners? The Masterplan for Novoshakhtinsk. SHAPING URBAN CHANGE – Livable City Regions for the 21st Century. Proceedings of REAL CORP 2020, 25th International Conference on Urban Development, Regional Planning and Information Society. pp. 1099-1105. ISSN 2521-3938

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Abstract

The urban planning transition in Russia has been following the way from the so-called command-administrative system to a new one which should be more democratic, market-oriented, more adequate andcorresponding better to the current needs of the cities and regions. However, since the planning system is an element of the political system and is characterized by the same disadvantages such as lack of the local independency and resources, weak capacities of local authorities, absence of opportunity to implement the specific planning addressing local issues that are not into the national planning agenda. A silent but wide-spread process of urban shrinkage affects most of the Russian cities that are deprived of a possibility to develop new approaches to planning that could help them to confront this challenge and very few cases of the appropriate policy development appeared in the country. The present paper explores an example of aplanning experiment in a former mining city Novoshakhtinsk in southern Russia that is developing a master-plan aiming at addressing challenges provoked by urban shrinkage.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: shrinking city, mining city, depopulation, urban planning, masterplan, Russia
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Depositing User: REAL CORP Administrator
Date Deposited: 04 Feb 2021 11:37
Last Modified: 04 Feb 2021 11:37
URI: http://repository.corp.at/id/eprint/682

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