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Srategy on a human scale INNOVATIVE TOOLS OF URBAN ANALYSIS AND INSTRUMENTS OF PARTICIPATORY PLANNING IN DEVELOPING MUNICIPAL STRATEGY IN UFA (RUSSIA) ACCORDING TO THE “GUIDE FOR MUNICIPALITIES” PREPARED BY UN-HABITAT, URBAN STRATEGIC PLANNING DETERMINES THE DIRECTION OF DEVELOPMENT OF A CITY OR URBAN AREA, IN THE CONTEXT OF ITS CURRENT PROFILE AND SWOT ANALYSIS. THIS APPROACH HELPS THE CITY TO RESPOND TO FAST-MOVING EVENTS, TO MANAGE CHANGE AND TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE.
Team: Olga Sarapulova Aleksandra Katasonova Mariya Melnikova Aleksey Melnikov Narkas Khairullina Darya Dolgova Alina Yagfarova Ekaterina Andreeva Oleg Hmarin
Introduction
Project Approach
Nowadays urban strategic planning in Russian Federation is announced as a key tool for creating a high quality of life in its cities. It is acknowledged that most of the strategic documents are developed behind the closed doors of Municipal Administration with the support of the invited consultants to shape The Vision of the future by analyzing available socio-economic indicators and predicting emerging trends. Such strategies have difficulties with implementation due to a low level of involvement of key actors.
The project is elaborated into two dimensions. Urban analysis allowed to understand existing trends and to formulate the kit of urban policies for urban development. While participatory planning with stakeholders allowed verifying and validating the results of analysis, on the other hand, involvement of stakeholders gave opportunity to drive projects that will implement the strategic projects into reality. The main challenge in formulating the Vision was to keep the balance between urban analysis in a big scale and information received from citizens at a local level.
The purpose of the project “Strategy in a human scale” is to formulate The Vision of urban development that will drive transformative strategic projects through the use of new technologies and activation of hidden potential for collaboration between various stakeholders and authorities. The Project Background An action research project “Strategy on a human scale” was developed as a part of Strategy Ufa-2030. This is an ongoing project which was initiated by local urban activists and was crowdfunded by local enterprises. This project became the precedent of a bottom-up approach for urban planning. Project activities were carried out and managed by Forum UrbanBairam as a Municipal Planning Team in partnership with Architecture and Urban Planning Department. Researches were assisted by the pull of highly professional international and Russian experts1.
Luca Guala, Paolo Dejana (MSysLab, Italy), Aleksandr Antonov (The Institute of General Plan of Moscow region), Aleksandr Puzanov (The Institute of urban economics), Oleg Baevskiy (Genplan Insitute of Moscow), Analytical Center “Expert”, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
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