Moscow-Paris: Parallels and Perpendiculars of Spatial Planning

Abstract

Over the past decade, many countries have undergone significant changes in the system of territorial planning, the composition and content of the main documents are being transformed, new tools for regulating urban planning activities appear as management objects become more complex. The latest changes in the territorial planning system in France are of the greatest interest for Russian urban planning practice. France, like the Russian Federation, is a presidential Republic and a classic representative of codified law.

The article compares the composition and content of modern territorial planning documents in France and the Russian Federation. The new Paris Urban Local Plan (2019) and the regional development scheme (the SDRIF 2030) for Ile-de- France Region (2013) together with the Law on Greater Paris are analyzed as examples of spatial development strategies of the largest metropolitan cities of Europe comparable in many aspects to Moscow and Moscow region. The higher-priority directions and urban development zones of the largest European metropolitan areas (Moscow and Paris), the growing importance of the integrated development of the transport infrastructure and consideration of environmental aspects in providing high living standards for the population are considered.

Formation and implementation of balanced urban planning policy, the basis of which is continuous monitoring: a continuous technological cycle of justification, development, adoption, monitoring of the implementation and updating of territorial planning documents - remains one of the main challenges of our time.