The Bifurcation Points in Urban Planning (on the Example of the City of Krasnodar)

Abstract

Population growth and the high investment attractiveness of individual Russian cities and territories have provoked a large volume of multi-apartment housing construction. The all-Russian trend of the emergence of high-density residential buildings in new areas of our cities without the necessary transport, social, recreational, and engineering infrastructure, indicates serious flaws in the country's urban planning system, disrupting the commercial (private) and public (public) balance in the development of the urban environment. The lack of high-quality urban planning documentation, political determination and professional (urban planning) approach in managing the development of territories and cities leads to irreparable urban planning errors. Using the example of the city of Krasnodar, the article examines the cause-and-effect relationships between the emergence of fundamental urban planning problems typical of most fast-growing cities in Russia and the positive experience of solving them, changes in urban planning policy, and the formation of a sustainable spatial model for the development of the Krasnodar agglomeration.