Local territories development as the basis of citys spatial development regulation

Spatial development is based on understanding of a cityas unities of material and social space of city communities life activity, changes in each can be initiated by representatives of variousgroups of interests (local authorities, investors, builders, owners of land, citizens). That is why it is necessary to develop mechanisms ofcoordination and regulation of interaction within local city territories. The conceptual basis of the research is the socially focused approachto management of the spatial development of the city, defined as town-arrangement. Unlike the widely applied directive(town-planning) and business focused (town-regulating) approaches the concept town-arrangement assumes introduction of correspondingmethods of analysis and mechanisms of regulation of spatial development which are not reduced to building activity regulationsolely. The toolkit of the town-planning technical analysis and highest and best use analysis, used by local authorities in supportof individual investment projects, connects spatial development with achievement of commercial benefit by land proprietors. Townregulating considers social results (employment growth, increase of availability of services, favourable changes in social composition oflocal residents, their incomes and other social and economic aspects of viability of local communities) as an external, attendant effect ofreal estate development. As a result, spatial development is accompanied by infill construction and causes a number of social problems:differentiation of the social space, a descending market filtration of habitation, negative neighbourhood effect, etc. Methods and mechanismsof town-arrangement are socially oriented. They are aimed at creation of favourable conditions of life activity of city communitywithin local city territories. We specified the economic definition of a local city territory which is defined as a community unitedby interests of daily life activity (local labour migration, household service, acquisition of consumer goods and services) and cohabitation.We offer the citys spatial organization analysis based on the synthesis of methods (economic, sociological, qualimetrical, cartographical,of visual supervision), which allows revealing both individual preferences, and the general interests of the local society representatives.Management of a spatial development of the city should be based on the model of socially focused development of the localcity territories, assuming social and economic, legal and organizational mechanisms of management of their development on the basis ofpartnership of various economic subjects in interests of development of local territorial communities.

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