Socio-economic development of Far Eastern cities: Demographic aspect in modern master plans

About the author:

Raisa N. Shpakova, Cand. Sc. (Geo.), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Regional Management and National Politics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) — Branch in Odintsovo, Moscow, Russia
production2003@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9916-0113

Abstract:

The study is devoted to assessing the compliance of the strategic sections provisions of the master plans of the Far Eastern cities in the Russian Federation, which are important for solving the demographic problems of the macroregion, with the relevant provisions of existing strategic planning documents, as well as identifying the features of the master plans as strategic documents with a demographic component. It has been identified that the strategic focus on increasing the main demographic indicators, declared in the master plans of the Far Eastern cities, corresponds to the state strategic and conceptual guidelines. In the absence of direct demographic policy measures in the master plans, no significant effects should be expected in the coming years, and some targets in some cases (for example, an increase in life expectancy by 8–9 years or population growth of more than 30% in the remaining 6 years of the plans’ implementation) appear to be overestimated. In the array of events provided for in the master plans, there are significant imbalances in the scale of these events and in the degree of their detail. It is considered advisable to establish general rules for the presentation of objects in master plans in cases of attracting federal funding.

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