Challenges and opportunities for urban agglomerations in the twenty-first century

14 November 2024

10:00 – 12:00

Plenary session

Hall 1

Questions:

Demographic processes in agglomeration areas. Interaction between the centre and periphery.
Territorial development of agglomerations, typical problems - imbalance of housing construction, infrastructure problems.
Legal regulation of territorial development - imperfection of the legislative framework (Town Planning Code vs Federal Law 172, Town Planning Code vs Land Code),
The system of social facilities in the agglomeration territory - deficit in the agglomeration cores and surplus in the periphery.
System of administrative management of agglomeration - coordination councils vs centralisation of management.
Modern methodology of drafting documents on territorial and socio-economic development of agglomerations - use of ‘big data’, use of mathematical modelling, structure and format of documents

Speakers

Rustam Nurgaliyevich Minnikhanov

Head (Rais) of Tatarstan
Nikita Evgenyevich Stasishin

Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation
Alexander Valentinovich Sokolov

Governor of the Kirov region
Dmitry Ivanovich Krasnov

Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Chuvash Republic - Minister of Economic Development and Property Relations of the Chuvash Republic
Ilsur Raisovich Metshin

Mayor of Kazan
Oleg Dmitrievich Grigoriev

Director of the Institute of Spatial Planning of the Republic of Tatarstan
Wang Jide (China)

Chairman, People's Political Consultative Conference of Xi'an City
Omar Nagati (Egypt)

Urban Research, Training and Environmental Studies Laboratory of the Cairo Cluster
Waqas Elahi

Deputy Director, Directorate General of Trade Organisations, Ministry of Commerce, Pakistan