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