«CITIES GRADED F+»

Bulat Stolyarov, general director of IRP Group

RESULTS OF SPECIAL RESEARCH FORUM

Urban Index Russia 2011

12 cities*

More then 300 experts

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MoscowSaint-PetersburgNizhny NovgorodKazanEkaterinburgSamaraChelyabinskRostov-on-DonVolgogradOmskNovosibirskUfa

*с населением более миллиона человек по данным переписи 2010 года

WHOM DID WE ASK ABOUT RUSSIAN CITIES?

WHAT DID WE MEASURE IN THE CITIES?

1. What is going on?

2. What is important for development?

3. Are you satisfied?

А. Habitat

Quality of management

Technical potentialInhabitant Business Tourists

Basic needs Advanced needs

B. Environment for self-sufficiency

С. Environment for social life

D. Environment for carrier and self-development

F. Cultural and aesthetic environment

Quality of social environment

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The largest and better economically developed million cities percept the environment in a more critical way.

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«ХОРОШО,

ИЗМЕНЕНИЙ НЕ НАДО»

«ХОРОШО,

НО НАДО ЛУЧШЕ»

«ПЛОХО, НАДО ВСЁ

МЕНЯТЬ»

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXPERT OPINIONS FROM VARIOUS CITIES?

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Media journalists

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Satisfaction:

Below 50 gradesAbove 50 grades

Main pessimist today is firstly professional community of architects-urban planers, аs well as professional groups whose problems are not widely recognized – business and culture (their indexes got the highest rates).

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«PESSIMISTS»

maх

maх

«OPTIMISTS»

Cultural workersBusinessmen

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IN EXPERT OPINIONS FROM VARIOUS PROFESSIONAL GROUPS?

Our cities can not meet such high level of basic needs yet, so it starts to seem generally acceptable condition of hospitality, culture, education and architecture spheres.

WHAT IS GOING ON?

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No reasons to worry

OVERALL INDEX 2011

Business development– shops, malls, networks

Security

City noise

Problem zones

53,6

Availability of medical services

Conditions for small business

Availability of kindergartens , schools

Ecological state

76,9

Opportunity to find an interesting job

Communication infrastructure75,2

70,9

Culture – theatres, museums, concerts

Visual attractiveness, aesthetics

Quality of higher and professional education

Transport communication with Russia and the

whole world

Regularity and accessibility of utility

Restaurant business

66,8

66,5

66,0

65,7

62,4

Road net, traffic jams 22,3

33,2

36,2

40,3

41,1

41,3

41,6

43,6

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WHAT IS EXPECTED BY EXPERTS IN THE FUTURE?

Under the forecast of experts, the most alarming problems of Russian cities in the future will be the following: 1) utilities infrastructure, 2) quality of high education, 3) business environment. It is indicative that experts evaluate cities touristic attractiveness very low and so far do not consider development of the tourism industry as an important priority.

«BAD AND

UNMPORTANT»

«BAD AND

IMPORTANT»

«GOOD AT THE

PRESENT,

ALARMING IN THE

FUTURE,

IMPORTANT»

«GOOD AND

UNIMPORTANT,

WILL DEVELOP ON

ITS OWN»

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For the present Russian cities are not of much attractiveness from the point of view of leisure time industry and they have a weighty luggage of unresolved strategic challenges in functional development.

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Highly qualified specialists

Creative people

Scientists, researchers

Workers without special professional skills

Russian tourists

Foreign tourists

WHO FINDS RUSSIAN CITIES CONVINIENT?

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WHAT CITIES AND FOR WHOM ARE THE MOST HOSPITABLE?

Saint-Petersburg

Rostov-on-Don

Kazan

Moscow

Ekaterinburg

Novosibirsk

Ufa

Nizhny Novgorod

Samara

Chelyabinsk

Omsk

Volgograd

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The positive factors that are pushing assessment of business climate of n cities up are: availability of realty for business and availability of adequate human resources. Negative factors for business environment of the city are: lack of qualified construction sites and general inability of city authorities to work with the tools of PPP.

COMFORT ZONE

DISCOMFORT ZONE

0 100

Mechanisms of state and municipal project

Sites for new constructions

Availability of credits

Rent spaces for offices, trade

Opportunity to find employees of required

qualification in the city

WHAT IS CONVINIENT AND INCONVINIENT FOR BUSINESS COMMUNITIES IN RUSSIAN CITIES?

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ДЛЯ КОГО КОМФОРТНЫ РОССИЙСКИЕ ГОРОДА?

Advantage of the Russian cities tourist services , according to the expert opinions, is primarily a variety of services, cafes, restaurants. Disadvantage is lack of hotels and hostel. The dispersion of the situation estimates regarding the hotel fund is huge - from almost 70 points in developed Kazan and Yekaterinburg and up to 25 points in the depressed Volgograd.

Convenience of navigation in the city

Hotels, hostels, short-term renting

Help, information, city web-site

City tours, museum excursions

Citizen attitude towards tourists

Cafes, restaurants and etc. for tourists

WHAT IS INCONVINIENT FOR TOURISTS IN RUSSIAN MILLION CITIES?

Most of the hopes the experts lay on the management progress: creation of a competent strategy and master plan, fight against corruption and improvement of the management team quality. In the civic vector of improvement the experts have much weaker hope. The need for technological improvement of municipal economy the experts from different cities, regardless of their status, evaluate approximately equally, the spread of opinions is extremely small.

QUALITY OF SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT

MANAGMENT

TECHNOLOGIES

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Improvement of the city management system, selection of managing personnel

Developing a competent strategy, urban-planning policy

Fight against corruption in administration, municipal economy

Support of civic initiatives and activities from the bottom

Development of cooperation with other cities, regions

Education of patriotism for the city and culture of behavior in the city

Technical equipment of municipal economy

74,2

80,4

78,0

60,2

64,6

67,9

69,0

73,4

64,6

62,9

WHAT SHALL BE DONE?

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WHAT SHAL BE DONE FIRST ACCORDING TO THE GOVERNMENT OPINION?

The government evaluates its competence quite high (except anti-corruption index); in their opinion they have to do something with culture and attitude of citizens to their city.

«BAD AND

UNIMPORTANT»

«GOOD AND

UNIMPORTATN»

«BAD AND

IMPORTANT»

«GOOD AND

IMPORTANT»

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Representatives of business, in their turn, are much more critical regarding modern urban management evaluation. High priority of managerial factors conforms to the statement "everything that is important; is in bad condition now"

WHAT SHAL BE DONE FIRST ACCORDING TO THE BUSINESS OPINION?

«BAD AND

UNIMPORTANT»

«GOOD AND

UNIMPORTANT»

«BAD AND

IMPORTANT»

While society is not capable to fully participate in the formation of the vector of the city environment development, in the vast majority of large cities the main initiator and catalyst of all innovations and changes in the urban environment shall be top-down command structure.

WHICH MODEL IS WORKING TODAY?«BOTTOM UP» vs «TOP DOWN»

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Bottom Up(social initiative)

Top Down(government initiative)

Explanation of the drawing

The following factors show efficiency of the “initiative from the bottom: 1) safety in the city, reduction

of crime; 2) arrangement of open public spaces for communication and recreation; 3) conditions

small business and enterprises development; 4) transport-logistic links with other cities and

countries; 5) support of civil initiatives, "activity from the bottom".

As signs of the model “initiative from the top” were selected such factors as factors of environment

development: 1) building social accommodations; 2) preparation of sites for certain functions and

attraction of investors; 3) development of road networks, construction of interchanges, car parks on

state financing; 4) improving of city management system, selection of management personnel; 5)

development of "strategies from the top".

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«How many socially active people are there in your city in comparison with other Russian cities?

Ability of the public to influence the activities of the authorities as to different groups of respondents estimation:

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Honesty, resistance to corruption

WHAT IS LACKING IN PROFESSIONALISM OF OFFICIALS TODAY?

Qualification, professionalism

Skills of strategic planning

Ability to negotiate with federal, regional authorities

Skills to solve prompt tasks, urgent problems

Skills of public policy, communication with citizens

Creativity, originality of thinking

Skills of work with large investors

Experience in business, entererprising skills

The most negative estimation of a discrepancy between the desired and the actual situation recorded by the indicator, characterizing the integrity and honesty of officials. Also, in the opinion of the respondents, the city officials lack qualification and professionalism, creativity and originality of thinking – qualities that are opposite to the business skills (as on the data of the correlation analysis).

Needed

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DO MODERN STRATEGIC DOCUMENTS MEET CURRENT NEEDS OF CITIES?

Strategy of the socio-economic city development

City master plan

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ANSWERES OF PROFESSIONAL GROUPS

Strategy of the socio-economic city development

City master plan

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In the opinion of experts, we don’t draw business actively enough into the processes of strategies and the master plans development (all cities, except St. Petersburg, agree with this assessment), continuing to forecast its development and annually updating these projections; and public (the highest negative assessments in all cities), deciding for them what is important for quality of life and comfort of the city environment.

WHAT IS THE MAIN REASON FOR THE POOR QUALITY OF STRATEGIC DOCUMENTS?

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IMPLEMENTED PROJECTS THAT MAKE THE RUSSIAN MILLION CITIES FEEL PROUD: SOFT vs HARD

The list of projects, named by experts, included a lot of projects in the areas which experts do not consider to be priorities: exhibitions, festivals, navigation system for tourists, construction of cultural facilities, business centers, etc.