SOCIAL SPHERE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN TERRITORIES
SOCIAL SPHERE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN TERRITORIES

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of social services quality analysis in urban areas, as an important factor of sustainable development of the urban environment. The social sphere is the basis for effective human life, the lack of attention to social problems in the formation of strategic priorities of urbanized territories development can lead to poor health, increased losses of working time and reduce the competitiveness of regions in the inter-regional mobility of labour. During the study the factors of formation of favourable social sphere of the city are examined, the approaches to their analysis and evaluation are distinguished, and they are determined by the degree of their influence on sustainable development of urban territories. As results of the research in this paper, there are a system of indicators of social tension, taking into account the experience of an estimation of social welfare of the school of the University of Cambridge, and reflecting the attitude of the population to their needs and existing social institutions, as well as recommendations on the determination of threshold values of the respective indicators. The proposed system of indicators allows to analyse social efficiency and to make an objective choice of directions and projects of city territories development, taking into account their social significance.

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