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Regional Economy and Spatial Development: Critical Notes

The article contains a review of the book «Regional economics and spatial developments This edition is a new major milestone in the Russian educational literature, and it will certainly be popular among teachers and students in the related specialties both at the economics departments and at the area of state and municipal management. At the same time, the paper makes a number of comments and gives a few suggestions (e.g. no special section devoted to modeling spatial development of the country as a system of interacting regions, insufficient reflection of the domestic experience of regional and interregional modeling; not enough criticism when actual conditions of spatial development and regional policy in Russia are presented) which may be taken into account in the next edition of the book

Seliverstov V. Ye. [email protected]

Keywords: regional economy regional policy regional policy diagnostics spatial planning mechanisms of development regional economics spatial development regional policy

Project approach to spatial planning applicable at the level of an administrative area

The paper proposes a new scheme of spatial planning applicable to an administrative area, i.e. by selecting a set of investment projects, each of them affecting the use of land. At present the spatial planning at the level of an administrative area is «bottom-up» since there is no a national system of spatial planning yet. The paper offers new rales for demographic forecasting under a project approach suggested, and discusses some criteria which local communities or local authorities may apply if they want to reject undesirable projects.

Voronov Iu. P. [email protected]

Dolnakov A. P. [email protected]

Keywords: spatial planning land use investment projects municipal level selection of projects selection criteria the Altai region demographic prognoses touristic zones