Cities of North-West Federal District: the state of urban development sector and its main challenges

Abstract

This article analyzes the compliance of planned and actual results of the implementation of the first phase of territorial planning documents of towns, medium and big cities in the North-West Federal District of Russia. Particular attention is paid to the deformation of forecasting scenario for prospective population in researched cities and to identification of factors that contributed to this deformation. The authors propose a variant of preparation of territorial planning documents in a search for effective tools for urban development of the North-West Federal District of Russia.