Marketing i Menedžment Innovacij (Mar 2013)
Urboclusters as innovative regulation structure of urbanization processes in the region
Abstract
The aim of the article. In the article the concept of urbacluster as innovative regulation structure of urbanization processes in the region is substantiated. Basing on the peculiarities of the modern interpretation of clusterization processes in territorial public systems and taking into account actual tendencies of the urbanization development in Ukraine, a system of urbanizational courses regulation is proposed. List of main regulators of urbanizational processes in the region is considered.The results of the analysis. Basing on the peculiarities of the modern interpretation of clusterization processes in the territorial public systems and taking into account barren elaboration, both in domestic and in foreign science, we realize that their aim is to optimize the management of urbanizational processes in the region, especially in the design phase. We suggest to put into circulation the concept of urbocluster.According to the author, urbocluster is a combination of territorial forms of settlement and economic activities, source of innovations, including specific urban lifestyle and growth generator of modern urban agglomerations. In our opinion, urboclusters should be the main subjects of urbanizational processes regulation in the region. The main mover of the development of modern social urboclusters is actually social urbanization as the expansion of the ways of urban life in the direction to the external peripheral zones, and within the cluster, which, especially in the case of the big city presence in its core is characterized by the significant internal heterogeneity.It is necessary to distinguish two polar structures in the sphere of urbanization processes urboclusters and peripheral zones. Characteristic features of the first ones are the presence of one or more cores centers of growth and innovation, and in the second differentiation and traditionalism. In the peripheral zones there is the domination of rural type of settlement which is unlikely to the urban type, characterized by the deconcentration of population and the networks of farm businesses.Conclusions and directions of further researches. Thus, the innovative clusterization nature in urbanizational processes determines the actuality of theoretical and methodological foundations of relevant researches and the development of approaches for solving applied problems of urban development at the regional level. At the same time, basing on perspective and predicted nature of urboclusters, it should be taken into account the planning of project and strategic documents as sectoral and integrated regional structures. In the perspective need to reform the system of administrative-territorial structure and to optimize the management of the relevant urboclusters can arise. Though, the economic importance of innovative structures of regulating urbanization processes in the region is directly dependent on the effectiveness of regulators usage. Theelaboration of influence mechanisms is a promising sphere of scientific research.
