Social infrastructure in the system of human development of the city.

Abstract

The dissertation is devoted to the study of theoretical and methodological principles and the development of scientific and practical recommendations for human development of the city by improving its social infrastructure.

Theoretical and methodological bases of research of the maintenance and the basic components of a category "social infrastructure" are generalized. The existing classifications of forms and types of social infrastructure according to the following groups of features have been improved: territorial-local, sectoral, meaningful, dynamic, financial, consumer and functional approaches. The categorical apparatus of social infrastructure research at the city level, considered as a complex of tangible objects and intangible components (software tools of social orientation, modernization of the municipal administration system, promotional activities aimed at updating the factors that provide a sense of comfort and security), which create conditions for balanced human development in accordance with the current and future needs of the community. The key differences between the social infrastructure of the country and the social infrastructure of the city are identified, the structural components, management methods, subjects of formation, consumers, available feedback mechanisms and others are characteristic of each of them. The factors of formation of the social infrastructure of the city, in particular economic, territorial, material, institutional, social, organizational, demographic and complex of functions which it carries out are defined.