Reality city
If you look at things soberly, then in the Russian conditions the described ideal picture may not be realized (after all, it is, at least, completely incomprehensible so far how you can organize an effective dialogue between society and the authorities, come to marketing thinking and a social contract). In conditions when there is no strategy in the development of the city, problems must be solved tactically. It becomes obvious that the process of improving the habitat cannot be stopped before the development of common goals..
Tactically, the issues facing municipalities (and especially large ones) are clear. As we believe, there are only six of them: a fund of emergency and dilapidated housing with obsolete houses dating back to the 60s and 70s; inefficient road and transport infrastructure; relocation of industrial enterprises outside the city; restructuring of the centers of municipalities; rational sealing building; compliance with all urban planning standards.
None of the items listed are problem-free even on their own. Let’s start with compliance with the rules. So, recently, the scourge of megalopolises is construction on lands that are given for individual housing and multi-apartment three-storey buildings. Such buildings do not require state expertise of projects, therefore, they are built by unscrupulous developers without any supervision..