International Conference
«Factors and Tools of Metropolitan Regions Development»

21-23 October 2013

Head organiser – National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics)

Co-organiser– ICSER «Leontief Centre»

SUMMARY

The main objective of the conference is to study foreign and Russian experience in research, modeling and design of the development of modern metropolitan regions. Projects of development in Greater Paris, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and other larger world cities will be presented in the reports and speeches of Russian and foreign colleagues. Experience in implementing large transport and infrastructure projects that can have significant long-term impact on socio-economic development of metropolitan regions will also be addressed.

Why some metropolitan areas are progressing more successfully than others? What is their role in the development of institutional factors, human capital, transportation and infrastructure, industrial specialization? It is of great practical and scientific interest to find it out and the discussion is proposed to formulate conclusions and suggestions for approaches to modeling, assessing and design of cities, the most effective policies to increase and maintain the global competitiveness of metropolitan regions.

PROGRAMME

Day I. 21 October 2013, Monday, the Park Inn Pribaltiyskayahotel

FIRST PLENARY SESSIONof the Forum 1000-1215

Legal Basis for Planning: what change the Law on State Strategic Planning

(conference hall Blue 4+ Blue 5)

Coffee-break1215-1230

Session 1, 12:30 – 14:00,conference hall Blue 2

The Development of Greater Paris: research, projects, feasibility studies

Moderator:Jacques-François Thisse,Greater Paris Corporation, Scientific Council of Economists, Chairman; HSE Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics, Academic Supervisor.

Reports:

The New Grand Paris Project: History and Context

Etienne Guyot, Greater Paris Corporation, Chairman of the Executive Board

The Challenges of Economic and Social Development of the Metropolitan Area of Paris

Jean-Claude Prager, Greater Paris Corporation, Chief Economist

The Urban Context and Impact of the Project

Catherine Barbé, Greater Paris Corporation, Director of Strategic and Urban Affairs

Discussion

Lunch 1400-1500

Session 2, 15:00 – 17:00, conference hall Blue 2

Development of Moscow: key features of the strategy

for socio-economic and spatial development

Moderator:Leonid Limonov, ICSER «Leontief Centre», Director-Coordinator for Research Programmes

Reports:

Moscowagglomeration- a visionof development(on the materialsof the Big-Moscow competition)
Maxim Perov,NIPIGenplana (Master Plan) of Moscow, Centerfor Regional Studies, Director; Member of the Union ofArchitects ofRussia
Strategic Goals of Moscow Development: international benchmarking
VladimirKlimanov, Institutefor Public Finance Reform, Director
Some aspects of thedevelopment of theGreaterMoscow
IurriiPerelygin, Institute Lengiprogor, General Director

Discussion

Coffee-break1700-1715

Session 3, 17:15 – 19:15, conference hall Blue 2

Cities and Metropolitan Areas of Russia

Moderator: Leonid Limonov, ICSER «Leontief Centre», Director-Coordinator for Research Programmes

Reports:

Factors and Trendsof Big Russian Cities Development

Natalia Zubarevich,Independent Institute for Social Policy, Director of Regional Program

Evolution of Urban System in Russia: Dynamics, Structure and Factors

EvgeniyaKolomak, IEIE SB RAS, Head of sector

UrbanAgglomerationsof the Ural Region: insearch of an effectivedevelopment model

IrinaTurgel, Ural Institute of PresidentialAcademy, Deputy Director, DepartmentHead

Discussion

Reception1930

Day II

22 October 2013, Thuesday,the Park Inn Pribaltiyskaya hotel

SECOND PLENARY SESSION of the Forum 0930-1130

Strategic and Spatial Planning: Policy of Multipolar Development (conference hall 4+5)

Speeches (to be refined)

Agglomerations as the Growth Points

Sergej Nazarov, Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, Deputy Minister

The Development of the Ring of Urban Agglomerations in the Central Macroregion of Russia

Vladimir Gruzdev, Governor of the Tula Region

Strategic Projects of the Republic of Tatarstan: Formation of Metropolitan Region, uniting the Growing Points of the Republic

Ildar Khalikov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan

The New Grand Paris Project: History and Context

Guyot Etienne, Greater Paris Corporation, Chairman of the Executive Board

Efficiency of Investments in Transport Infrastructure

Mikhail Dmitriev, Center of Strategic Research, President

Strategy of Development of the City of Samara as a core of agglomeration

Dmitrii Azarov, Head of the city of Samara

Coffee-break1130-1145

Session 4, 11-45 – 13-30, conference hall Blue 2

The development of Greater Paris: research, projects, feasibility studies

Moderators:

  • Jacques-François Thisse, Greater Paris Corporation, Scientific Council of Economists, Chairman; HSE Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics, Academic Supervisor
  • Leonid Limonov, ICSER «Leontief Centre», Director-Coordinator for Research Programmes

Reports:

The Management of the Grand Paris Express Project

Didier Bense, Greater Paris Corporation, Executive General Manager

The Social and Economic Impact of the Project

Emile Quinet, Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussees, Emeritus Professor

Discussion

Lunch 1330-1430

Session 5,14-30 – 16-15, conference hall Blue 2

Improving the Competitiveness of the Regional Centres (international practices)

Moderator – Boris Zhikharevich, ICSER «Leontief Centre», Resource Centre for Strategic Planning, Director

Reports:

Modernization of metropolitan regions and their infrastructures as a new factor of urban development : the experience of Japan and Asia , the message to Russia
Iwao Ohashi , Nomura Research Institute, Moscow branch, General Director
Managing the development of the Metropolitan Washington Region
Geraldine Gardner , the German Marshall Fund, Urban and Regional Policy Program, Director,
Olga Gerasimova , ICSER ​​"Leontief Centre", Researcher
The integration of strategic and spatial planning on the example of Germany (project Ruhr agglomeration)
Pavel Spirin , OAO " NIIP Gradostroitelstva (Urban Planning) , Deputy Director

Discussion

Coffee-break1615-1630

Session 6,16-30 – 18-15, conference hall Blue 2

St. Petersburg and Moscow: approaches to studying and justification

of the development of metropolitan regions

Moderator:Vladimir Knyaginin, Center for Strategic «North-West», Director

Opening address
Tatiana Timofeeva, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Economic Policy and Strategic Planning of St. Petersburg
Transformation of the "gray zone" into the zone of development: transportand communication approach
Christian Horn, "Rethink" (office of the built environment, Paris), Director
Mikhail Petrovich, “Laboratoriya Gradoplanirovaniya” (Laboratory for Urban Planning), General Director
Polycentric metropolitan areas of Moscow and St. Petersburg – real-time or only strategic perspective?
Anton Finogenov , Institute of Territoriall Planning " Urbanika", Director General
Green Spaces in Moscow : the Evolution of the Management System
Oksana Klimanova , Moscow State University, Department of Geography, Associate Professor.

Discussion

1900 Cocktail

Day III

23 October, Wednesday,ICSER «Leontief Centre»

Session 7,10-00 – 12-00, conference-hall

St. Petersburg – Analysis of the Strategic Planning Experience

Moderator – Irina Karelina, ICSER «Leontief Centre», General Director

Reports:

Strategic Planning in St. Petersburg in 1995-2003: analysis of the methodology evolution
Boris Zhikharevich , ICSER «Leontief Centre», Resource Center for Strategic Planning, Director
Strategy for Socio- Economic Development of St. Petersburg till 2030: key conceptsand priorities
Leonid Limonov , ICSER «Leontief Centre», Director - Coordinator of Research Programmes

St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region: analysis of the problems for the metropolitan area development
Artur Batchayev , ICSER «Leontief Centre», Head of Strategic Planning Department

Discussion

Coffee-break

Session 8,12-15 – 14-15, conference-hall

The role of the Kazan agglomeration in the strategy for the development

of the Republic of Tatarstan

Moderator:Leonid Limonov, ICSER «Leontief Centre», Director-Coordinator for Research Programmes

Reports:

Methodological approaches to the Strategy for the Development of the Republic of Tatarstan till 2030
Vladimir Gritskikh, State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan

Potential and Prospects of the metropolitan region of KANCh - Kazan, Almetievsk, Naberezhnye Chelny
Mikhail Petrovich, “Laboratoriya Gradoplanirovaniya” (Laboratory for Urban Planning), General Director
Socio-cultural characteristics of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Labor Market of the Kazan agglomeration
Victor Voronkov, Centre for Independent Social Research, President

Discussion

Closing Session: Summing-up of the conference, 14-15 – 15-00

Moderators:

  • Jacques-François Thisse, Greater Paris Corporation, Scientific Council of Economists, Chairman; HSE Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics, Academic Supervisor
  • Leonid Limonov, ICSER «Leontief Centre», Director-Coordinator for Research Programmes

Summing-up of the sessions

Discussion

Closing lunch: 15-00 – 17-00