scholarly journals The Role of the Service Sector in the Socioeconomic Development of Moscow

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-249
Author(s):  
Yulia G. Strashnova ◽  
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Lyudmila F. Strashnova ◽  
Irina E. Makarova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Service Economy ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

The article shows the determining role of the service sector in the economic and social development of Moscow. The dynamics of changes in the share of services in the structure of employment, the general building fund development, the production of gross regional product, the income and expenditure of the city budget are examined. The levels of the service sector development in Moscow and abroad in terms of the share of the service economy in the structure of employment and the production of gross regional product are compared. It is concluded that the service sector development in Moscow corresponds to that in the economically developed foreign countries. The service sector affects the social development of society, the growth of human potential, determines the lifestyle of the population, the model of consumer behavior. A developed service sector creates a comfortable urban environment, provides a high quality of life. The role of the service sector in the socioeconomic development of Moscow is studied. The growth of the share of the services economy in the structure of the socioeconomic complex is revealed; it is typical for the stage of transition to post-industrial development. The relationship between the dynamics and structure of the service sector, the formation of a new model of employment, life quality improvement, and human capital development is determined. The main components of the quality of life that determine the needs for the development and placement of service facilities in the city are considered. The role of the service sector in the socioeconomic development of Moscow for accounting in forecasting, design and management decisions in the development of social, administrative and business facilities in the city, the creation of jobs in the service economy in the transition to the knowledge economy and information technology is assessed. The research is carried out on the basis of official statistics (Rosstat, Mosgorstat), branch departments and directorates of Moscow. Statistical, analytical, sociological methods of research, expert assessments, analogies, field survey, mathematical modeling are used. The tendency is noted of the increasing role of the service sector in the socioeconomic development of Moscow, characteristic of the transition to the post-industrial type of economy: the growth of the share of the service economy in the structure of the economic complex, the growing impact on the level and quality of life, the reproduction of human capital, the formation of a comfortable environment. The tasks and main directions of the development of social infrastructure, an important component of the service sector, are formulated. The role of the service sector in the socioeconomic development of Moscow consists in (1) influencing the economic growth, the structure of the city’s economic complex, the increase in the share of the service economy, and qualitative changes in the industries that are characteristic of the transition to post-industrial development, and (2) in influencing the social development of the city: maintaining the reproduction of human potential, improving the life quality of the population. In recent years, the service sector, including its most important component – social infrastructure, is becoming a priority sector of the economy, which corresponds to global trends in the transition to a knowledge economy.

The Role of Culture in City Branding

2017 ◽  
pp. 1125-1142
Author(s):  
Selda Uca Ozer
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
International Strategy ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
The City

City branding means all types of image development studies for a city in order to attract more visitors, raise the quality of life and awareness of the city and provide development etc. Today, the increasing competition among the cities has made city branding a necessity. There are different strategies implemented for city branding. The mostly used strategy among those is the culture-focused branding studies. Culture has a critical importance for city branding and it is used as an international strategy for the economic, social and environmental renovation of cities. Marketing the cultural city sources and activities in an efficient way and branding the city accordingly have become increasingly important. In this chapter, the role and importance of culture which is one of the most important strategies used in city branding has been discussed in detail. Also, the cases of cultural cities which become successfully different from their rivals with their cultural heritage and the strategies implemented in these cases have been analyzed.

THE ROLE OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SUSTAINABLE STRATEGY

2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (0) ◽  
pp. 55-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Brdulak
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The City

To provide a good level of the quality of life of the city inhabitants, it is indispensable to follow sustainable development strategy, allowing to create social capital. This is important especially for local authorities, which should govern society by cooperating with them. Therefore, the main purpose of the article is to present implementation process and its conditions of the sustainable development strategy within the structures of local government units in Poland. Analysis is based on the authoress’ own qualitative research conducted in four voivodships in the Southern of Poland.

scholarly journals Role of the Multimodal Centre in Shaping Sustainable Mobility and Quality of Life in a Medium-sized City – Nysa Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (186) ◽  
pp. 97-110
Author(s):  
Maja Fojud ◽  
Artur Fojud
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Public Space ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Basic Solution ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
The City

The article presents the results of the evaluation of the relationship between the way of shaping public space related to ensuring sustainable mobility in the city and the experiences of users influencing the perceptible quality of life. The assessment was carried out for one of the medium-sized cities, which was included in the list of cities threatened with exclusion. The subject of the evaluation was the city multimodal centreorganised around the railway station in Nysa. The aim of the research was to identify a selected, small group of key challenges and recommendations aimed at improving user experience in using a multimodal centre in the city. The article highlights the role of service infrastructure (stops, stations, transfer centres) in the ecosystem of sustainable urban mobility. Each element of this ecosystem (designed in accordance with the idea of universal design) can have a significant impact on the improvement of the perceptible (declared) quality of life in the city, if the applied solutions positively influence the user’s experience (including the sense of comfort and care). The authors focused on the current state of play in order to identify the key areas of intervention needed to improve the user experience in using the multimodal centre in a small and medium sized city. Attention was paid not only to the aspect of infrastructure accessibility, but also to the relations between urban, architectural and engineering solutions in the context of their impact on the assessment of the multimodal centre in terms of its usefulness in three dimensions: functional, rational and perceptible. The summary outlines the process of achieving from the basic solution standard to interoperability. This knowledge will allow better decision making in the planning of user-oriented projects in the city. This may be of particular importance when the conscious objective of the action is to achieve the level of interoperability expected by users of facilities such as, inter alia, a multimodal centre, which is one element of an urban public space with a significant impact on the quality of life of the citizen. Keywords: user experience, quality of life, universal design, interoperability, sustainable mobility

scholarly journals Toward Urban Spaces of Quality: Through the Existing Urban Legislations in Egypt

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
Haitham El Sharnouby
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Urban Quality Of Life ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Government ◽  
Egyptian Government ◽  
The City

Egyptian urban spaces suffer from a chaos that is the result of crowded and disordered pedestrian sidewalks, streets and shop signage. This chaos creates a negative effect on, both, the image of the city and the quality of life within these urban spaces. Many legislations and regulations in Egypt attempted to deal with these issues. Similarly, the Egyptian government established many organizations and authorities in order to deal with these issues with little success. The National Organization of Urban Harmony (NOUH) is one of those organizations established by the government to take the responsibility of dealing with pedestrian sidewalk and shops’ signage while the municipality deals with road occupations. These organizations should perform their responsibilities through the Egyptian legislations. The research at hand aims to find a solution to that particular problem which has influenced the quality of the street and its reflection to the quality of life as result. In order to find a solution, the research attempts to find a mechanism to boost the role of shop signage as an element of urban spaces in order to emphasize street quality. Thus, the research well be divided into four parts: part one reviews the quality of urban spaces and the meaning of its terms while part two reviews the concept of the quality of life and the relation between the quality of life and urban spaces. Part three demonstrates the urban quality of life through tangible and intangible approaches. Finally, part four reviews the Egyptian legislations that deal with research issues and attempts to find the difficulties that faced when enforcing laws. Finally, the research conclusion illustrates the most important issues in the research and their proposed solutions.

scholarly journals The Changing Role of the Service Sector in an Innovation-Oriented Economy

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Gryczka
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
General Level ◽  
Service Economy ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Innovation Processes

Abstract The development of a service economy and the more and more noticeable phenomenon of servicization have become inseparable elements in the evolution of the modern economy. The goal of this paper is to analyse the impact of servicization on selected economies, both in terms of GDP and employment structure, as well as on changes in foreign trade. The secondary, but still important aim is to examine the relationship between servicization and innovation processes. Based on the conducted research, it can be stated that the process of servicization occurs in both developed post-industrial economies and increasingly often in developing countries. Moreover, the analysis of the relationship between the general level of innovation in the economy and the degree of its servicization, showed that in many countries higher innovation is often associated with a stronger role of the service sector in the economy. The dynamics of structural change taking place in the “deagrarianization-deindustrialization-servicization” chain is therefore substantially influenced by technological progress.

scholarly journals The role of municipalities in ensuring economic security of the Russian regions

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Vladimir Gavrilovich Starovoitov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Security Indicators

The subject of this research is the state of economic security of municipalities and their role in ensuring economic security of the Russian regions. The object of this research is provision of economic security of the Russian regions. The article employs the methods of qualitative, quantitative and multi-criteria analysis for ranking regions and municipalities, as well as the methods of systematization and generalization. The author substantiates the relevance of ensuring economic security on the regional and municipal levels due to the fact that the crucial socioeconomic processes associated with economic activity of an the individual and phenomena determining the quality of life take place namely in the regions and municipalities. The main conclusion consists in determination and application of the most significant scientific approaches and methodologies, as well as best organizational practice of ensuring economic security of the municipalities, which allows detecting the threats and threshold values of the indicators of economic security indicators, and improving the quality of assessment of their level of economic security. This enables the mobilization of municipalities in the activity of ensuring their economic security and socioeconomic development. Experience has proven that the level of economic activity and quality of life is growing in the regions, where municipalities successfully solve the issues of their economic security. The scientific novelty of this study consists in revealing and analyzing the currently most important results in the sphere of economic security of the regions and municipalities, as well as in outlining the promising directions of research and their use in solution of the issues of economic security and socioeconomic development of the Russian regions and municipalities.

scholarly journals Rapid City Collective Impact: A City-Wide Effort to Create Quality of Life for All Its Citizens

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Linderman
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Collective Impact ◽  
Systems Dynamics ◽  
Cultural Anthropologist ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rapid City ◽  
The City

In Rapid City, South Dakota, community, business, nonprofit, and faith communities leaders, along with a number of citizens across all demographics, are collaborating in a unique plan to create quality of life for all its citizens. Named Rapid City Collective Impact (RCCI), this initiative began with the vision of several local philanthropists and has expanded quickly throughout the community. Cultural anthropologist Albert Linderman along with expertise from community based systems dynamics experts Don Greer, Megan Odenthal, and Christine Capra have formed a facilitative “backbone” organization for RCCI. Based on the model for “Collective Impact” made popular by an article by a Stanford Innovation Review article by authors John Kania and Mark Kramer, organizations and programs serving Rapid City citizens are committed to significantly increasing the amount of collaboration occurring within the social service sector, while business and other community leaders work to leverage newly understood leverage points within the intersecting systems of the city which often limits ability to address entrenched social issues.

QUALITY OF LIFE AND FORMATION OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE MEANINGFUL VALUES

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-36
Author(s):  
Angela Zelenschi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Organizational Environment ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Organizational Mission ◽  
Contemporary Life

The article is devoted to the representations of the quality of life in various fields of sociohumanistic sciences, influenced by the dynamics and evolution of such disciplines. The article tackles the quality of life as a mechanism of social development, whereas the formation of values in the organizational environment is analyzed throughout its contribution to the development of human potential and the achievement of the organizational mission, both requiring standards of quality. The philosophical analysis of the essence and content of the quality of life category offered the possibility to reveal its ontological, axiological and ethical aspects.

The Role of Culture in City Branding

2017 ◽  
pp. 227-244
Author(s):  
Selda Uca Ozer
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
International Strategy ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
The City

City branding means all types of image development studies for a city in order to attract more visitors, raise the quality of life and awareness of the city and provide development etc. Today, the increasing competition among the cities has made city branding a necessity. There are different strategies implemented for city branding. The mostly used strategy among those is the culture-focused branding studies. Culture has a critical importance for city branding and it is used as an international strategy for the economic, social and environmental renovation of cities. Marketing the cultural city sources and activities in an efficient way and branding the city accordingly have become increasingly important. In this chapter, the role and importance of culture which is one of the most important strategies used in city branding has been discussed in detail. Also, the cases of cultural cities which become successfully different from their rivals with their cultural heritage and the strategies implemented in these cases have been analyzed.

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