Socio-Political Interaction of Local Communities with the Authorities on the Improvement of the Urban Environment (on the Example of the City of Kemerovo)

   Relevance. At present urban development projects of various levels are being formed, including with the participation of local communities. Local communities and authorities that interact to improve the urban space form new fields and forms of communication to solve the social problems of the territory. The inclusion of communities in communication and interaction with the authorities is carried out in several ways, which depend on the age and professional characteristics of the participants, the experience of participating in urban life.
   The purpose of this article is to characterize the forms of socio-political interaction of local communities with the authorities on the improvement of the urban environment.
   Objectives: to describe local communities as participants in socio-political interaction with the authorities; to substantiate the prevailing forms of interaction between the communities of Kemerovo and local authorities on issues of urban development and improvement of the urban environment.
   Methodology. The methodological basis of the study is the work of Zh. T. Toshchenko, L. L. Shpak and others, revealing the issues of socio-political interaction, the concept of urban development by A. Lefebvre, D. Harvey, G. Sanoff. To analyze the interaction practices, the authors of the article used the methods of focus group interviews and questionnaires.
   Results. The analysis made it possible to describe the forms of interaction built in accordance with the characteristics of social groups, interests, goals and tools used, methods for achieving them, disposition to interact with other communities of the territory.
   Conclusions. The selected forms of interaction (resistance, impact and inaction) take into account the peculiarities of group participation in projects for the development of the territory, contribute to the accumulation of experience and in the future can be used in the practice of improving territories and attracting the city's population to them.

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