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ECOLOGICAL URBANISM, URBAN ECONOMY AND POLICIES FOR BUILDING SUSTAINABLE CITIES OF THE FUTURE

Metodi Ivanov

Abstract

With this article, the author will try to outline the relationship between environmental urbanism, the urban economy and policies to build sustainable cities of the future. Given that worldwide attention is being paid to the problems of climate change, which go hand in hand with the creation of sustainable architecture, which uses green technologies to build a modern city, where the application of the environmental approach is seen as a means of healing and planning the modern city of the future. The emerging trend of increasing population in economically active centers worldwide determines the development of the entire economy of each country, including Bulgaria. And so in the formed, economically active centers many interesting processes take place, determining the rhythm of the economic everyday life of a huge part of the city's population, which requires a detailed analysis justifying the process of forming policies for building sustainable cities of the future. It is for the creation of sustainable cities of the future that it is necessary to implement spatial strategic planning, which should include the basic concepts and concepts based on ecological urbanism, green and circular economy in order to overcome the chaos in urban development, especially in Eastern Europe. For example, the chaotic development of tourism in the Burgas region creates the emergence of unsolvable problems, despite the fact that there has been an increase in visits. Creating the right infrastructure must be seen as one of the most important prerequisites for attracting strategic investors. On the other hand, we should not ignore the fact that in a number of sectors there is a shortage of staff, who are expelled from small settlements by low pay, from lack of economic opportunities for realization on the labor market. As well as the slow pace with which small settlements are developing and local problems are being solved, which require active and thinking local government. Urbanization in Europe is a growing phenomenon, both in terms of increasing urban space and in terms of the growing share of the population. Urban growth has different dimensions, in every country in the world, and the line between urban and rural areas is increasingly blurred. Especially given that in recent years there has been a tendency to significantly increase the share of suburban areas compared to the level of development of traditional central urban areas. This process implies to pay additional attention on the one hand to the process of developing new strategies and tools for planning and forecasting for the development and creation of sustainable links between rural and urban land use, and on the other hand to look for opportunities to meet modern challenges for the protection of the environment and the building of sustainable cities of the future. A number of cities in the country and the world face various challenges related to social, economic and environmental problems arising from the increasing importance of factors - overcrowding, social inequality, pollution, increased traffic, etc. Therefore, one of the main challenges to the development of modern sustainable cities of the future, on the one hand is to achieve a balance between population density and compactness of cities, and on the other hand to improve the quality of life in building and maintaining a healthy urban environment. Significant attention must be paid to the process of integrating policies at national, regional and local levels in the application of new forms of urban planning and management to reap the full benefits of urbanization.

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