Functional Effectiveness and Modern Mechanisms for National Urban Systems Globalization

Cities' transformation into active actors of international economic relations, and their participation in international competition forms a complex of problems with efficiency of the relationships between business and government, global competitive advantages of urban economies, quality of municipal governance, development and international integration of the urban system of the modern countries (including Russia). This chapter examines a development of the modern features of the urban system in Russia, analyzes its macroeconomic indicators, actual problems, and evaluates various scenarios for the development of both individual urban economies and the entire urban system of Russia.