SOCIAL FACILITIES: RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS AND DIRECTIONS OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT

The purpose of the study is to determine the importance of social infrastructure for a modern city and to identify ways of its urban development (on the example of the city of Moscow). We used statistical data (from official municipal and regional sources), the results of a systemic, typological, functional-structural analysis, and a sociological survey of the population. An assessment of the current challenges of the development of society, an analysis of scientific research in the field of economics, education, and culture allowed the author to determine the importance of social infrastructure for a modern city as a tool for transforming the urban environment, improving the quality of human capital, and strengthening the economic basis of the city. The author proposes a periodization of the development of the social infrastructure of Moscow from the moment of the formation of the USSR in 1922 to the present with the identification of basic political and economic tasks that determined the role and directions of development of the sphere of cultural and community services. In the conditions of the existing structural deformations of the system of cultural and community services for the population, the lack of territorial resources in the areas of existing development, ways to improve the social infrastructure are proposed, including planning optimization of the territory, clarification of the typology and structure of public centers, development of a model of the functional and spatial organization of the service system, methods of intensifying the use of the territory , taking into account the sociological factor, monitoring the level of urban development of social infrastructure. The scientific novelty of this study is the study of the socio-economic basis of the SI problems in various periods of the development of the city of Moscow, the identification of unique modern sociological, planning conditions for its functioning, the development of a system of scientific and methodological approaches to its improvement