Shopping facilities as a factor in polycentric urban development: Problems and prospects

Abstract

The aim of the study is to develop the conceptual provisions and practical recommendations for the urban territory development on the principles of polycentricity using shopping centers as public and business spaces of attraction for the uniform distribution of transport load and more efficient performance of various urban functions. Theoretical studies were carried out using the methods of analysis and synthesis of the existing scientific developments in the field of modern cities' territorial and urban organization. According to the study results, the following issues have been obtained: - the main provisions and results of the evolution studies of the cities' poly centralization have been summarized; - the need for the development of conceptual images and approaches to the modern municipal urban planning management based on polycentrism has been proved; - the effectiveness of a polycentric urban space compared with monocentric urban space has been substantiated; - the recommendations for improving the spatial organization of a large city based on the use of shopping centers as the multicentric urban model's core have been given.