Monitoring as an instrument of Sustainable Urban Development

Abstract

The article considers the necessity of active implementation of monitoring, as a managerial instrument, into the process of urban development. It will provide the creation an effective informational support of sustainable development of the modern cities. Today the central part among them belongs to megacities. The presented research focuses on megacities from the positions of the most significant trends of globalization. On this basis the author makes a number of proposals in a framework of creation the monitoring system for effective informational support of sustainable urban development. The operation of this system corresponds to the basic foundations of the Information society and the modern conditions of postindustrial development.