Formation of the spatial development strategy for an agro-industrial region: modernization of approaches

The need to update and develop new provisions of the policyof regional social and economic development as a centre-peripheral system is determined bythe impossibilitytoensure balanced social and economicdevelopment and smooth spatial development of central and peripheral territories onlywithin the framework of the long-term strategy and programmes of social and economic development. The factor of economic space, its qualitative characteristics, as well as life-affirming properties in the context of the transition to the post-industrial paradigm of economic dynamics began to perform a much larger range of functions than just a topographic placement of economic agents within the framework of the concept of physical and metric use of elements of space. This circumstance can nolonger be ignored in the framework of regulating interterritorial proportions and developing adequate approaches ensuring the equal spatial and economic development of the relevant centre-peripheral systems. The inclusion of the center-periphery conditions into the processes of forming and implementing the regional social and economic policymakes it necessaryto look at the problems and order of regional strategic targeting from another point of view. This process, i.e. the process of strategy development, as well as the resulting strategic document of regional perspective development, is quintessential of the general philosophy and ideological concept of development of the region taking into account its spatial position, specialization of economy and specificity of the center-peripheral architecture within the region. The article justifies the relevance of developing new approaches to the formation of a strategy of regional spatial development for the territories ofthecentral-peripheral typeor agricultural and industrial regions. It details theprinciples ofstrategydevelopment, the recommended diagnostic procedures used in the development of the strategy document, as well as the technological routing of the strategy development process and its key components. The presented scientific results have practical value within the implementation of the policyofspatial development ofagricultural and industrial regions.