Influence of globalization on evolution of town-planning planning culture

Methods of hard-line directive planning are becoming insufficient to meet the demanding tasks of urban development under conditions of globalization. The former models not only underestimated interests of the spatial wellbeing of places, but did not help to elaborate comprehensive approach to deal with the emerging environmental and socio-economic problems of contemporary cities. The analyses of the available observations and recently conducted researches help understand that the evolution of urban planning culture is determined by changes of goals definitions, procedural relationships and organizational forms of urban governance.