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00:00:00of Europe, then Yevgeny Zolotov became second, and Tatyana Klimovich
00:00:04and Elena Furman took gold.
00:00:07Preserving folk traditions is one of the features of Belarusian
00:00:10culture, as well as rituals, natural monuments. Today is
00:00:14Honey Savior, believers bless the harvest of their apiaries
00:00:18strive to their roots. Crowded, it is on this day
00:00:21on the Blue Krinitsa, in Slavgorod district. There is
00:00:25a belief that the water here is healing. Today, a
00:00:28cross service was held on the spot.
00:00:48arrived from Vitebsk, specifically came here to the Blue
00:00:51Krinitsa, when you enter the Krinitsa, it simply
00:00:55takes your breath away, the main measure, because we somehow are in the
00:00:59center of Europe. The only ones left who
00:01:02supported it. With God's grace to all. Happy
00:01:04holiday. Here a fair also unfolded,
00:01:08local cheesemakers and beekeepers offer their treats.
00:01:11пчеловоды.
00:01:13Next is the weather forecast, and in a few minutes, don't miss the current
00:01:17interview. The abolition of the Black Code, France's colonial
00:01:20past.
00:03:14The first region, the first in everything, how many smart
00:03:18gadgets are needed, yes, to say that the city has become smart, here I
00:03:21live in my district, here is my house, here is my shop, some kind of
00:03:25resort message, I already imagine myself, to be
00:03:28honest, this is not Pinsk, this is Mikashevichi,
00:03:32this is expensive, in our area they don't ring, but they call, paraphrasing
00:03:35the classics, the culture of construction appears, something very
00:03:38architectural sounded, the budget, it is not rubber,
00:03:42what was it, just a lot of material accumulated.
00:04:04Hello, this is Palitra, a program about people whose ideas are born before
00:04:08our eyes to become part of the creative economy. Today in
00:04:11our studio is Nikolay Vlasyuk, an expert in urban planning,
00:04:15who knows how to turn a city into a brand. Nikolay Nikolaevich,
00:04:18glad to see you. Good afternoon. Nikolay
00:04:22Vlasyuk, chief architect of the Brest region, professor
00:04:25of Brest State Technical University. The first in Belarus
00:04:28developed the concept of turnkey urban spatial development. According to his
00:04:32ideas, by 2050 Brest will be transformed into a garden city at the intersection of
00:04:36nature and technology, his experience is applied in other countries. An adept
00:04:40of theory in practice about how space shapes a person.
00:04:43Believes that every settlement in Belarus needs
00:04:47its own unique face.
00:04:50Nikolay Nikolaevich, it is no coincidence that the color scheme of our studio today is green, because
00:04:54we will talk a lot with you about how to harmoniously connect
00:04:58nature, technology. I really hope that as an expert in
00:05:02urban planning and an expert in the field of
00:05:05smart approach, among other things, you will reveal this topic, but I
00:05:08propose to start with such an important block, which is called the path:
00:05:13as an architect, you will understand, this is the foundation, uh-huh, right now
00:05:16we are moving to this block.
00:05:20Nikolay Nikolaevich, today your knowledge, your experience, ideas
00:05:23are implemented not only in Belarus, but in Russia, in Kazakhstan,
00:05:27a unique fate from the point of view that in general, even the paths
00:05:30in architecture could have been different for you, I mean even
00:05:33geographical, you became the youngest architect of the city of
00:05:37Minsk in your time, yes you had the opportunity to generally stay in
00:05:40Minsk, but chose Brest.
00:05:43and that is, you returned to your native Brest, we remember that you are a
00:05:46Brest resident in the third generation already, so what was
00:05:49it, because everyone always strives for Minsk one way or another, yes, everyone
00:05:53thinks that Minsk is the peak of a career,
00:05:56but you did otherwise, this is also the uniqueness of your choice, you know,
00:06:00probably, well, how it happened, a good theoretical base was
00:06:03formed, that is, working at the urban planning
00:06:06institute allowed to have
00:06:09an idea of modern trends in urban planning.
00:06:12urbanism and I
00:06:15assumed that working in Minsk would allow to implement some approaches
00:06:18fairly quickly, modern trends,
00:06:22but after working in the city, I realized
00:06:25that in a small city or in a regional
00:06:29center, in my native city, implementing my
00:06:32ideas and approaches would not be easier, because
00:06:36the connection between the mayor of the city and the chief
00:06:39architect is very important, therefore. when an offer came
00:06:43from the mayor of Brest to come to Brest
00:06:47in a single team to work on the fact that
00:06:51the city is preparing for its millennium, in general there was such a carte blanche for
00:06:54trying to implement those
00:06:58ideas that exist, for example, in Brest, I
00:07:02took advantage of this opportunity and returned to my hometown, if
00:07:05you even look today at the approaches, well, in the same
00:07:09Europe, not all Germans strive to move to
00:07:12Berlin to live, yes, there are many cities, there
00:07:16Dresden, there Leipzig and so on and
00:07:18so forth, which have some kind of their own feature, their own
00:07:22trick, that is, whether it's in Dresden, the Dresden
00:07:25Gallery or there Oktoberfest, and what is our
00:07:29problem today, that Minsk as a magnet pulls all
00:07:32resources from the republic, small
00:07:36cities and villages are emptying, the number of
00:07:39residents is decreasing, they are collected by regional centers, from regional centers... they go to
00:07:42the capital, but, but you have a solution, and it was
00:07:46announced, yes, yes, the topic that Minsk is not rubber, it's true,
00:07:50even the head of state said that enough of bloating Minsk,
00:07:54so the topic of Minsk agglomeration of satellite cities appeared,
00:07:57so today we actively talk about the need to
00:08:01develop identity, branding and
00:08:04rethinking of regional cities, regional
00:08:07centers, and today there is a program of cities 80+, cities with
00:08:11accelerated...
00:08:43and of course it's more important,
00:08:47it's more important to adhere to your
00:08:50mentality, but nevertheless to understand that the world is moving
00:08:53forward, and you cannot lag behind the world, you need to keep up with the times,
00:08:57well, if we even talk about specific examples, then
00:09:00China is very actively developing in this regard, they have
00:09:03more than 500 cities already operating under the smart approach
00:09:07system, and moreover, it formed the basis of
00:09:10China's state program.
00:09:12At our level, something could certainly be done, we also,
00:09:16of course, have the topic of smart cities, a state program for
00:09:20the development of smart cities, much has been done at different
00:09:24levels, but sometimes I joke, I say, which city is smarter,
00:09:27let's compare, so, Kobrin or Pinsk,
00:09:31so, Minsk or Grodno, how will we
00:09:34compare, compare which city is smarter, where there are more smart technologies,
00:09:37smart services, how many smart gadgets are needed, yes,
00:09:41to say that... it became smart, or are there other criteria, and
00:09:45the very idea of a smart city is not to
00:09:48cram the city with these gadgets, these gadgets will already be watching
00:09:52you, but to have feedback from the residents of the city, smart
00:09:55technologies are not a sign of an equal smart city, feedback,
00:09:58rather here I consider it a more important component, because it seems to me that
00:10:02in any city, the most important capital is human capital, that is, all
00:10:06cities are fighting for people, in Brest, before
00:10:10we... started working on the general plan of the city, before the millennium
00:10:13of the city, we decided to go a little differently,
00:10:16before the start of
00:10:19the design, we hung two maps in the city's info center:
00:10:23in green, the places that need to be preserved, in red, the places
00:10:27that need to be corrected, this was generally a
00:10:30marker for the city mayor's office, for the city
00:10:34administration, to see in what priority urban planning
00:10:37policy needs to be built,
00:10:39and local residents began to say that we want more bike paths,
00:10:43we want it to be a green city, we want to have more
00:10:47parks, that we have a concert hall, we want, that
00:10:50is, this is the request of residents. All
00:10:54this strategy formed the basis of the city's general
00:10:57plan, and the city's general plan fixed with its regulations, already,
00:11:01which have legal status, and was
00:11:04approved by the head of state and is mandatory for
00:11:07execution.
00:11:11our next block starts with the author in the most correct way, because the author
00:11:14is sitting opposite me, Nikolay Nikolaevich Vlasyuk, the author of this
00:11:18scientific work, I'm not afraid of that word, quite weighty, and this is
00:11:22the Brest strategy, a garden city, why? It was
00:11:25Brest, why did it have indications to become a garden
00:11:29city? It is probably the only, or a very rare
00:11:33city in Belarus that was moved to a new place, during
00:11:37the construction of the fortress, a thousand-year-old city in the middle of the 19th century
00:11:41was moved one and a half kilometers to the east, and
00:11:44block development was formed by military engineers, where
00:11:48city boulevards alternate with streets, and they
00:11:52did it when it was not yet a mainstream, as it's called.
00:12:03developed at the end of the 19th century, that
00:12:06is, 50 years later than Brest, the same
00:12:09center, park, today - this is a fortress, and
00:12:13block development radiates with a comfortable scale, so
00:12:17this somehow inspired the theme of the garden
00:12:20city, this is certainly not the garden city in
00:12:55a single framework, in a single strategy, and what
00:12:58is good is that it was also possible to fix all this in the scheme of greened
00:13:01areas of the city, this is also such
00:13:04a mandatory urban planning project today, which
00:13:08regulates the presence and percentage of green
00:13:12zones in the city, today for the Brest region, we have developed,
00:13:15we have developed in 5 years for all
00:13:19district centers, these schemes of separated territories, if I am not
00:13:22mistaken, there is even such a world standard, it is clear that not all countries
00:13:26can afford it, but it seems to me that Belarus is among them, when you know,
00:13:30a person has 10 minutes to the park, yes, there is a concept of
00:13:33a fifteen-minute pedestrian city or
00:13:36a ten-minute one, and we also strive for this,
00:13:40we basically have all the prerequisites, the Soviet
00:13:43school, despite the fact that there is criticism, but
00:13:47the service system itself was built
00:13:50quite competently, and the radii of accessibility were correctly
00:13:54selected in... in the walking distance zone of schools, kindergartens,
00:13:57polyclinics, shops, today we only
00:14:00need to simply give gloss and comfort,
00:14:03quality to this environment that we inherited, well,
00:14:07everything new that is built, to form it in a new quality.
00:14:11How did you feel that Brest could be made
00:14:13into a brand? Well, you know, there are still prerequisites
00:14:17- returning to Brest, you feel
00:14:21a comfortable environment, large-scale development of the historical
00:14:24center. There is a river, lots of
00:14:27greenery, boulevards, you come to Sochi
00:14:30or Odessa, yes, some kind of resort
00:14:33message, and we analyzed this concept of a southern
00:14:37capital, we found that Brest is in the same climatic zone
00:14:41as Prague, that is, almost southern
00:14:45Europe, and if you look at the
00:14:48vegetation, we have very, well, the vegetation is quite
00:14:51scarce, we have very little vertical landscaping. The same
00:14:55ivy, there wisteria, there, well, maiden
00:14:58grapes, a lot of plants that could be
00:15:01a symbol of the city, like chestnut for Brest, there is a medal,
00:15:05so, a thousand years to Brest, a symbol, a logo,
00:15:09so, it's a chestnut leaf, uh-huh, for example, the
00:15:12embankment could have been decorated, and we have already started to decorate it with Crimean
00:15:16pines, these are pines with large needles,
00:15:19or, for example, planted an alley of Magnolias, where else in Belarus is there
00:15:23an alley of magnolias or...
00:17:07countries of the southern part, also such gates in the form of a business center, in
00:17:11the form of a modern hotel, such a
00:17:14development is gradually being built, which well, says that
00:17:18the city today has a modern look, in fact, this
00:17:21new modern avenue, besides the embankment, we realized that there are already very
00:17:25serious shifts in this, a city garden appeared, which, by the way, is also a very
00:17:28remarkable place, it seems to me, for citizens and guests of Brest, and
00:17:32what else is currently being implemented? In each
00:17:36direction, some progress has been made, if we talk about the
00:17:39historical center, then,
00:17:43uh, so, between the fortress and
00:17:46the city was the Esplanade territory, this is a territory that was not
00:17:49built up, in the Soviet period, it became
00:17:53an industrial zone, and
00:17:55there was a river port, there is a CHP, there was
00:17:59transshipment, there were some warehouse territories, and so,
00:18:02today there is an active transformation of this territory into a public space,
00:18:06this is the topic of reno.
00:19:37But I think the time has come when
00:19:40we should still address
00:19:42the person,
00:19:45I would really like to focus on the fact that you really have such
00:19:49a human-centered approach, generally a lot of vitality in the projects that
00:19:52you develop, it is clear that this
00:19:56slogan, everything for people, yes, can be rethought
00:19:59a little differently, if we are talking about microdistricts, even
00:20:03sleeping areas, people still
00:20:06would like to... yes, talk about how in our area they don't call, but
00:20:10they do call, paraphrasing the classic and so on, but nevertheless there is a request
00:20:14for such a well-thought-out ecosystem, that I live in my area, here
00:20:17is my house, here is my shop, here I have a playground,
00:20:21parking, some other things, maybe we will analyze with you concrete examples,
00:20:25but if we talk initially about the Soviet
00:20:29period, this is modernism, this is
00:20:32rigid functional zoning, home, work,
00:20:35home, two places, so, so, a third one appears,
00:20:39appears, now we are talking about yes, about the approach,
00:20:42the humane approach, when a third public space appears,
00:20:46when there is home, work and there is a third place where we can...
00:20:50relax or meet or after work, so,
00:20:53play sports, so today's trends are not rigid
00:20:57functional zoning, but a mixture of all territories, all zones, and
00:21:00not to make this monounction of this sleeping bag, this
00:21:04sleeping microdistrict, which also creates pendulum
00:21:08migration, so the idea of identity was proposed,
00:21:12each residential area should have its own face, each new block
00:21:15should have its own toponymy or some kind of
00:21:19memory of the place.
00:22:20Brezhestroy, our house-building plant also met us halfway and
00:22:24developed specialized series of corner sections, so that
00:22:28it would be possible to form block development and such
00:22:31city houses, single-entrance houses, towers, uh
00:22:35also, so that there was variability, uh-huh, but
00:22:38industrial housing construction has a lot of
00:22:41advantages, but it simply lacks variability
00:22:44of puzzles - from which you can assemble in various
00:22:48this environment, different in height,
00:22:52different in architecture, how to create this environment from cubes, in addition to
00:22:55identity and navigation, the topic of an accessible environment, yes, it is very
00:22:59important, by the way, we are still revolving around the topic of Soviet heritage,
00:23:03it turns out that all these steep entrances, when you know,
00:23:06they are on a hill, and you still have to climb up the stairs or
00:23:10carry a stroller, it's a whole quest, they couldn't cope with this
00:23:14topic for a long time, and well, they started with what, they started building ramps, we had
00:23:17complaints. so from residents, that children gather on the
00:23:21ramp of the first floor watching TV, so in the
00:23:24kitchen on the first floor,
00:23:27этаже,
00:23:30yes, it was necessary to simply rework the sections to make, so
00:23:33an additional possibility for the elevator to go down half a floor
00:23:37to zero with, so, the
00:23:40entrance, we solved the problem of this inviting march for
00:23:44half a floor, which fully today the elevator fully solves
00:23:48the problems of inaccessibility.
00:24:20or Asian, my approach is that we need to create more
00:24:23transport bypasses around the city, transport corridors, where
00:24:26you can quickly get with noise barriers for such
00:24:29high-speed highways, and the city center, of course, should give
00:24:33priority to pedestrians, cyclists, but the idea is to
00:24:36get from one district to another,
00:24:39ideally through a green area, through a green corridor,
00:24:42along a boulevard, along a bike path, along the embankment,
00:24:46even, well, ideally without crossing.
00:25:20construction of so many kilometers of roads, but we are not
00:25:23talking about quality, will these square meters be comfortable,
00:25:26will these roads solve the problems of city connectivity,
00:25:30so today there are not enough qualitative criteria in
00:25:33evaluating
00:25:34the work of
00:25:37city authorities, there are even indicators from our neighbors, right,
00:25:41they have been working on this principle for at least the last few years, that
00:25:44is, they evaluate the quality of life, the level of happiness even to
00:25:48some extent, if.
00:26:16and an assessment can be made for the city authorities not only in terms of the implementation of these
00:26:20square meters, but how much your city has become better,
00:26:23because if a city becomes bigger, it doesn't mean it becomes
00:26:27better,
00:26:30we are very smoothly moving to... a block called
00:26:34ideas, and of course I cannot but recall to start this
00:26:38block with your quote that cities are in
00:26:40general like people, yes, they are all different and each should have its own
00:26:44highlight, and we are finally approaching your very
00:26:47responsible mission, which you are now occupying, probably all your not only
00:26:51working, but also free time, this is the development of small cities, so
00:26:55let's discuss with you using the example of Mikashevichi, let's approach it unusually,
00:26:59what is the highlight of Mikashevichi, according to last year's
00:27:02harvest festival in the city
00:27:05and
00:27:07what makes Mikashevichi special, it is a single-industry town,
00:27:11the town has a specialized enterprise, it is
00:27:14granite, which mines here in the
00:27:17town, next to the town there is a large quarry, the size of, imagine,
00:27:20a hole the size of a town, where there are waterfalls,
00:27:24so, separate excursions, tourists come, this is such an industrial
00:27:28tourism, to see them here we will meet them, we are waiting for them with
00:27:31an architectural solution. When the task was, for example, for the harvest festival, to create
00:27:34a concept, a city, streets, what did we take as a basis?
00:27:38We took this stone, granite, of which they have a lot,
00:27:42they, of course, are all tired of this granite, but when
00:27:45tourists come, it's interesting for them to see, and we made small
00:27:48architectural forms, we made gabions, benches, even there
00:27:51construction equipment on so, on the ends of buildings, this
00:27:55industrial industry of this city, it
00:27:58well, as if designates it, uh-huh.
00:28:02that it is a unique city, and this is not Kobrin, this is not
00:28:06Pinsk, this is Mikashevichi, they are recognizable, no matter where you
00:28:09take photos, so,
00:28:12Mikashevichi, the residents and administration also didn't understand at first, they were
00:28:16tired of these stones, but when
00:28:18we did it, the theme was liked, we made
00:28:22a park, we made these facade ends, we landscaped the street, we also made
00:28:26an observation deck on the quarry, a new modern platform
00:28:29in the form of a pavilion, we even wanted to make it over the quarry with
00:28:33such, so, a panorama, well, we moved away a little for safety
00:28:36purposes, but nevertheless we designated our
00:28:40identity in the city, and today we are talking about the fact that we
00:28:43are engaged in the first region, branding of the region, we have
00:28:47such a creative team, the governor's assistant, very actively
00:28:51promotes this topic, and the Bison Museum, this hashtag
00:28:54first region, it is officially registered, first region,
00:28:58first in everything, and such an idea, how... to build a matryoshka, this
00:29:02hierarchy - these brandings from the regional
00:29:05center to the cities of intra-regional subordination,
00:29:09district centers and towns, so that
00:29:11each city thinks about what makes it special, so, if we
00:29:15talk about Pinsk - it is historical development,
00:29:19a unique environment, a pedestrian street and generally Pinsk is the capital
00:29:22of Polissya, so Pinchuki with their own mentality, with their
00:29:26own character, yes, and if we talk today about Pripyat, about
00:29:30Polissya, yes. then also an absolutely unpromoted
00:29:33topic, if if we know about Belovezhskaya Pushcha
00:29:37and many know, they come here, the Brest fortress
00:29:41and Belovezhskaya Pushcha, then Polissya is the potential
00:29:44that has not yet been fully revealed, somewhere
00:29:47we heard about Herodotus' sea, so a lot of festivals are appearing
00:29:51now, now a bridge is being built between Luninets
00:29:54and Stolin, and today we are also discussing how
00:29:58to transform the territory where there used to be a ferry.
00:30:01пором.
00:30:32yes, they will take over, but they realized that city administrations are used to
00:30:36being told what to do, and we unobtrusively pointed it out, under the
00:30:39signature of the deputy governor, so, letters were sent out,
00:30:43that all cities should develop their own
00:30:46design code, submit it to the urban planning council,
00:30:49consider it by the beginning of next year, approve it, that
00:30:53is, a single concept of the city,
00:30:55the central part of the city, how advertising will be placed, what
00:30:59will be on the signs.
00:31:56this is the trick, and what else is interesting about it, it is interesting because it should
00:31:59attract people, that is, creative economy, and your
00:32:03program, it also talks about this, that I see many
00:32:07Russians even in Brest, when they come, they say: great, we
00:32:10are ready to live here, renting housing here is
00:32:13inexpensive, it's comfortable to work here, the internet
00:32:17allows it, there are good people here, all conditions are met, and
00:32:21we, well, these are human resources, you can develop
00:32:24industry, 100% important,
00:32:27an important element, and you can develop a creative
00:32:30economy and invite in this way, this is also
00:32:33a high-quality environment, it is a driver of urban development and
00:32:37a driver of economic development,
00:32:39undervalued.
00:32:43Well, and what, in your opinion, a little bit?
00:34:15serious and expanded, so that the head of the city administration
00:34:18more clearly understood what urban planning documentation is, what
00:34:22regulations are, what a detailed plan is, what a
00:34:25strategy is, and how generally the interaction
00:34:28between the resident and the city authorities works, how to build
00:34:32this dialogue, because all these are such fine
00:34:35settings, fine mechanisms,
00:34:39and let's say, today during public discussion, we still
00:34:42have a misunderstanding when residents.
00:35:15the beginning of the journey, when urbanologists appear, this is exactly the
00:35:18group of people who can be this
00:35:21link between residents and city authorities, or
00:35:25the deputy corps can also take on this function,
00:35:28translate, so, the requests of residents, combine and
00:35:32so, translate to the city authorities and from the city authorities
00:35:36explain to residents what is planned here, why
00:35:39it is necessary to densify the city, that it is not to
00:35:42its detriment, but that the task of
00:35:46the mayor of the city is to make the city efficient, well, yes, that is, that this action has a certain
00:35:49meaning, I, in this regard, would even honestly act without intermediaries,
00:35:53I would say that this is exactly, you know, as they say, there is a meme, this is needed
00:35:57by your mother, your father, you, in general, urbanism is needed by everyone, it's like about
00:36:00doctor, you don't discuss sometimes whether to have
00:36:04an operation with a doctor or not, he says you need to cut, because he is
00:36:08a specialist in this, we
00:36:11can express our opinion, but yes, there are specialists who.
00:36:18And what does an architect risk in general, this name, reputation,
00:36:21is definitely at stake, it's important for you, for example, that somewhere under
00:36:25the project is written Nikolayk. native
00:36:27city this
00:36:31reputational component is very important and
00:36:34there are different approaches in the world, as it were, the Soviet approach was that
00:36:38the chief architect of the city, he could
00:36:40cross out the project that he was brought and say,
00:36:44here you need to draw another facade, I'm not satisfied,
00:36:47his subjective opinion could prevail,
00:36:51let's see how it was, for example, there, I don't know, in the same Europe, imagine
00:36:54that Sir Norman Foster comes to...
00:37:27and today we are at such a transitional stage, either we switch to
00:37:31the fact that here is the author's architecture and the author's
00:37:34design will bear responsibility, the one who
00:37:37designs, then I vote with both hands
00:37:41for us to write the authorship
00:37:43of the architect who designed this building, we will not have faceless
00:37:47buildings, because rare architects will agree to sign under
00:37:50a building with poor
00:37:52architecture,
00:37:55we are already today with your conversation...
00:38:27main ambitions, based on
00:38:30this. From the point of view of affordable housing in Belarus, I believe everything is very
00:38:34good, from the point of view of social housing, affordable housing,
00:38:37we are in a good rating we are in,
00:38:41but again, we should not stop at what has been achieved, and
00:38:45further we should improve, here, probably, qualitatively
00:38:48improve, maybe the introduction of new urban planning
00:38:51documentation, today we officially only have
00:38:54general plans and detailed plans of urban development. documentation
00:38:58in Russia and Europe today there is such a
00:39:01concept as a master plan or here again the strategy
00:39:05of spatial development, which is more mobile
00:39:08it responds faster to the challenges of time, everyone understands what
00:39:12is at stake, what vector of development of this city, this settlement,
00:39:15it is not hidden behind these regulations,
00:39:19incomprehensible general plan, but it is clear and publicly available
00:39:22in open access, so most likely, that's
00:39:26what you need... take all the best, identify
00:39:29the potential of our small towns, our regional centers, in
00:39:33order for each of our cities to have its own characteristics, to be
00:39:36comfortable and attractive, here I have such a question, imagine, you understand that every day
00:39:40there is something to work on, but
00:39:432050 comes, when we understand that this
00:39:47strategy, yes, the concept, more precisely, developed by you, it
00:39:51has been implemented, God willing, so it will be, you walk, well,
00:39:54for example, along Sovetskaya Street in Brest. What
00:39:58do you feel at this moment? and this is a vision, in
00:40:02the strategy there is a vision, in it, in principle, it is described in sufficient detail
00:40:05what I feel when I walk around the city
00:40:08in 30 years, I walk around a
00:40:11comfortable city, where the city is pedestrian, where there are many
00:40:15terraces, where there is fresh air, where the smell
00:40:18of phytoncides, meaning from coniferous trees that
00:40:22grow in this city, people play sports,
00:40:25people go to fewer clinics. people run
00:40:28more, ride bicycles,
00:40:32here there is an opportunity, if we talk about
00:40:35a creative city - this is a city that gives people
00:40:38the opportunity to develop and be
00:40:41needed, there are some separate topics here, like growth points,
00:40:44economy, green framework, residential areas, you can
00:40:48go into details, but in general these are
00:40:51cities that help residents
00:40:54realize their potential have this vital.
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